Floyd S. Werner, Jr. Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) I'm pleased to announce the impending release of two new Little Birds in 1/35th from Kitty Hawk. The first should be the AH-6J and that will be followed up by the MH-6J. I'm not in charge of the release schedule. I just proof the CAD and make marking recommendations. These kits will have complete interiors and engine compartments. The CAD has been developed from actual -10s, the operator's manual for those not in the US Army, real aircraft and first hand accounts. The AH-6J will include two M-134s, two M-260 seven shot pods and the optional GAU-19 gun. The AH-6J will include MFDs in the cockpit. The MH-6J will have the common type of operator bench along with the early FRIES system. For those who want to see the kits they are on my personal and Werner's Wings Facebook pages and will be on Kitty Hawk's page tomorrow. They have allowed me to announce new helicopter kits on my pages. These CAD drawings are not finished yet but are very close. Close enough that we are able to share them. If these sell well there will be more helicopters in this scale. We are already working on at least four other helicopters, many on your short lists. It is going to be good to be a helicopter modeler. Floyd AH-6J Photos MH-6J Photos Edited April 20, 2016 by Floyd S. Werner, Jr. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gatorbait51 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 I'm pleased to announce the impending release of two new Little Birds in 1/35th from Kitty Hawk. The first should be the AH-6J and that will be followed up by the MH-6J. I'm not in charge of the release schedule. I just proof the CAD and make marking recommendations. These kits will have complete interiors and engine compartments. The CAD has been developed from actual -10s, the operator's manual for those not in the US Army, real aircraft and first hand accounts. The AH-6J will include two M-134s, two M-260 seven shot pods and the optional GAU-19 gun. The AH-6J will include MFDs in the cockpit. The MH-6J will have the common type of operator bench along with the early FRIES system. For those who want to see the kits they are on my personal and Werner's Wings Facebook pages and will be on Kitty Hawk's page tomorrow. They have allowed me to announce new helicopter kits on my pages. These CAD drawings are not finished yet but are very close. Close enough that we are able to share them. If these sell well there will be more helicopters in this scale. We are already working on at least four other helicopters, many on your short lists. It is going to be good to be a helicopter modeler. Floyd Simply fantastic news! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
salvador001 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 This is awesome. Im in for the AH-6J, hope this kit beats the Dragon kit. I want to see the 1/35 UH-1H too. Please make us all happy! Rod. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cag_200 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Hopefully with some pilots included? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 This is indeed great news! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HeavyArty Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Great news. Thanks for all your efforts Floyd. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stephen Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Great news but please, no open access panels for engines etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimm33 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Wonderful news, Floyd! Thanks for sharing! I know we are in good hands if KH will do the long awaited UH-1H. I was not particularly interested in a Little Bird but may be now! Jim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawkwrench Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Great news Floyd! I guess I'll be buying a Ah-6 now. Hope one of those in the works helos is a new tooled H-60!!! Tim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anvil6 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Great news Floyd! I guess I'll be buying a Ah-6 now. Hope one of those in the works helos is a new tooled H-60!!! Tim I concur. YES PLEASE!!! :D -Ramon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Looks great Floyd. Any details you can share about whether the kit comes w any PE, specifically seat belts? That Eduard set for the OH-6 is hard to find. Hopefully the OH-6A isn't far behind..... BTW, do you know if these kits will come with doors? I'd love to use one as the basis for that Seaspray MD500. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Floyd S. Werner, Jr. Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 This is awesome. Im in for the AH-6J, hope this kit beats the Dragon kit. I want to see the 1/35 UH-1H too. Please make us all happy! This already beats the Dragon kit for accuracy and detail. As far as the other thing goes, you never know. Maybe, maybe not. What do you think? Hopefully with some pilots included? I doubt it but I'm not in charge of that. Great news but please, no open access panels for engines etc. I am not in charge of design but I'd bet they will be separate panels, but I don't know for sure. Great news Floyd! I guess I'll be buying a Ah-6 now. Hope one of those in the works helos is a new tooled H-60!!! Again you never know what they will want next. Stay tuned. I suspect we'll have another 1/35th scale announcement in about a month or so. The next aircraft is almost done in CAD. Looks great Floyd. Any details you can share about whether the kit comes w any PE, specifically seat belts? That Eduard set for the OH-6 is hard to find. Hopefully the OH-6A isn't far behind..... BTW, do you know if these kits will come with doors? I'd love to use one as the basis for that Seaspray MD500. I can not address if they will come with PE but I suspect they will come with seatbelts. Don't quote me. That is outside my scope. You never know on an OH-6A. Seems like it would be easy. We'll see how these two sell. It will have doors. At least I've seen them on the CAD drawings so I suspect they will be there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
salvador001 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) My dream list: 1- UH-1H 1/35 2- AH-1F 1/35 3- AH-64A/D 1/35 4- AH-6/MD500D/E/OH-6A 1/35 5- BELL 206B/OH-58A/C 1/35 6- UH-60A/L 1/35 7- Bell 412 1/35 We all helicopter modellers are happy you are making this kits, hope they sell well and see more in the near future. Congratulations to Kitty Hawk and Werner Wings. Cant wait to see the next announcement. Rod. Edited April 20, 2016 by salvador001 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mike_45 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 I will buy one of each, any idea on an approximate release date? No big deal of not, just excited. Mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skyhawk174 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Wow great news Floyd. Thanks for sharing. Now I can get rid of my Dragon kit right? Am I seeing correctly? An injected rope? Now that would be cool. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RoNaf Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 What about a Vietnam era OH-6A? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 What about a Vietnam era OH-6A? See Floyd's post above. Purchase these two kits in large quantities and hopefully that will persuade them to release a LOACH. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawkwrench Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) Deleted Tim Edited April 20, 2016 by hawkwrench Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Loach Driver Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 This is great news. Looking at the side-views, it looks to be very accurate. Skid height looks spot-on, overall shape looks good and the main blades aren't as skinny and under-scale like the Dragon kit. Maybe some of the parts from the various versions released by Dragon can be used to convert this into versions like the TOW-Defender, MMS-Defender or MD500E or 530F. Great news all around and fingers-crossed for an OH-6A. That version will be a good seller so it is hard to see KH not releasing a Loach. Thanks to all for the work invested in this project. LD. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rotorman Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 This was posted on a Facebook model site. I think it came from Floyd..Floyd, this is absolutely incredible... I can't wait to get one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
K5054NZ Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Great stuff Floyd, thanks for sharing them with us. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Floyd S. Werner, Jr. Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 I added photos to the original posting of both the AH-6J and MH-6J. Floyd Quote Link to post Share on other sites
salvador001 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) Im in for the AH-6J. You have a secure customer here. Rod. Edited April 20, 2016 by salvador001 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewPerren Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 Awwww Crap. Now I'm going to have to start building in 1/35 as well. Thanks for the update Floyd. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DarkKnight Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 will there be the super secret sugar scoop exhaust deflector? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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