I got the other version of the 1/18 scale black hawk and it has M134 Mini Guns on each door just in back of the pilot's front doors , but doesn't have the drop tanks, I also have the 1/18 Bell OH-58 Kiowa and the 1/18 scale Huey that says Easy Rider on the side. I want to get the AH -6 little bird. I also bought Elite Forces Seal time 5 piece kit, they look great on the Black hawk and the Bell Kiowa.
anti collision light is on top of the tail. the red component on top of the cabin is the ALQ-144 inferred missel counter measures. the big fin on the tail is the stabalator. the rope hoist on the side is actually a cable rescue hoist. in an actual blackhawk there are 4 seats in the very back with another 4 seats facing them with 3 seats facing forward and the 2 crewchief seats. the box on the tail boom is the chaff dispenser. The wings are the esss (external stores support system).if you have any questions about what else is on the blackhawk comment and i will answer. I know this because I am a retired blackhawk crewchief with thousands of flight hours logged on blackhawks.
I have way less time around these and only the M model (which this is not) but I’ll piggy back off Charles’ expert comment here. You’re correct that the strips on the stabilator are lights (they kind of appear like big glow in the dark strips) and not reflectors, they’re called Formation Lights and there should be two more of them on the tail boom, one near the cabin and one near the tail pylon-in nighttime formation flight a tailing aircraft can line them up in different ways to help maintain a steady angle (typically 30 or 45 degrees). The fuselage is indeed called a fuselage as well haha! ACFT just stands for aircraft, though I don’t actually know what the TF is for.
It is also not on top of the Cabin. It is on top of the Main Rotor Pylon Area or Section 6. It is specifically mounted over the main transmission oil cooler radiator.
I wish I'd bought more than just one of these helicopters from Toys R Us when they had them. I had two of the AH-6 Little Birds and used them for a Black Hawk Down display where the three choppers were in flight with Rangers and Delta Operators from different toy lines
Oh I want one of those!!! Friend of mine was painting one for me in Australian Army Livery. I have over 3500 hours piloting them. To answer some of your questions mate. 1:13 yes it's an external fuel tank as part of the External Extended Range Fuel System, EERFS (We call em' jugs!). You can fit four jugs on the HSS but the struts are all wrong on this model as they are supposed to attach next to the pylon, not to it. 3:09 Horizontal Stores Support HSS (Wings), but yes the fuel tanks do connect to the "pylons" below. No the Black Hawk didn't have weapons on the HSS, just Jugs. Battle Hawk has the weapons. Only Door Guns for Black Hawk. 3:25 Those are Position Lights. The Red on the Left and should be a Green on the right. For Port and Starboard lights like a ship. Unfortunately this model seems to have a blue on the right. 4:27 That's the hoist. For hoisting (winching) people up and down the wire. Not rappelling. Rappelling is done from the Fast Rope Insertion Extraction System, FRIES, which comes out of the cabin doors both sides attached to the roof. 4:43 It's a stablitor... not a stabilizer.. It's a fly-by-wire component that does a few things for the Black Hawk, but mostly to move from full down in the hover to trailing edge up around zero for foward flight which provides stability and helps it slow down when coming back to the hover. 5:08 Fuselage is correct. Made up of the nose, cockpit, cabin, transition section, tail boom and tail rotor pylon. 5:18 What you are grabbing this is the Hover Infrared Supression System, HIRSS module, on the exhaust. It reduces the IR signature of the hot exhause by mixing cooler air with the exhaust. 5:30 That's the FM homing antenna. 6:12 That's not the ani-collision light. It's an IRCM. AN/ALQ-144 which is an IR missle counter measure Jammer which uses IR energy to confuse and prevent lockon of IR missle seeker heads. 7:23 Those are lights, they are formation lights. Visible lights that also reflect sunlight for day formation flight. There should be two more. One in between the engine exhausts on the centreline, and one halfway down the tail boom on the centreline. You line these up for the 2 Rotor Diameter formation positions for left and right of the lead aircraft. Thanks for posting and hope I've answered everthing. BTW, I have no idea what some of those decals means. The anchor is the anchor point, and usually has another symbol for the jacking point. But other than that, the serial numbers look legit. Happy modelling!
1:20 it means use only tank fill-able aircraft and black hawks can hold weapons, its less common but some are armed with m134 miniguns, lau-3 rocket pods, or have m134s or .50s on the side
Remove the rotors, invert it, paint it white with red markings and black signage, and it could be a spaceship of the Rebel Alliance in a Star Wars movie.
I bought this 1:18 Black Hawk several years back but never got around to opening it. Same exact model/box as the one you have- thank you for opening it, now I know what to expect. Elite Force makes pretty detailed models for the price.
Worked on development of the Blackhawk. Tail rotor needs to be canted for actual depiction of aircraft. Also noticed collectives in cockpit were missing.
I wish you luck in getting the f-18 . f-16 jets , they will be quite pricey around $ 800.00 + each now , I had 3 f-18's blue angels , black vampire, and the original f-18 not sure of the squadron , there was also a red devils version too , didn't have that one and I had 2 f-16's as well I sold them all and got $ 3, 500 on ebay 13 years ago used that money as a down payment on my harley in 2008 . At times I do wish I still owned them but riding my Harley was well worth it . I sold off my entire helicopter collection too , all 3 of my spitfires , both my zeros too as I have serious health issues and needed the funds for medical expenses . Not a day goes by that I wish I hadn't needed to sell them just to survive .I love your videos as they bring back such great memories of the aircraft I sold off keep up the great work . one bright note I still have lots of aircraft left about 30 or 40 yet still in factory sealed unopened boxes , I plan on keeping them for many years to come god willing with my health .
@@MilitaryVehicleReviews I hope you do keep them as they will bring you joy later in life and the value of each aircraft will keep going up and up since they are no longer in production and as you probably already know just finding them is becoming quite difficult most collectors don't sell them unless they need the funds or want to make a big cash score , also you will regret selling them if you do as I do and you'll wish you had them back . Store your aircraft away if you can as I said they go up in value every year as they highly sought after .
The anchor is where you tie-down to. I only used them once and that was for tie-down on a C-5. The anti collision light is mounted underneath the tailboom. Crewchiefs on army acft sit on the side of the tail rotor and this is why the hoist/winch is mounted there. The red looking light is the ALQ144. It's not red. It's like individual mirrors that have a smokey yellow look if my memory is right. I gonna subscribe. Thx
Horrible seams on the fuselage but overall, for a toy it looks reasonably well done. The scuffing and shipping is in illogical places. It would have been nice if the main and tail rotors were linked.
I had one of these back in the day and they were just awesome!! BBI made THE BEST 1:18 scale vehicles back in the day. I had this and I had the Apache. Both are just monsters because of their scale. Unfortunately both were lost during a move about 15 years ago. I am so jealous that you happened upon this.
You installed the doors backwards, the handle goes forward. The level of detail is impressive in most areas, but weirdly off in others. For instance the support struts for the wings attach at the top of the vertical pylon, not at the bottom. An additional fuel tank can go on that pylon. The rear facing row of seats has 4 across in a real UH-60, for a total of 11 passenger seats and 4 crew seats. The rope piece is a rescue hoist, not a rappel device. Another part that is oddly off is the bifilar assembly. This is the cross piece on top of the rotor head. On a real aircraft it is offset 45 degrees from the orientation of the blades. The holes in the bifilar assembly are not empty on a real rotor head, they actually have free floating counter-weights to help with vibration absorbsion. I am sure I would find more issues if I watched the video a few more times, but it would probably drive me crazy as a Blackhawk crew chief.
Had I made such a build, I would appreciate you for your experience and expertise for how you would enable me to enhance my accuracy. I only wish I could find people like you in every field PRIOR to my commencing assembly. In fact, if I could afford it, I would build two: the second for the accuracy consultant. I have seen masterful types who could impart details that had me shaking with awe! A car in 1:25th scale with a key in the ignition, and some rod that connected all the cylinders for the engine's piston cycle; and literally HUNDREDS of similar details! He could be working in a museum making master works of historical dioramas! He is a South Korean fellow who for his mediocre English skills could not quite explain what I had wanted. Frankly, were I rich, I would pay him full-time just to build kits for me, just so I could watch pending my own build!
i removed and installed a lot of bifilar bushings on SH-60S in the Navy. As soon as I saw that word I was triggered...what a pain in the ass those were lol.
fun fact , those mil spec paint codes are correct , like the one on Rotor blade MIL-C-461003 i believe thats correct for that age of aircraft , anywhere you see markings like "TM" its referring to the aircrafts "Technical Manual" telling you where to find information for repairs/Inspection. a while back they switched main fuselage to a water based carc paint but rotor blades are still painted with a solvent based paint.
This mold and the F-18 are the best bbi products in the modern line. The attention to detail. Drewl!!!!! Whoever owns the molds...3x 2000 retail (current price under $180.00) would sell these out in under a day.
Cool video. Yea I that one , as well as there ah64 apache, kiawa and little birds hanging from my ceiling in the Man cave. Its cool how big these toys are. You don't seen any one else making stuff like this anymore. I wish they would have released other wind accessories like mini guns and different rockets for these.
@@MilitaryVehicleReviews cool,yea the unboxing and setting up is the best part. Mine are all Hung on ceiling already. I did show them in my man cave tour but did not spend alot of time on them. Great video.
The anchor is to strap the seahawk variant of the chopper to a deck of a ship wether its a (DDG) destroyer, a (CG) cruiser. But mainly aircraft carriers. Like the Nimitz class. And even the wasp class amphibious assault transport ships.
@@MilitaryVehicleReviews chopper looks great btw. I wonder if you can motorize the rotors? I build models which are delicate sometimes so it just seemed so unnatural to me. 😉
I have one of these and could not find anything on them, until RU-vid threw this video at me randomly. Sadly it has a broken(and repaired) rotor blade but I'm gonna have to get rid of it soon for space reasons. Was neat to finally find out what brand it was though
Nice one i have this same one in my collection. One thing i did find with it that the Fuselage scale seems to be out of wack....have a close look at it,but well done another one for your Collection.
Collective is a control method and mechanical action (not a part like a rotor head) It's how the ship applies power and changes the pitch of ALL blades to climb or add power... To control pitch or roll helis use Cyclic which changes the pitch depending on 360 location of the blade.
The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-blade, twin-engine, medium-lift utility military helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft. Sikorsky submitted the S-70 design for the United States Army's Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System competition in 1972
Thank you lot for your acknowledgement ❤️ . I saw someone building a polystyrene model kit of a McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier USMC Attack Aircraft in 1:18th scale. It would have to be HUGE!
The uh 60 black hawk was a completely different thing from the huey. The uh 60 black hawk was also made by a completely diffrent company named sikorsky.
The blades will over time sag down. Which is very disappointing given the expense. It's not a bad model, but it can use some serious work. Unfortunately it's made in China. Which utilizes cheap labor and very poor quality control. It's a nice model with lots of room for improvements.
Once you hit 10k subs can you do a room tour or where ever you put those models, I would love to see where you put them if it’s on the roof,desk or anything! Great video!
the black hawk does have weapons 2 models attack and transport attack comes with rocket pods and minigun pods and transport has M134 miniguns on the sides for the troops either in the windows or doors
Antikollisionslicht ist oben auf dem Heck. Die rote Komponente oben auf der Kabine sind die von ALQ-144 abgeleiteten Raketenabwehrmaßnahmen. Die große Flosse am Schwanz ist der Stabalator. der Seilzug an der Seite ist eigentlich ein Seilrettungszug. In einem echten Blackhawk gibt es 4 Sitze ganz hinten, weitere 4 Sitze sind ihnen zugewandt, 3 Sitze sind nach vorne gerichtet und die 2 Crewchief-Sitze. Die Box am Heckausleger ist der Spreuspender. Die Wings sind das esss (External Stores Support System). Wenn Sie Fragen dazu haben, was sonst noch auf dem Blackhawk-Kommentar steht, werde ich antworten. Ich weiß das, weil ich ein pensionierter Blackhawk-Crewchief mit Tausenden von Flugstunden auf Blackhawks bin.
Great video. I miss seeing these on the shelves at Toys R Us. I gave away my BBi Black Hawk because it took up too much space. I still have two BBi LAV 's and an Elite Force Little Bird still in the box, though.
I have one of these. Believe it or not, one of my teachers back in high school had it hanging in her room. Big collector and military buff she knew I thought it was cool so she gave it to me. For free. No joke. Downsized my collection around 18 but still I have this years later.
Great model & review! Excellent model engineering for fast & easy assembly. The detailed crew figures in different action poses in the UH-60 helicopter model bring "life" to the model, & would look great in a diorama. The large 1/18 scale is amazing! Does the door winch cable raise & lower? I used to have a G.I. Joe helicopter toy years ago, & it had an operating winch, as I recall, & the toy was quite large. But otherwise, it was basically a generic "helicopter"(not based on any real helicopter), & was simple on detail. I would have much rather had this UH-60 helicopter model, but it didn't exist then-lol!
The small print on some of the model parts is called "stenciling", it is spray painted on a part or section of a (full size) aircraft using a stencil mask. Stenciling is used on aircraft & equipment, & the stencil information is for maintenance personnel. The "anchor point" stencil is for a tie-down location to secure the helicopter from movement in high winds, I believe. There would be several of these anchor points on the helicopter.
@@MilitaryVehicleReviews On the G.I. Joe helicopter toy, the winch was operated by rotating a ring with fingers, if I recall correctly (winch was not motorized), & the rotors would spin by repeatedly pressing on a button located below the rotor mast. But for all that, it was a large cool kid's toy, not a scale & detailed model, like your UH-60 helicopter, which is awesome!
The MH-60L DAP variant of the Blackhawk is armed with heavy weapons and is used by the 160th SOAR. Most UH-60's other than the Medevac variants are equipped with miniguns directly behind the pilot's seat.
i had one of these but it was all black. I got it like 15 years ago for $20. I still have the pilots. The helicopter was so big i had to throw it away bc I needed space in my small room.
It was like 2009 parents were shopping at Walmart I wanted it and they got it for me for Christmas. Best Blackhawk ever not like the cheap plastic ones you’ll see
