I am trying to recreate/ rebuild my uh-1d to make it “death from above” from Apocalypse Now. I am using my old Revell 1/32 UH-1D. There are very few photos of it, but here are some I have found
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A good choice. It is actually a UH-1H (not a D; no antennas nor pitot on the nose, towel bar antenna on roof, etc.) with two crew chief seats facing forward. Revell’s kit is also an H, not a D.
Some more images of it.
The surf boards.
There are decals for it for sale on eBay.
@HeavyArty is that just the decals only or do they supply the scaled down surf boards as well?
Just the decals. You have to create the surf boards.
Thank you very much for the pictures and the decals. Is there any figures i can use/ rebuild or buy that are for the kit?
i think ICM did some air cav guys in 1/35 including a Colonel Kilgore type wearing a cavalry officer’s black stetson hat.
I would use the Bravo 6 Crew figures, but you still need M23 doorgun mounts and M60Ds for them.
Or Dragon Crew figures, which comes w/1 M23 mount and an M60D (x2 to get proper mounts and gunners).
You can use the Dragon 1st Cav Vietnam guys for Kilgore.
Does any company make 1/32 uh-1h’s?
The Revell kit is actually an H, not a D, so you are set.
D - Pitot tube and HF antennas sticking off the nose.
H - Pitot tube and HF towel bar antenna relocated to the roof.
Another option is the Dragon 1/35 UH-1D, which can be built as a D or an H with parts for both types in the box. It also comes with the doorguns already. It comes with PE for the IPs and seatbelts too.
You will still have to scratch build or source the two crew chief seats. One comes in the 1/35 Academy UH-1C kits. There is a 1 CAV patch on the back wall too.
Don’t worry about the 1/35 figures in a 1/32 model either. The scales work fine together.
The 1/32 ICM guys wearing Cav Hats are pilots, so not the right uniform for Kilgore. The other set is mainly pilots with the CAV guy in fatigues, but in 1/48.
Thank you very much, Gino!
Is there surfboards in 32nd scale?
None that I know of. You will have to make them.
EDIT: Apparently there are lots of them
If you want to do some background reading of Calvery helo pilots in action, read “Chickenhawk” You will not be disappointed.
Thank you guys very much! ill probobly post pictures when everything is order,painted and done!
Point of interest - in the film the officer in command
( I forget the character’s name ) orders one of his men to bring him his Yater Spoon - none of the surfboards in the film were Yater Spoons. I guess the tech director wasn’t from So Cal … 
A true warrior. But since you have the kit, not all is lost. The shortcomings in that kit are obvious, but they can be overcome to some extent.
It may be the angle of the photos, but it sure looks to me as if it only has a door on the starboard side. I cannot see the port side door in the photos. If so, you’re in luck - you can use the spare door to correct the one that is used.
The thread below shows that correction and the beginning of correcting the seats, which are quite wrong.
Or you build it like it is and just have fun with it.
I don’t have any armament on the Huey except the pylons for the armament.
If that makes any sense! 
You shouldn’t at this point. Long-bodied US Army UH-1D/Hs didn’t carry the armament that is in the Revell box. That setup was used on short-bodied UH-1B and UH-1C Gunships and on Australian Bushranger UH-1H Gunships. Almost all US long-bodied UH-1D/Hs were troop carriers called “Slicks” and only had the M23 doorgun mount on both sides, as in the Dragon helo crew set above.
M23 doorgun mount w/M60D MG on it, the most common setup.
Bravo 6 also offers the M23 mount and guns to go with their doorgunner figures.
You can take spade grips from 1/35 50s and add them to the MGs in the kit. They’re not the best, and they require modificatipon, but they’ll be the correct scale.
The mounts are a relatively easy scratchbuild, or you can hang them.
