G'day everyone
well, for roughly 6 months now ive been working hard at the 2 main components of my latest diorama.
This, is going to be one of the parts, took me a fair while and a hell of alot of research and scratchbuilding, but i did it.
I give you the Bushranger.


brief history of these buetys
they were first put into service by the RAAF in 1969, when the need for australia to have their own gunships and escort for our slicks was growing too high to borrow help from the US all the time.
They were a UH-1H, with side mounted miniguns, XM-158 rocket pods, and door mounted twin M-60's. They were employed with the 9th squadron, RAAF. they left Vietnam in 1971.

Now then, most of you probably didn't even relaize these existed :-) but their it is, the rocket pods were scratch built, so were the arms that are holding them on.
2 things to note, the black kangaroo on the tail is facing the wrong way, that has been corrected since i took those pics, also another door mounted twin M60 was added on other side.
*note the 9th squadron RAAF's insignia on the cockpit doors.
well there you have it, the first part of what ive been up to, if you want to see the enxt part, i will be making a post in Armour soon, cheers, all coments are much appreciated.....oh ok then critisism is welcome to
cheers

Damn, didnt include other 2 pics, here ya go

Nice job there. What scale is this in? I like that yellow blade. It must have made it look so much cooler in flight.

Thanks Brad, its 1/35, and the kit is Revell
the yellow blade was so they were more visable from the air, when parked on the ground.
cheers

....well, this seems like it was a total blowout!
comon guys more than 1 of you must have something to say about this?

I noticed just the other day that they are finnaly been religated to transport roles minus there guns and rockets and will be retired as soon as new equipment arrives.

it'll be a shame to see whats left of the old birds go

Wow that's a really nice one there!!! You did a great job on the old revell huey!
What's your diorama going to look like? (can hardly wait to see more pictures)

regards
Mark

If its the Revell kit then it would be 1/32, not 1/35. But who cares about a minor scale issue cause its a great looking model. One thing though, why are the rocket pods and the minigun on two seperate support mounts? Unless you have pics of the Hueys and they were really like that I would guess that they werent because of the risk of a rocket hitting the minigun mount.

Can't wait to see this dio.

G'day guys, thanks for the comments, whiskey, they were on seperate support mounts, and yes, it is 1/32
heres proof






heres an example of the yellow rotor



As for what the dio is going to be like....that would be telling
cheers guys

lestweforget,
Looks great. Love what you did with the old Revell kit. It is still my favorite UH-1 kit. I have a few myself. I have one still in the box that I may do up as an Air America bird. Good on ya, mate.

thanks mate, cheers

thanks mate, cheers

Hmm that is interesting LWF. Thanks for sharing the pics.

No problem Whiskey