Menards New Coast Guard Helicopter Pictures

I haven't even taken my other Helicopters out of the box yet.

CABINET BOB,

Thank you for the great pictures of your new flat car with Coast Guard helicopter. I love the color of this new helicopter. Wonder what Menard's will be bringing next? If it's a freight car, I hope they do two. Somebody, once told me, when in doubt buy both.

Jim, that idea works well except in dating! Bob, again, great pictures! Lots happening in our lives here, good things ! So I have been a bit distracted! Starting to lose track of all the great new Menards train stuff! I have to get a grip and concentrate! LOL

Lots of great photos Cabinet Bob. The helicopter car is full of color. It is just what my layout needs. Truly over the top. Can we have an Orange copter for our Canadian friends? 

Roger Peet posted:

Lots of great photos Cabinet Bob. The helicopter car is full of color. It is just what my layout needs. Truly over the top. Can we have an Orange copter for our Canadian friends? 

Roger: Menards made this one a while back.. Bob

Is there any o scale Coast Guard helicopters with lights  and the rotors that rotate  that one can buy.

This helicopter reminds me of the one in the movie Yellow Dog.

I am curious as to what the actual scale is.

Hmmm, a true 1/48 Huey would be nice!

The same company, New Ray, I believe, produced 3 different USCG helicopters and the yellow (orange) Canada one.  The scales varied depending on which copter was modeled from 1/48 to 1/60.  I have them all but they are boxed up right now so I don't have the scale for the one used by Menards handy.

The USCG has an air station with 3 choppers at the Cherry Capital Airport, 16 air miles from us.  They fly over our house weekly on training missions toward the Straits of Mackinac and the St. Marys River, year-round, more often during summer.  We've also witnessed rescue training on Lakes Huron and Michigan when sail cruising.  The Menard's chopper appears to be an accurate model of the MH-65 Eurocopter used by the USCG.  The USCG MH-60 Jayhawk is more often seen locally.

Having spent 9 years in the USCG, the Menard's helicopter is a very good representation of the H-65.

@Darrell posted:

Having spent 9 years in the USCG, the Menard's helicopter is a very good representation of the H-65.

I did 24 active and 13 1/2 as a civilian. I flew in H-3's, C-130s and H-60's. Hence the Screen name. Its a nice looking Helo.

Thank you both for your service.

Plenty of 1/48 Heuys available to build.

https://www.google.com/search?...mp;bih=664&dpr=3

An H and a N model 1:48.  

Hard to put on a flat car with blades installed, I thought about it. Rotor diameter is 48’.  

Coast Guard bird does look good. Big stink when they bought French choppers!

As a retired SIKORSKY engineer, I’d be more enticed by a J-Hawk.

@pennsydave posted:

Big stink when they bought French choppers!

I couldn't agree with you more...
I could tell you stories of all the nasty stuff that was said about those helos in the early days. Now, the airframes are the same, but everything else has been re-engineered (Improved).

I believe New Ray did the J-Hawk also.  They made them for several branches of the military.

I just went to the New Ray website.  The USCG HH-65c Menard's used is 1/48 scale.  The Canadian Search and Rescue EH-101 I had mentioned  is 1/72 scale.  People requesting a Sikorsky UH-60 Jay Hawk, New Ray did a USCG Jay Hawk, a Black Hawk and a Sea Hawk all in 1/60 scale.  The also made  a 1/55 scale Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight.

@Jayhawk500 posted:

I couldn't agree with you more...
I could tell you stories of all the nasty stuff that was said about those helos in the early days. Now, the airframes are the same, but everything else has been re-engineered (Improved).

When we were being nice we called them screaming chickens!

French Crusiniart

You may need to hunt a bit on the Internet to find one, but a sharp looking USCG Hummer pulling a trailer with a lifeboat is available in 1:43 scale.  Here's a photo from the one I have in my collection.  It would look good in a scene where that USCG flatcar with the helicopter was spotted on a siding.

(My last layout was set in a beachside town, so a USCG vehicle with a rescue boat fit in perfectly!)

I've got one of those in my many boxes of vehicles.