Milviz Huey Redux Released!

Fantastic paints gentlemen... and ya have to love that teethy easyrider

this was a Air America done for Areosofts Huey... would love to see something like her on the Milviz one

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The weapons are selectable Jens. You can configure stuff like weapons, doors on or off, hoist and crew members at various locations.
 
That Air America repaint would be great. Note, from pictures I have gathered, there seemd to be a few variants. The older paint schemes were blue and white, on some later model Hueys later in the confict they seemed to have omitted the white paint and left the former white part in a natural aluminum finish. Like the PC6 Turbo porter. I think we will have to wait until the new paint kit comes out to make use of the spec maps.

Some images I have collected of AA Hueys are here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6gndqiq6hfkvbzu/AAAmaN18ddmUvLb7pQSO5lFja?dl=0

Cheers,
Mark
 
Great looking paints for that old workhorse of a chopper!
When I was at Yuma with VMFAT-401, I was working on a Kfir next to the taxiway leading from our flightline, as well as the SAR hangar, when I heard the SAR chopper fire up. A Huey that had been at Yuma, seemingly forever. They got going, lifted, and came down the Taxiway towords the runway. Apparently, and we discovered later the story, this was a for-real rescue mission. Anyway, instead of a nice, sedate, hover-taxi to the runway for take-off, he gave it the gun as soon as he lifted, and came down the taxiway at many knots per, nose way low, the blades looking like they were only a couple feet off the concrete. Right towords ME! Scared the heck outta me. I thought for sure I was going to get a blade tip in the neck. I jumped off the wing I was working up on, and rolled under the bird as fast as I could. The SAR bird roared by, turned onto the runway, and started climbing, still going full bore.
I just laid there and shook for a while. We found out the story later. Nasty bit of business. F/A-18 with VMFA-333 ran his wingtip through his wingy's canopy, and took his head off...
ANYWAY. The whole point is, I got a real good look at the bottom of the SAR bird as it went by, and I noticed something you seem to have left off your two Navy SAR birds. Apparently, and once I thought about it, I seem to recall all the Navy birds of that era had it, on the bottom of the bird were big, block letters saying ABANDON CHUTE. A gentle reminder to pilots in the water they were going after, I guess :semi-twins:
I didn't see that on you repaints, so I thought I might say something. Other than that, they look really good. Especially the faded paint on the ol' reliable SAR birds.
Keep em coming :D
Pat☺
 
PhantomTweak, you are correct, station SAR birds like the Yuma or Fallon HH-1N's would have that on the belly. The repaint depicts training squadron (HT) colors for B/C models that were used prior to the JetRanger (TH-57) coming along.
 
Hi,

i finally got it as a xmas present to myself :) really a superb model. Has there been released a paintkit? I cannot find one.
 
Found the old paintkit to the Nemeth release and it works without problems.

This is a premium model and I was very amazed to see the choice of crew figures.. The pilot itself looks ok, but the co-pilot and soldiers back in the rear carry modern equipment (5.11 MOLLE plate carrier with a M9 Berretta side arm and chemlights all over the chest) None of these items were in service during the Vietnam war (chemlights were not "invented" before the mid 70's) and the Berreta did not enter US service before 1990! For a package with textures which are from the Vietnam time period, this is sort of a big deal for me when you look at the model.
 
I have been reading about the US Navy naval special warfare helicopter squadrons and there are a lot of interesting history with the lineage from Helicopter Attack (light) Squadron 3 in Vietnam and its descendants. When reading about HCS-4 and 5 I was a bit amazed to find out that both units when they were called HA(L)-4/5 probably were the last units in the US military to fly the short cabin Bell UH-1 into 1990 as gunships (possible NG units flying the UH-1M at this time, but not in an active role to my knowledge).

Both units were activated in 1976/77 after the US Navy first had disbanded HA(L)-3 of Vietnam fame just a few years earlier and used the Navy specific HH-1K Huey (Charlie with more power and different avionics.
Albeit officially reserve units they had a rather active role supporting the SEALS and other units worldwide. Even cold Norway was visited by HA(L)-4 in 1989 for the NATO “Cold winter” exercise (most likely supporting SEAL teams out of Evenes).

The HH-1K’s got a new matt dark green paint scheme and had low visible black decals all over (some typical navy decals as the “jet intake” warning and rescue arrow on the door), even the rotors were painted matt. They had the full M21 armament system with both LAU-68 pods and miniguns+ flexible M60s. Pictures shows that fast-roping was done from the hoist, even with the full M21 kit. The Milviz C-model fits the HH-1K very well, really only the door guns which are missing.

HH-1K, 157194 “207” of HA(L)-4, 1989.

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