Hughes OH6A Cayuse "Loach"

The kit is moulded in light gray styrene and presented on three parts trees, plus a single tree of clear parts and a single fret of Eduard color photo-etch.
This isn't the first Loach kit in 1/48, the Tamiya kit has that distinction, but this is the very first OH-6A Vietnam scout accurately represented in any scale out of the box.
The interior is not laid out like a civilian Model 500 and adapted to an OH-6 as other offerings have done in the past. The cockpit floor and rear bulkhead have the reinforced structure molded into the surfaces.
The crew seats are armoured and the seat belts and shoulder harnesses are provided as color photo-etch. The instrument cluster is shaped right and the panel is smooth - to allow for the installation of the multi-layered color photo-etch instrument panel that only Eduard can do so well.

The kit has the main windscreen, two skylights, and the starboard doors provided as clear parts. No portside doors are included as this kit is designed specifically as an armed scout. The M134 minigun is provided along with its ammunition storage can.

Markings
Markings are provided for one example and what better example than Hugh Mills' "Miss Clawd IV".