MH-60G Blackhawk

by John Darlington

images by Craig Sargent

MRC's 1/35 scale UH-60L Blackhawk is available online from Squadron.com

This is my Academy 1/35 Blackhawk finished with the tail codes of 'Super 64', Mike Durant's Blakhawk which was shot down over Mogadishu and made famous in the movie 'Blackhawk Down'.

The kit is not entirely accurate as it started life as the standard UH60L and after I saw the movie I became inspired to research the various Blackhawk versions. I had previously bought the Cobra set for the UH60 and then decided to just add extra bits to make it a secial ops version. Thanks to Chris Miller from Cobra Company for supplying the bits that I needed.

I also decided to flesh the kit out with Eduard's internal & external detail sets which I originally wanted for the cabin seat belts but then decided to go the whole hog. So what could have been a fairly quick project ended up taking about eight months! I just can't seem to build anything out of the box these days.... know what I mean?

Paint used for the exterior was Testor's ModelMaster US Army helo drab and I had a hell of a job getting a reasonable gloss coat ready for decalling.

I ended up giving it coats of Tamiya clear gloss, Humbrol, Johnsons Klear, Testors Metalizer sealer all on top of each other and none of them came out really glossy.

Also there are some pics of my AH6 Little Bird from DML which was also inspired by the movie and also has a Cobra detail set (AH6J MELB).

As always, thanks to Craig Sargent for the photos.

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Model and Text Copyright © 2003 by John Darlington
Images Copyright © 2003 by Craig Sargent
Page Created 14 January, 2003
Last Updated 17 March, 2004

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