Any chance of some aftermarket for my lovely new Roden kit, do you think? The decals are rather badly out of register on the red. Surely those nice TwoBobs or Albatros chaps could find some funky artwork on some Vietnam vintage OV-1?
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I just picked the kit up last weekend as well and it does look quite nice. The cockpit seems a little sparse and the ejection seats seem "passable" out of the box except that they have no belts at all.
I don't know squat about the aircraft. Does anyone have any info on the ejection seat this aircraft was fitted with and how the belts were laid out?
Thanks.......Bill
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I guess you were unlucky. The kit that I have has well registered decals. You might be able to ask Roden for another set.
Bill Shuey
Bill,
The OV-1 used the Martin-Baker Mk. J5X variants of seat, as in Mk. J5A or J5D.
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Thanks to those that replied. I checked the two sites that folks provided and each site showed a different seat. One looked just about line the one supplied in the kit but I got the impression this is a seat from a later Mohawk, perhaps a -1D. The Ejectionsite showed a MBJ5X for the OV-1A and it looks very little like the seats provided with the kit. Could it be that Roden included the late model ejection seat in an early model kit???
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Most probably - the earlier seats differed from the later seats, so I suggest using the MBJ5X for your template. Chris Miller's OV-1 front end is from a C upgraded to a D.
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