Revell 1/32 UH-1D Gunship plastic model kit.
All in all, a reasonable kit of the ubiquitous Iroquois.
Repop of older 1960's kit, with much better quality decals, small amount of flash and ejector pin marks. Parts fit, okay. Overdone rivets and panel lines? Yep. Looks at home on this old whirley-bird though...
Complete with a fictitious armament scheme (at least on the long-bodied D mode), armament is more at home on a short-bodied C model) including rocket pods and quad M-60 automated guns, and miniguns. Wrong armament for D model...
But reasonable starting place for building a Vietnam-era RAAF UH-1D Bushranger gunship...
Needs a lot of effort to bring up to a modern standard of detail, but if you're not anal about such things, this kit still builds up into a decent representation of a "Huey".
The big question.
Does it look like an IIroquois?
Yes. Yes it does.
Despite being an old, simply detailed kit, with a few minor shape and detail problems and omissions, it still builds easily, And for some, will be nostalgic...
Still, if you want a reasonable scale UH-1D, 1/35 or 1/32, this may not be the only player on the field anymore, but easily the best value for money.
Panda and Dragon do a few variants, including a D model, but for more dollars.
MRC/Academy cover the C model fairly well, and Seminar have the closest to a B model on the market.
In closing, if you can overlook the small issues with this terrific old kit, just go an get one, before it's discontinued. It may pop up again, but who knows when?
Enjoyable model, all the same. :)
440newyorker
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