Over a year ago I printed a Huey with my 3d resin printer. You can read more about this here. Alas I didn’t have any door gunners. Now I got a few door gunners from Empress miniatures, sculpted by Paul Hicks.
And both in the 1/50 printed Huey. I think they work really nice in an 1/50 ship but also in a 1/48 one. Have a look here
Rubicon writes on facebook: Our “New Project of the Month” for December 2020… the Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey”. Another FIRST for Rubicon Models – something that is airborne! This will be a multi-sprue plastic kit in 1/56 scale covering the UH-1D and UH-1H variant. Final features are not confirmed but will include full interior, stretcher variant, and multiple weapon system support. That sounds really good and the renders look really promising:
That is a model to really look forward too. If it is done in the usual quality of the rubicon models this will be brilliant!
I finished the 1/50 models of the Bell UH-1C Huey and the flight stands . The only thing missing are the door gunners ( big hint Paul Hicks!!) Here are some pictures:
And a few pictures with some US Marines in a LZ:
Now to finish that village to have an objective for the Marines.
I did the main rotors and added some filters and dirt. The only thing missing now is a bit chipped paint here and there and a bit of gloss varnish on the windows.
I painted the white background of the “MARINES” lettering in the appropriate color.
Pictures of the finished Hueys soon
I starrtet to paint the 2 Hueys I printed. One as a medevac/dustoff chopper the other as a slick.
As you can see I used white decal paper. Not a good choice for the letters in “MARINE” as I have to pint in the proper background again ,but i had no clear decal paper available. Have to order some more. But for the other decals it worked quite nicely.
What is Vietnam wargaming without the iconic helicopters the US forces were using there. After painting up some Marines and NVA, VC figures I thought it would be time to build some choppers. The Marines used the UH-1C and the Sikorsky H34 during the first years of the conflict . I start with the UH-1C.
As I got two 3d printers a resin and a filament printer I tried to print a Huey on both of them and wanted to find out which printer would do the better job.
Here are pictures of the filament printed Huey:
As you can see you can see the printing lines quite clearly. I didn’t like that very much and they would have shown after painting even more. So I printed one in resin:
I like that one much more. So I will work with the resin printed ones. I started printing a second one and built a flight stand out of an old car antenna:
The chopper will be attached with a magnet.
More to come
Got myself this book to read up a bit about the specifications of the Huey for my Vietnam project. I have got 2 1/48 Bell UH-1D birds to build. Just waiting for Empress to release helicopter crew figures.
