The early Aussie UH-1s had these too. 
New to the group but I just pre-ordered 2 from the Squadron website. While it looks like Trumpeter omitted the weapons sprue they featured at Model World many moons ago I would imagine Trumpeter will eventually release a kit with the 19 and 7 shot pods already modeled as well as flex guns as seen in the earlier sprues.
I was a bit disappointed seeing that the anti-collision lights on the tail boom are wrong. The UH-1B only had the one light on the vertical spar. The UH-1C had two lights on the tail boom on opposite sides just aft of the loop antennas and removed the light from the spar. All 3 should not be there.
The old Seminar B-model has the correct tail and chord.
Either way, I’m looking forward to a new entry. That rotor head is bang on!
UH-1B tail via USAAM courtesy Ray Wilhite.
Error in kit circled in yellow. Note also the ejector pins marks on the horizontal stabilizers. They are on the tops of the rotor blades as well.
Original pre-release sprues with universal mount and both 19 and 7 shot rocket pods in yellow circle and arrow pointing to rubber flexible ammo chutes for the miniguns or flex guns.
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In this day and age that is just no bueno.
Ah, a big welcome by the way. It looks like you know your way around choppers. We can use your knowledge.
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Welcome aboard snake36bravo.
Did you used to slum it at ARC helo forum, the handle seems familiar.
Thanks for the warm welcome.
Will be glad to help out. I grew up around Hueys and military aviation. Also, after the service worked on the OH-58D/ARA, CH-47J, and AH-64D/E programs for PEO Aviation.
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Cool! My son was a 15Sierra, Worked on OH-58Ds until we quit using them. He moved on to AH-64Ds
I myself never worked on any of them, although I’ve helocasted, rappelled, fast roped, jumped out of and stumbled off of them since the Huey days.
Hi Tank! Glad to be aboard. Correct, also on Fine Scale Forums and as a military historian/archivist I helped John Brennan on his series of books on helicopter artwork of the Vietnam War. My health has suffered over the years and I was never able to complete my book on helicopter night warfare during the Vietnam War.
Hoping there’s more traffic here for a rotorhead
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@snake36bravo welcome aboard, I’m interested in your unfinished book about night time helicopter combat, could you share some of your stories please?
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Welcome along to the forum. I have the first of the John Brennan books from Fonthill and it’s a great title.
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The ejector pins may just be on the pre-production run.
Floyd
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I just got the kit and those ejector pin marks are there but shallow and not massively hard to deal with. The fact the rivet detail is recessed instead of raised makes that easier in this case. Strangely enough the cabin floor rivets are shown raised though.
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where did you get the kit and how much was it as I’ve not seen it available in the UK yet.
From Jadlams I think, I too was surprised when I saw it. expecting it to be a preorder
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I have to say that this kit both impresses and dismays me.
A lot of the detail is superb, the interior riveting and panels are second to none. Apart from the awful push pin marks on the door side armour plate the seats are the best I have seen in any Huey kit (even if the assembly is fiddly and a bit hit and miss. Unlike the exterior the interior has all raised rivets etc and door panels reproduced nicely and a seperate control panel shroud is very welcome
But a big but is it suffers from a lack of well thought out location points and the instructions are dreadful in places that need clarity.
As a kit its way ahead of the older kits but feels like it wasnt finished in places like the external rivetting. I’m unsure about the tail stabiliser profile and the ridge upon the top of it but will look into that later in my build, for now I’m working internally. the rotor head looks very nice so far too.
PE grilles suck though of course they could be right as perforated plate but I imagine they were mesh in actual fact and will be adapting the Eduards UH-1C grilles to suit.
Just my tuppence worth
Keith
They are perforated. We’re just used to seeing diamond mesh in other locations.
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Speaking of the ACH-47A, we owe it to this man. RIP, brother.
November 27, 2024 by Sharon Holland
Warner D. “Rocky” Farr, MD, MPH, MSS, a trailblazer in Army Special Forces and Special Operations Medicine, passed away on November 20, 2024, under hospice care in Tampa, Florida. A soldier, physician, educator, and innovator, Farr devoted nearly five decades to serving his country, leaving an indelible legacy in military medicine and Special Operations.
Born in Arkansas, Farr grew up as the son of a career Air Force officer, moving frequently across postings. In 1967, at the age of 18, he enlisted in the Army as a paratrooper, graduating as the distinguished honor graduate of his Special Forces medic class. Assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), he deployed to Vietnam, serving as a combat medic and reconnaissance team member with the Military Assistance Command Vietnam-Studies and Observation Group, Command and Control South. He notably worked alongside SGM Billy Waugh during operations in Cambodia, an experience chronicled in the book Chasing the Jackal.
Following his service in Vietnam, Farr joined Detachment A in West Berlin in 1971, operating behind the Iron Curtain as an exchange non-commissioned officer with the German Bundeswehr’s Long Range Recon Company 100, where he became fluent in German. He later served as a Special Forces instructor at Northeast Louisiana University. As a sergeant first class, he taught in the Special Forces Medical Course, earning a promotion to master sergeant.
After years of distinguished enlisted service, Farr was selected for commissioning and attended the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), earning his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1983. While attending USU, he served as the medical platoon leader for the 11th Special Forces Group (Airborne). He was also the distinguished honor graduate of his Army Flight Surgeon Course, and solo qualified in the TH-55 helicopter.
Farr’s medical career began with training in anatomic and clinical pathology at Brooke Army Medical Center, where he earned board certification. He served as Clinical Pathology Service chief and chief of a Pathology department at a 200-bed Army hospital. His forensic expertise led to his appointment as an Associate Medical Examiner for the Office of the Federal Medical Examiner for Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and Fort Drum, New York. Driven by a passion for aerospace pathology and aircraft accident investigation, he completed the Residency in Aerospace Medicine at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, earning his second board certification. He completed his Master of Public Health degree at the University of Texas, and later attended the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, receiving a Master’s degree in strategic studies.
Over the course of his remarkable career, Farr held a wide array of leadership roles, including division surgeon for the 10th Mountain Division, deputy commander of the Aeromedical Center at Fort Rucker, and chief of the Professional Staff at Lyster Army Hospital. He attended Air War College and later served as deputy chief of staff and surgeon for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), surgeon for the Special Forces Command, and surgeon for the Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command.
Following 9/11, Farr deployed to Afghanistan in 2001 as command surgeon for USASOC, where he played a pivotal role in revolutionizing battlefield medicine. His innovations included the development of lifesaving medical kits containing tools like tourniquets, hemostatic dressings, and chest-decompression needles, which became standard equipment for combat troops.
In 2016, Farr was inducted into the Special Forces Regimental Honors Hall of Fame of the United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, Special Operations Center of Excellence. In May 2024, he was selected as an inaugural inductee into the Special Operations Forces Medical Hall of Honor, recognizing his transformative contributions to Special Operations medicine.
Farr was a passionate educator, teaching in the Army’s Flight Surgeons Course, the Special Forces Medical Course, and the U.S. Air Force Aerospace Medicine Residency. As an associate professor, he also taught flight physiology and vision at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and served as an associate clinical professor at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Bradenton, Florida, following his military retirement on May 1, 2013.
Farr’s service took him to Vietnam, Cambodia, Berlin, Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. He was a member of the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care, a Fellow of the College of American Pathology and the Aerospace Medical Association, and a member of the Special Operations Medical Association, the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, the Society of U.S. Army Flight Surgeons, and the American Society of Aerospace Medicine Specialists.
His military awards include the Combat Medical Badge with Star, Expert Infantryman Badge, Army Master Flight Surgeon Wings, Master Parachutist Badge, Pathfinder Badge, Scuba Badge, Special Forces Tab, Defense Superior Service Medal with oak-leaf cluster, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star for Valor with oak-leaf cluster, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Army MSM with five oak leaf clusters, Air Medal with 2 device, Joint Service and Army Commendation Medals, Good Conduct Medal with clasp and 4 loops, Presidential, Valorous, Meritorious and Joint Unit Citations, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm and the U.S. Air Force Operational Excellence Unit Citation.
A prolific author, Farr wrote or edited several books, including The Death of the Golden Hour and the Return of the Future Guerrilla Hospital, American Guerrilla Warfare Medical Doctrine—The First Manuals: Lessons Learned, Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook, and The Third Temple’s Holy of Holies: Israel’s Nuclear Partisans.
Throughout his extraordinary career, Farr exemplified a lifetime of service, innovation, and dedication to military medicine. His trailblazing efforts in Special Operations and battlefield care leave an enduring legacy, and he is remembered as a mentor, patriot, and pioneer whose contributions will benefit generations to come.
“From our first days at USU in 1979, and then throughout his illustrious military SOF career, Rocky was viewed as an experienced, battle-tested provider. I’m not exaggerating to say his USU classmates looked up to him as a role model for the kind of doctor we would like to eventually become. I followed his career, viewing his operational medicine successes with pride that I knew him personally. I had the great fortune of following him as the U.S. Army Special Operations Command Surgeon, when he moved up to become the USSOCOM Surgeon,” said Dr. Joseph Caravalho, Jr., CEO and President of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine and a member of the USU class of 1982. “I consider it an honor and privilege to have known Rocky as a medical school classmate, and then to serve in Military Medicine alongside him. He exemplified USU’s goal of training outstanding medical leaders who will then serve with great impact throughout their respective DoD careers. May God rest his soul. De Oppreso Liber!”
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