BBI UH/HH-60 Overhead Instrument Panel Custom

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BBI UH/HH-60 Overhead Instrument Panel Custom

Post by granch » Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:20 am

Hi all,
Here is a very simple custom to make your BBI Blackhawk & Pavehawk better. Less than 1 hour work. You can download one of 2 versions of the panel, than zoom and print it to get a 26 mm square picture. This is to be cemented on a balsa floor (profiled to get the curve of the cockpit's ceilling). Add some flattened nails to get the power control and N2O levers, some more for the biggest buttons, than paint the sides black. The rear (fuses?) panels are more difficult and have not been achieved until now. It needs to make a new cabin ceilling, because it's less high than the one of the BBI's helicopter, but you will also have less height to move your soldiers...
As you can see below, they are a lot of different designs for this panel.

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Re: BBI UH/HH-60 Overhead Instrument Panel Custom

Post by HardenSteel » Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:16 pm

That is so Cool!! :shock:

Happy New Year, Y'all!!

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Re: BBI UH/HH-60 Overhead Instrument Panel Custom

Post by pickelhaube » Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:19 pm

This does look cool :D
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Re: BBI UH/HH-60 Overhead Instrument Panel Custom

Post by granch » Sun Jan 02, 2011 5:56 pm

Thank you for leaving a feedback. Perhaps could a Blackhawk pilot tell us the exact size of this panel. When mounted in the model, it seems to be not big anough for 1 or 2 mm.

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Re: BBI UH/HH-60 Overhead Instrument Panel Custom

Post by Tambo » Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:48 am

Very nice. I did the panels for the MH-60L version including the cockpit. The thread is someplace.
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