Today I present you
with a kit model of the tiny Gazelle helicopter, which was and is used in
variety of roles in many world air forces. I decided to build a Yugoslav licence-built
attack version of the Gazelle, called 'Gama-M'. Conversion required
scratchbuilding the weapon pylons, 9M14 Malyutka (NATO: AT-3 'Sagger) anti-tank
missiles and self-defence 9K32M Strela (NATO: SA-7 'Grail') air-to-air missiles
and adding some aerials. Cockpit was also further improved by adding some wires,
seatbelts and similar "goodies" to improve the looks. Gazelles were
painted with a hardly noticable two-tone camo of dark green and bronze brown,
which is not even apparent on most of the pics available.
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images below to see larger images
Decals were used from Lift
Here Gazelle set, modified to get the correct serial number for Gama.
Greetings from Slovenia!
Sebastijan
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