OH-135B Chippewa

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This is the first of a new posting belch, just so you're warned.

This is a 1/72 Revell EC135 (the colorful one) that I converted using bits from an Italeri OH-58D that's seen better days.  It was a fun little kit to build, though I fracked up the lower windscreen (couldn't get the thing to fit correctly).

I mounted the Kiowa's mast on top of the rotor, and added the ordinance pylons.  I toyed with giving it a set of Hellfires, but misplaced them as I was actually building the kit.

No backstory on this, as it was done just to put on my desk at BAe Systems and see how many of the ex US Army guys notice.  The German Naval Eurofighter fooled pretty much everyone (including a visiting VP from England who thought it looked "quite attractive in those colors").

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