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Two questions about a Coast Guard chopper
ubisuck
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Posted: Saturday, September 01, 2018 - 01:00 AM UTC
Last night, I watched Jack Ryan new series on Amazon Prime.

I saw a Coast Guard chopper, I'll add photos I took with Win10's capture tool.

Now I'd like to know the model and if someone makes one in 1/32 or 1/35

Thank you in advance



goofmuilwijk
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Posted: Saturday, September 01, 2018 - 01:14 AM UTC
I assume this would be a good place to start:
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/540401-academy-12120-sikorsky-mh-60s

But i'm sure there are more knowledgeable forum members who have an idea if there are any special modifications or after-market items needed to make it correct
PeeJay74
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Posted: Saturday, September 01, 2018 - 01:16 AM UTC
HH-60 Jayhawk, the Navy version is an SH-60 Seahawk. It's probably a good starting place but you'd need to source/scratch all of the rescue gear.
ubisuck
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Posted: Saturday, September 01, 2018 - 02:56 AM UTC
Goof & Paul, thank you for the answers
HeavyArty
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Posted: Saturday, September 01, 2018 - 11:15 AM UTC
Paul is correct that it is a USCG MH or HH-60J Jay Hawk. MH is the newer designation. Unfortunately, there is no 1/32 or 1/35 model of one. There is also no 1/32 or 1/35 model of a Navy Sea Hawk to base it on. I scratch/converted one from a UH-60A a while ago. Lots of work.

MH-60J conversion

There are 1/48 and 1/72 Jay Hawks though.


ubisuck
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Posted: Sunday, September 02, 2018 - 04:09 AM UTC
Thank you Gino
CaptnTommy
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Posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - 05:21 AM UTC
Just to confuse matters a bit....

for the 75th anniversary of the Coast Guard using Helicopters, they painted an MH-60J, in the 1950's orange scheme.

Google Coast Guard H-60 in "images".
Enjoy,
Captn Tommy
HeavyArty
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Posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - 05:28 AM UTC
It is/was actually yellow.


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Six MH-60 JAYHAWK helicopters have been repainted to resemble their Coast Guard livery from the 1950s to the 1970s in yellow.


pnance26
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Posted: Friday, October 19, 2018 - 11:30 AM UTC
That's cool but not as visible, is it?
HeavyArty
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Posted: Monday, October 22, 2018 - 06:54 AM UTC

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That's cool but not as visible, is it?


I don't know. It looks pretty visible against the blue sky.



Many countries use yellow SAR/Rescue helicopters.

Brittain


Canada


Germany


Norway
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