Super Stallion CH-53E USMC

Eduardo Arguijo
hello D, do you have the reskit rotor? can you tell me if lets you put the blades in retracted position? thanks

David B
Hi Eduardo, sorry for the delay, busy week. The blade fold hinge is included, so you can fold the blades, however the blade pitch hinges are all modelled in the horizontal position. Looking at photos of the blades folded, you'd need to find a way to rotate the pitch hinges somehow to get the blades to fold back in the correct way, without the blades all conflicting with each other.

Eduardo Arguijo
Thank you D! It was helpfull.

Cheers!

David B
I've finished this one Eduardo, and can confirm that the blades can be folded without too much difficulty using the reskit set. See photos. Just need to cut the rotor part of the hinge off and rotate it a little (different angle for each blade). If you use the tail fold set from reskit, it needs a lot of work to get it to fit, and also note that the fold line given in the italeri kit does not really allow the tail to fold back to the corrrect position.. if you see my photos i have had to angle to folded tail down a bit to get it to set at the correct height.