Miniguns can be mounted both in the door on the right side or in the fwd window on the left side. Note that you can't mount the minigun (on the left side) together with the Left Hand Extended Pylon (the left outboard pylon). So you can't mount left side minigun and Hellfire at the same time.

Phil

Too bad that they only give one minigun

......anyway, can they carried rocket tube on the left outboard pylon?

I just got mine yesterday...they do really look great...

I'm planning to build one of the bird that flew during Tsunami Relief Operation in Indonesia... really love seeing those bird flew in and out, saving countless life those days...

But, I don't think the decal available in the market today....

Mario, Indonesia

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Purchase options and add-ons

With 1/72 scale Seahawk kits available from two major manufacturers for decades, I'm surprised neither has issued additional parts to make the colorful U.S. Coast Guard Jayhawk. HobbyBoss' kit, and sister kits SH-60B Seahawk, SH-60F Ocean Hawk, and HH-60H Rescue Hawk, are all new. The parts are nicely molded and, overall, fit well.

In addition to parts peculiar to the Jayhawk, the six sprues include weapons and sensors (and even another complete cabin floor) for other versions. The parts maps do not indicate the unused parts. Decals are included for one Coast Guard Jayhawk.

There are a lot of interior seats to add on this rescue bird, but be careful boring out the indicated holes in the cabin floor for the seat mounts; it is easy to make them too large and cause the seats to sit too low. I was disappointed that no collective controls were provided for the cockpit. In real life, these are obvious and substantial with all their additional switches and knobs.

Building and painting helicopter models is always complicated for me. The large windows and hatches produce difficult masking and paint-sequence decisions. Complicate it further with an intricate, glossy paint scheme and it's easy to see why more than half of the time I spent on the model went into the finish. I decided to paint the fuselage halves white (flat white for coverage, then gloss white for sheen) before installing the interior and closing. Then I masked and painted the canopy flat black off the model. After installing the canopy, I masked the model for the orange.

The instructions say simply "red," but this color is closer to international orange (FS12197). However, I prefer the redder Testors Boyd sunburst for this color, as it looks better in fluorescent light (how most of my models are displayed). After touching up the seams with white, I sprayed the orange.

The decals are good, but the tiny shield in the Coast Guard emblem has blue stripes instead of red. I had trouble with the large "USCG" on the belly. The clear film is very flimsy and shaped closely around and inside the letters. Just moving the wet decals into position caused them to "worm" and tangle badly. Don't look at the bottom of my Jayhawk.

Final assembly included adding the peripherals and rotors. The anhedral of the fins on the auxiliary fuel tanks is too shallow. The nose radome is perfectly round, but photos of Jayhawks show the cross section is a larger oval. Some missing details include the prominent "RV" mirrors, pitot tubes, and antenna masts on the starboard side of the tail boom. A good source of detailed Jayhawk photos is Modeler's Close-up

9, HH-60J Jayhawk/MH-60S Knighthawk, available in PDF format (for a price) from Dataview Publishing at

www.dataviewbooks.com.

After 31 hours, the HobbyBoss Jayhawk really livens up my helicopter collection. It's not a perfect kit (what is?), but right now it's the only out-of-the-box Jayhawk in any scale. Hey, there's one right now on "Deadliest Catch"!

Hi there this is my late entry into the Build! I was hoping to have something started much sooner but as we all say life got in the way. Hoping my first ISM build goes well, I will keep it quite basic. The HobbyBoss 1/72 HH-60H Rescue Hawk (Early Version)

Box Art

Instructions: This is my first Hobby Boss kit and the instructions layout was interesting to see but still reasonably easy to follow

Sprue Shots, Not bas detail for a 1/72 kit a few pin marks inside body will check which is visible and remove those. The clear sprues in good condition but not sure how to handle painting the wipers, which are part of the clear molding.

A Little History HH-60H Seahawk

An HH-60H deploying a SAR swimmer:

The HH-60H was developed beginning in September 1986 with a contract for the first five helicopters. The variant's first flight occurred on 17 August 1988. The HH-60H was developed in conjunction with the US Coast Guard's HH-60J. Deliveries of the HH-60H began in 1989. The variant earned initial operating capability in April 1990.[11] The HH-60H's official DoD and Sikorsky name is Seahawk, though it has been called "Rescue Hawk".[12] Based on the SH-60F, the HH-60H is the primary combat search and rescue (CSAR), naval special warfare (NSW) and anti-surface warfare (ASUW) helicopter. It carries a variety of defensive and offensive sensors making it one of the most survivable helicopters in the world. Sensors include a FLIR turret with laser designator and the Aircraft Survival Equipment (ASE) package including the ALQ-144 Infrared Jammer, AVR-2 Laser Detectors, APR-39(V)2 Radar Detectors, AAR-47 Missile Launch Detectors and ALE-47 chaff/flare dispensers. Additionally, airframe improvements in engine exhaust deflectors provide infrared thermal reduction reducing the threat of heat-seeking missiles. The HH-60H can carry up to four AGM-114 Hellfire missiles on an extended wing using the M299 launcher and a variety of cabin and port window mounted guns including M60D, M240, GAU-16 and GAU-17/A machine guns. The HH-60H's standard crew is pilot, copilot, an enlisted crew chief, and two door gunners. The HH-60H is operated by Helicopter Antisubmarine (HS) squadrons with a standard dispersal of four F-models and three H-models. In Iraq, HH-60Hs were used by the Navy, assisting the Army, for MEDEVAC purposes and special operations missions.[citation needed] As the Navy transitions its Helicopter Antisubmarine (HS) squadrons to the MH-60S, remaining HH-60Hs are being transferred to its East and West coast special operations squadrons (HSC-84 and HSC-85, respectively).

Crew 4 - Pilot, Co-pilot & 2 flight-engineers/door-gunners Engines 2 Two General Electric T700-GE-401-C 1,900 hp engines Dimensions L - 17.1m W (rotorspan) - 14.1m H - 4.4m Weights 6,114 kg (empty) 9,967 kg (max loadout) Max Speed 296 kph Range 463 km Armament 2 gun ports (port/starboard) : 7.62mm machine guns/miniguns and/or.50 machine guns AGM-114 Hellfires GCAL-50 Gatling Guns Maverick missiles 70mm FFAR rocket pods AIM-92 Stingers Avionics AN/AAQ-16 FLIR AN/ARN-148 Omega/VLF navigation M-130 chaff/flare dispensers AN/ALQ-144 IR jammer AN/AAR-47 Missile Warning System Radar / Laser warning receivers Ring-laser inertial navigation system Global positioning system Doppler navigation system TACAN KG-10 map display unit Weather avoidance radar Automatic flight control system

Potential weathering dream. I will post walkround shots along with progress.