"Bell UH-1C in 1/50" Topic

What is Vietnam wargaming without the iconic helicopters the US forces were using there. After painting up some Marines and NVA, VC figures I thought it would be time to build some choppers. The Marines used the UH-1C and the Sikorsky H34 during the first years of the conflict . I start with the UH-1C.
As I got two 3d printers a resin and a filament printer I tried to print a Huey on both of them and wanted to find out which printer would do the better job.

Here are pictures of the filament printed Huey:

As you can see you can see the printing lines quite clearly. I didn't like that very much and they would have shown after painting even more. So I printed one in resin:

I like that one much more. So I will work with the resin printed ones. I started printing a second one and built a flight stand out of an old car antenna:

The chopper will be attached with a magnet. More pictures at link

Both are superb, but yes the resin one is outstanding. That will need to be some magnet to secure it! I imagine that much resin having quite some mass and so being quite heavy, even in Earth's gravity.

Incredible how 3D modelling has evolved so rapidly

It is not that heavy really . I use a rare earth magnet on the antenna and one glued to the chopper . works quite well

Good stuff.

Now you mention it, I have one of those telescopic magnet things (like pen) for picking up lost screws etc. I have it stuck to a steel shelf. I have to lever it off, as just pulling does not work

Looks great. I thinking three is the number needed for skirmish games and in reality that's probably high but they're so cool to have.

I will probably get another one but kitted out as a gunship