The “Huey Down” work: Italeri 1/72.

The subject of this work is a U.S. Marines UH-1N used in Iraq in the first Gulf war. I decided to make it crashed-“but-not-too-much”, with a side almost intact and the other with medium damage as if had crashed with on its side over some rocks. I like the idea of showing different things on both sides of the model as you can see on the previous model “Spanish adversary” which has a side with the avionics bays closed and the other fully detailed, this “two-faces” concept allows us to watch different things on both sides making a more interesting model. The interior is detailed with styrene pieces (Evergreen and stretched sprue). I made the fabric of the rear seats with masking tape. The rotor is also detailed with styrene pieces. The camo was applied using Tac stuff to get a semi-hard border, I used Vallejo´s Model Air acrylics. The weathering was done with oil paint blended with enamel thinner. Scratches on the crashed side were made with aluminum paint. Then I added the dust with Mig Productions pigments mixed with water, this way you can easily retouch and remove where you don’t want it.

Diego Quijano.