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Kitty Hawk: Two New Naval Heloslitespeed
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Posted: Sunday, August 30, 2020 - 02:25 AM UTC
Kitty Hawk has announced two new Naval helicopters that are shipping to distributors now. Their 1/35 SH-60B and SH-60F are being shipped and should hit stores soon. Also, a third is in the works and should be ready soon too.
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HeavyArty
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Posted: Monday, August 31, 2020 - 03:24 AM UTC
Thanks for posting this Tim. These look really great to me. I can't wait for them and the rest of their planned 1/35 helicopters.
sardoc
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Posted: Monday, August 31, 2020 - 03:50 AM UTC
Sweet. My Navy SAR Corpsman blood pressure just went up with a plastic adrenaline rush!
HeavyArty
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Posted: Tuesday, September 08, 2020 - 03:36 AM UTC
Hopefully they will release an HH-60H soon too. These are almost there, but need the opening port side windows. Pretty much everything else is in these kits, and the HIRSS exhaust parts are already in the MH-60L and HH-60G kits. That could also allow for a USCG HH/MH-60J/T version as well (same basic fuselage as the HH-60H, just w/open exhausts). Fingers crossed.
USN HH-60H
USCG MH-60T
USN HH-60H
USCG MH-60T
HeavyArty
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Posted: Sunday, September 13, 2020 - 12:23 PM UTC
Just heard from Kitty Hawk rep that the MH-60S will be available on 1 OCT.
HeavyArty
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Posted: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - 06:43 AM UTC
Just got in my SH-60F. It is a great looking kit. It also has a bunch of unused parts. Some of these are the HIRSS exhaust (MH-60R and HH-60H) and clear parts for the sliding port side windows (HH-60Hs and USCG HH/MH-60J/Ts). You can pretty much build any Naval H-60 from the kit (minus MH-60S), with just a little bit of scratch work around the port side windows. This looks like a real winner.
There is an issue with the instructions in the first batch though. There are some pages printed w/o diagrams and others where two pages are printed over each other.
Here are the correct instructions pages.
Page 1
Page 18
There is an issue with the instructions in the first batch though. There are some pages printed w/o diagrams and others where two pages are printed over each other.
Here are the correct instructions pages.
Page 1
Page 18
HeavyArty
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Posted: Monday, September 28, 2020 - 03:00 AM UTC
The MH-60S Knight Hawk kit is now available as well.