rotorwash Posted June 27, 2017 Author Share Posted June 27, 2017 (edited) Sorry for the long update hiatus, but amazingly enough building three Hueys tales three times as long as building one! I have made a lot fo progress, but tonight I want to focus on the pilot seats. First up to refresh everyone's memory and so it will be here in the thread, here are the armored seats needed for virtually all Vietnam Hueys. Photos by Robert Brackenhoff, 174th AHC. Right seat: left seat: You can see that the small fixed armored pieces on the sides of the left and right seat are different shapes. Both are identical in the KH kit, however. First the main pieces of the KH armored seat. Pretty nice detail for 1/48. However, each part has a ejection pin mark, but at least they are on the inside of the parts. I filled in all the ejection pin marks with Tamiya white putty. Not a huge task, but as you can see, a necessary one. As you can see even the back of the armored shell has a pin mark that should be filled. So how does the KH seat compare to the other two kits? Try not to laugh too hard! KH on the right, Italeri middle and ESCI left. Not even a contest since only the KH seat looks remotely correct. This is the KH seat built straight form the box with no modifications. I wanted to see if I could duplicate the slid back armor plate correct for a parked Huey. I decided the easiest way to do this was to use a razor saw to remove the mounting tabs. I then mounted the tabs to the seat back and sanded the edges of the plate before re positioning it. OOB is to the right, modified to the left. I will mount one of each in the cockpit. Well that's the update for tonight. I have more done, but need to edit the images. The biggest issue with the seats in my opinion is the rather crude representation of the springs on the back, but a little scratch work would fix that right up. also I find the position of the armored plate OOB to not only be wrong for a parked Huey, but it sits a little wonky as well. that's the best way I know to describe it anyway. Ray Edited July 4, 2017 by rotorwash Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jabow Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 14 hours ago, rotorwash said: Sorry for the long update hiatus, but amazingly enough building three Hueys tales three times as long as building one! I have made a lot fo progress, but tonight I want to focus on the pilot seats. First up to refresh everyone's memory and so it will be here in the thread, here are the armored seats needed for virtually all Vietnam Hueys. Photos by Robert Brackenhoff, 174th AHC. Right seat: left seat: You can see that the small fixed armored pieces on the sides of the left and right seat are different shapes. Both are identical in the KH kit, however. First the main pieces of the KH armored seat. Pretty nice detail for 1/48. However, each part has a ejection pin mark, but at least they are on the inside of the parts. I filled in all the ejection pin marks with Tamiya white putty. Not a huge task, but as you can see, a necessary one. As you can see even the back of the armored shell has a pin mark that should be filled. So how does the KH seat compare to the other two kits? Try not to laugh too hard! KH on the right, Italeri middle and ESCI left. Not even a contest since only the KH seat looks remotely correct. This is the KH seat built straight form the box with no modifications. I wanted to see if I could duplicate the slid back armor plate correct for a parked Huey. I decided the easiest way to do this was to use a razor saw to remove the mounting tabs. I then mounted the tabs to the seat back and sanded the edges of the plate before re positioning it. OOB is to the right, modified to the left. I will mount one of each in the cockpit. Well that's the update for tonight. I have more done, but need to edit the images. The biggest issue with the seats in my opinion is the rather crude representation of the springs on the back, but a little scratch work would fix that right up. also I find the position of the armored plate OOB to not only be wrong for a parked Huey, but it sits a little wonky as well. that's the best way I know to describe it anyway. Ray Note the 'eye' of the shoulder harness. It's sewed using the same material as strap itself. Others used metal 'eye'. Both thread thru the needle of the lap belt and latched secured all. I flew with both kinds. Bo Demon 68 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rotorwash Posted July 4, 2017 Author Share Posted July 4, 2017 Holy crap, I think i finally have all the pics back in this thread. So sorry for all the trouble Photobucket is causing in these threads. Now i can finally go build something! back soon with an update. Ray Quote Link to post Share on other sites
snake36bravo Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Looking forward to the next update Ray. Finally, finally got my KH UH-1D in the mail this week. Beautifully done. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
K5054NZ Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Without wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth...bump? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rotorwash Posted August 1, 2017 Author Share Posted August 1, 2017 16 hours ago, K5054NZ said: Without wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth...bump? Roger that. Sorry, i got knocked off track when the Photobucket fiasco hit but i promise an update is coming shortly! Ray Quote Link to post Share on other sites
K5054NZ Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Not a problem, I had 12yr of photos to recover and re-upload myself! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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