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OH-6 Cayuse

            Time for some more Nam builds.

In 1960, the United States Army issued Technical Specification 153 for a Light Observation Helicopter (LOH) capable of fulfilling various roles: personnel transport, escort and attack missions, casualty evacuation and observation.

The aircraft entered service in 1966, arriving in the Vietnam War thereafter. The pilots dubbed the new helicopter Loach, a word created by pronunciation of the acronym of the program that spawned the aircraft, LOH (light observation helicopter).

The OH-6 set 23 world records for helicopters in 1966 for speed, endurance and time to climb.

Do people even read descs anymore? Anyways I thought I'd make a Cayuse as it's a much lesser done heli and that's what I prefer. Tail was tricky to get how I wanted as it's a very different shaping than many others but I'm happy with what I came up with and its very adaptable. This isn't just my "Little Bird" made dark green, it's a total new build and design concept in every area compared to my other helicopters. On the rotor area I managed to get another use out of a wrench lol..love those things! Used hands to give the blades a yellow tip and it works well especially keeping the blade thin as possible and extending its length that bit more which was needed. This started as a table scrap when I was bored and decided I wanted to try out some tech to see if I could get the legs area much better then id previousky done as i was never happy using the robot arms as the curve was just wrong and using other straight parts looked ok but meant the helicopter needed additional support just to sit, that wasn't what I wanted but I also didn't want the helicopter to sit very high compared to a fig when standing next to it as despite knowing figs are out of scale themselves I still think it's Important to try keep builds small as possible while still being fig compatible. I got what I wanted in the end and at the same the found a way to have a windshield added without needing the use of a traditional hinge plate which sometimes isn't made in some colours or is very expensive even in colours like tan. So I worked around all that so it didn't matter. Internally more work went on then I thought to get this shaped but still strong. Hope you enjoy the build.

This being made in dark green made it an extra tough build as certain parts just don't cone in that colour at the moment. That was the extra challenge I set myself.

Taken on: May 24, 2017

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