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AGM-114 1/12th Hellfire Missile Set
Class: 20-25 Models
SPS013

Most commonly seen on the Apache and modernized Cobra helicopters, the Hellfire missiles deliver pin point accuracy and are typically fitted with an armor-piercing warhead for tanks and armored vehicles. Missile sets contain 4 missiles and include all the components to complete each missile.

Length: 4 5/8" [11.75cm]
Diameter: 1/2" [12.7mm]
Wing Span: 1" [25.4mm]

SPS013  1/12th Hellfire Missile Set (4)  $19.95 

In 1974, the US Army announced the development of the Hellfire Missile System as a new 'anti-tank' or tank buster weapons system to be launched from helicopters to hit armored tanks and vehicles. Early versions were laser-guided but modern variants now use radar guided technology and are mounted to helicopters, aircraft, UAVs, naval and land based units. Production began in 1982 and a modernized Hellfire II started in the early 1990's using semi-active laser variants to deliver a multi-role missile system with different warheads: high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT), blast fragmentation and metal augmentation charge (MAC).

Each Hellfire missile consists of a main rocket body, a nose cone, a tail cone, 4 front guide-vanes and 4 rear guide-vanes. The rocket fins are balsa and can be primed before or after attachment to the rocket body, however, priming before assembly will reveal any spots in the balsa that need a little filler. If there are any spots in the molded parts, these can be filled using plastic modeling putty found at any hobbyshop. Apply only enough to fill the void with a little extra that will be sanded off once it is dry.

Assembly Instructions:

1. Choose one end of the rocket tube body for the front. Using a pencil, make four marks, equally spaced around the body of the tube to ensure that each fin is positioned 90° to each other. Hold the tube body in a door frame and extend each of the original marks from the end to just past the length of the front fins and at the same time, draw the rear fin centerlines. Using medium cyanoacrylate glue, bond each of the front fins to the rocket body, aligning the front edge of the fins to the front edge of the tube. Bond the nose cone into the front end.

2. Repeat the procedure to bond the rear fins and the tail cone into the rocket body. If you are scratch building the Hellfire mount racks, then take the time now to finalize the mounts. Once the glue is completely dry, the rocket can be painted to match your model using regular Enamel spray paint from your local hobby shop. If you are building a glow fuel or gasoline powered model, then make sure that the paint used is fuel proof.