Miss Clawd IV OH-6A

Delta Team · Post by **Delta Team** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:31 am

After seeing the new bbi night stalker helo, I decided that it would make a nice custom. I back dated it to an Hughs OH-6A from Vietnam know as Miss Clawd IV flowen by Capt. Hugh Mills.

I started by stripping all the night stalker gear off the bird. Then conveted the tail from a T tail to a Y tail. And building a new rotor head for a 4 blade set up and swaping it for the stock 5 blade set. Trimmed the tips of the skids, and removed all the wire cutters. I also then cut the bulkhead behind the pilots seats to better represent the OH-6A. Paint is standard US Army #24087 OD Green to match the time period. The decals were custom made by up scaling a set from a 1/35th model of Miss Clawd IV. The green tint on the bubble was done with green magic marker. Add a XD huey pilot and another one with the m60 gunners arms and weapon. All in all it was a fairly easy custom. I had originally thought of doing it when the first little bird came out but the electronics on the chin bubble and rest of the body would have been to difficult to remove cleanly.

Dave

MIGMADMAVIS · Post by **MIGMADMAVIS** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:43 am

Thats awesome, great job man!!!!!!! I love it

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:23 am

Great job!!!!!!!!

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:44 am

Outstanding job.

Killerf6 · Post by **Killerf6** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 1:41 pm

Very nice work, and definately one of a kind.

Spudkopf · Post by **Spudkopf** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:20 pm

Wow, I was only just yersterday looking at how hard it would be to retro the MH-6 and had decided it would get a green light when a suitable MH-6 became available.

Great work Delta Team I am very impressed, I take it you have a copy of Capt. Hugh Mill's book Low Level Hell, which is a must read for all OH-6A fans.

By the way are you going to add the minigun to the left side like Mill's did?

Aslo I'd be very intersted in how you changed the 5 blade hub to the 4 blade version.

Post by **aferguson** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:13 pm

wow that's great. I made a loach out of an old chap mei ah-6 but it doesn't look as good as yours. Times like this i'm glad i don't have a camera.

Folkwulfe · Post by **Folkwulfe** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:00 pm

OUTSTANDING!!! You did a fantastic re-work to retro an MH into a Vietnam OH. I went just a little bigger....a 1/6th 21C Littlebird into an OH-6A (but not Miss Claud IV) and I can appreciate all the differences. Way to go dude!!!

Delta Team · Post by **Delta Team** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:15 pm

Thanks everyone. Yes I plan to build a mini gun for it out of one from a GI Joe figure. The seats in the new bbi helo work better for use with the XD huey pilots because it has flatter seats than the first one. It makes the cockpit look less accurite but I'll take that trade off to get the figure seated in it easier.

STUKA · Post by **STUKA** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:32 pm

nice bird. great job

steelbonnet · Post by **steelbonnet** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:28 am

That`s an excellent job you`ve done there.

Ja

75th Ranger · Post by **75th Ranger** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:21 pm

Amazing work!!!!

I really like it and it definetely could be a good idea for a re-paint scheme.

great job!

blaster_e11 · Post by **blaster_e11** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:18 am

awesome transformation

tkjaer21 · Post by **tkjaer21** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:03 am

Very nice work.

C-7A Caribou · Post by **C-7A Caribou** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:42 pm

Wow, that looks amazing. I'd thought of backdating the little bird too, but never ended up getting one. And yea, how did you change the rotor?
Also, did you take the helo apart to paint it? If so, how did you get it apart. It looks as though there are screw covers.

Delta Team · Post by **Delta Team** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:18 am

C-7A Caribou wrote:Wow, that looks amazing. I'd thought of backdating the little bird too, but never ended up getting one. And yea, how did you change the rotor?
Also, did you take the helo apart to paint it? If so, how did you get it apart. It looks as though there are screw covers.

I started by pulling the rotor hub off and then cutting 4 of the blade mounts off carefully at the main hub. I used the one remaining mount as a starting point to space out the 3 new locations and CA glue them back on. I made 2 sandwich plates out of styrene sheet to strenghten the mounts, gluing one below and one above the blade mounts. I used liberal amounts of CA glue to fill in around the blade mounts to make everything nice and solid.

I did remove the interior, but I did not fully split the helo apart. I cut the mounts for the bubble off and the just glued it back on when finished. And once the bubble was off, you could see the screw mount ounder the floor that holds the interior in. I just cut that mount and then slid the interior out through the bubble opening. It will actually hold itself back in when but back into place, so there was no worry about the cut mount.

scope uk · Post by **scope uk** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:09 am

That is one AWESOME custom!!! if you are going to add the minigums to the side it might be an idea to check out Marauder's wave 4 one.

wreckchaser · Post by **wreckchaser** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:19 am

Great job on both helos. What did you use on the tail modification?

Delta Team · Post by **Delta Team** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:54 am

The Y tail mod was done by cutting down a piece of one of the running boards that came with the night stalker version. I then beveled the edge and glued it to the verticle staybalizer and added a piece of styrene rod as the brace between them. I also trimmed off the tab for the top of the T tail.

warhawker · Post by **warhawker** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:34 am

Delta, I too have modified several 1/6 helos but modified them to fit under ceiling fans. So far the Miss Clawd is the best looking! Great mod you did!

forcerecon85 · Post by **forcerecon85** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:12 pm

Just when I'm in the finishing stages of my MH-6 to OH-6A conversion I find this. Seems a lot of people wanted the Cayuse and couldn't wait for one to be released. (I too!) Very nice work to you all, no matter the scale

Tambo · Post by **Tambo** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:26 am

Dam fine work guys. Littlebirds rock!

grunt1 · Post by **grunt1** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:58 am

Wow that rocks! Very nice to see some Vietnam customs..

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