Wednesday, March 11, 2015

The Bell Sioux

Well, from that family anyway. This is an old Italeri kit of the slightly later A47 variant.


The pilot is a heavily modified Esci figure from the NATO ground crew set

 

A few of the parts were broken but for the most part it went together well 


It came with machinegun options for quad .30s or twin M60s. I went with just a pair of .30s in the end. Including a crew figure pushed the bubble canopy out slightly, and I will patch this area with some green-stuff later



The air frame has a couple of different shades of green over a green/black base with some black details on the engine parts

  

The landing skids required major repairs




Mostly a recon and spotter unit for my Korean War collection but will also feature in other theatres and other eras. In service from the late 1940s and probably still in use somewhere; this aircraft was eventually adopted by over thirty nations.

9 comments:

  1. She looks a sweet ride Al.

    Nice one mate.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Fine. Good work.
    The old era of the model,
    period when everything was better ....

    ReplyDelete
  3. Looks great though fragile- like most helicopters.

    Mine are all damaged in some way sadly... the rigors of gaming....

    Cheers,

    Pete.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Thanks lads, yeah a bit rickety a bit fragile but cool additions. Helis actually work really well under the CD Cold War rules, recon, transport, assault, very versatile assets

    Cheers

    ReplyDelete
  5. nice job - the perspex went on well, I always used to have glue round the edges.

    ReplyDelete
  6. It sure is a dinky little model and caused me no end of pain when I put one together years back

    Well done with the crew

    ReplyDelete
  7. It sure is a dinky little model and caused me no end of pain when I put one together years back

    Well done with the crew

    ReplyDelete