Bell 47 / Sioux

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as XT200, a Westland-Bell 47G-3B-1 Sioux AH.1 light observation and training helicopter of the Army Air Corps, built by Westland under licence from Bell and powered by a turbocharged Lycoming TVO-435 flat six, kept by Newark Air Museum and painted as it is shown there as ‘F’: Army disruptive olive green and light earth camouflage with a green lower bowl and earth rear-cabin panels crossed by a green diagonal band, olive tubular boom, skids and tail, a Type D roundel and a black unit crest edged in yellow on each rear-cabin panel, a yellow triangle on each door post, a yellow-orange band round the goldfish-bowl canopy, a large black ‘F’ outlined in white on the starboard front of the bubble, grey canvas covers over the saddle tanks stencilled ‘ARMY’ in black and a red DANGER placard on the ventral plate; it is shown on its skids without ground-handling wheels, as displayed, the starboard markings follow an older photograph, the serial is not painted because no photograph shows it legibly and the engine bay is simplified. Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (594 KB) · Plate 118 in The Hangar