"Looking for pics of crashed OH-6 for objective marker" Topic

Kinda grim subject, but with the old joke of "That's a Loach, honey, when you see one on the ground burning, that's where the enemy is" a crashed OH6 Loach makes a perfect VC objective (since I already have a red-smoke LZ objective for the US).

I have a QRF Loach model, just need to figure out how much damage to do to it to make the objective.

What can the TMP brain-trust find?

Depends how crashed :-)

FOD in the engine can force it down with minimum damage, engine smoke, couple of bullet holes near the engine compartment.

If you want more 'crashed' then the enormous torque forces tend to fli them on the side, so broken or stripped rotors, cracked glass and possibly broken off tail boom at the significant features:

Complete burnouts like this are less common:

Best of all, the first picture Geoff posted is indeed, a Loach. From looking at the picture though, I suspect it was sling loaded to that location, as you can see the straps in the photo. Otherwise, I would love to know how the tail boom and rotor wound up in the passenger compartment. That would be one heck of a crash!
BWW
EDIT: Since the OH-6 and the Hughes 500 are the same basic aircraft, try Googling either/both of those topics and you will get some good pictures as well.

@BrianW: I've seen what happens when one of the amphib helos (Sea King or the Soviet equivalent) has a rotor strike the water. pretty much knocks the bird right out of the water, what with all that energy in the rotor.

I only saw the aftermath of one crash when I worked for a helicopter company; that was enough for me.
BWW

The body of the OH-6 was dang sturdy. Expect the boom and blades to bend or break off and the skids to take a beating, glass to break. But the body would very rarely deform.

Recovered a Hughes 369 a few years ago, which is a civilian OH-6. It had an engine failure, the pilot autorotated down but lost control at the end of the flare-out. It was a mess, blades and tailboom detached, but the cockpit was basically intact. Both the pilot & passenger walked away, just a broken thumb between them I think.
So unless it's burnt, modeling the body intact is a good start. The doors, if fitted, would be jettisoned or even just pop open on impact. The skids are usually designed to absorb the impact so could be deformed, maybe unevenly, depending on how it came down.
If it burns, you're left with a pile of ash, with a few components like the gearbox and engine remaining.

I only saw the aftermath of one crash when I worked for a helicopter company; that was enough for me.

Like I said, kinda grim subject, but it's pretty iconic for Vietnam.

The QRF Loach model has a solid body with the doors cast in place, but the rotor blades and skids are separate pieces. Pretty sure I can get a pretty representative crashed Loach if I replace the tail boom and beat up the rotor blades.