I've always read that the Matchbox kit ws just a reboxing of the Monogram 1/72 kit. Well, yesterday I rec'd an old Monogram Huey Cobra Team set. In the box was also a Matchbox AH-1G kit & yet another loose Monogram AH-1G. Well, the kits are not the same. Not even close in sprue layout & breakdown, tho they're both AH-1Gs. Where & how did the tale about the Matchbox & Monogram kits being the same get started?
Matchbox 1/72 AH-1G vs Monogram 1/72 AH-1G Q
Aug 07, 2003
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Uh, on the internet? :-)
Which side of the tail boom is the tail rotor on the Matchbox kit as compared with the Monogram kit?
Tom
Thanks. The reason I ask is that prototype and some pre-production Hueycobras had the tail rotor on the left side.
Tom
So Monogram's is a pre-production version? IIRC their first F-14 kit was based on the mockup.
All my kits are simular, but more of a c*ck up
The prototype and the inital batches (not just pre-prod) of AH-1Gs had the T/R on the left side. Later production batches had the T/R on the right side, and most earlier A/C were later modified to also have the T/R on the right side.
There also were other smallish detail differences between G-model Cobra batches, like where various antennae, louvers, lights, instrumentation, and panel lines were.
John Hairell ( snipped-for-privacy@erols.com)
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