When I was making inroads into my stash I had a few large helicopter models to make so I made the thread 'over there' about it
This included the Italeri Merlin HM1 and the Airfix CH-53 and I have taken the opportunity to pop out some other helicopters during the build
Anyway I cannot remember ever putting an RFI for the CH-53 which I finished as a US Marines 'copter of HMH-262 The Ugly Angels in the Middle East
This machine used engine jet pipe blanks with images of the delightful Betty Boop which gave me much amusement replicating inside a tiny-ish hole
I scratch built the countermeasures gear and every one of the airframe markings was home printed
Finished in a mix of Tamiya Acrylics here she be:
Cold light of day images, very chilly for a May morning...
But 'nuff of pollytics
And on
The large fuel tanks were aftermarket because the Airfix kit ones were for skinnier early tanks
Betty is visible on the jet pipe blanks here
Rotor blade marks were no fun at all but add nicely to the overall look
Not great pictures but typical of my poor 'tography abilities sorry
I hope you like this
Thanks for looking