This has been a fun build so far. Good fit and I love the content. These fly over my house all the time. If I ever need to check a color, I can just look outside!
I plan on using the Eduard Big Ed set and the Cobra Company resin interior parts. Its my first time using resin parts so I look forward to breaking most of them but oh well…
Rotor head put together and all plumed up. Highlighted with Alclad Duraluminum.
Just this assembly is like 50 parts!
Next up masking the blades.
That rotor head is fantastic!
Thanks. I used annealed copper wire and heated the tips so as to melt it into the plastic so it would hold better.
Rotors masked, painted, assembled. Next: resin interior.
So you are going with the folded rotor option?
A wise choice for display space purposes… plus they look really cool when they are all folded up including the tail.
Yup! all folded up. I dont have near enough space for the flight version. also it makes it easier to put on a tidy little dio base.
I can imagine they would be pretty big. Good that they have the option!
I have the Super Stallion hanging over my computer, it has a ceiling footprint bigger than a 1/48 F-4
Following the wip of my favourite copter [:P] it’s huge!
Black stallions group are the same i occasionally see fliyng over my sea ,he’s take off from sigonella base
More progress. Im using resins for the first time so its taking me forever. Also used the “hairspray” technique for the first time. Not sure that it looks quite right, but this was my fifth stripping and repaint try.
I really like the seat cushion detail and the cargo floor weathering is awesome too.
Coming along more this past weekend. I also bought a Tamiya “Handy Drill”. that was an excursion in and of itself.
The detail your putting into this thing is amazing…
LOL
Great updates there
Ok, so REALLY enjoying this build. So, I put alot of detail into the interior but of course when I test fit the fuselage, all that disappeared. Then I got it in my head that maybe I should light it. I spent a couple of days figuring out how and googling, etc. I have NEVER worked with any kind of electronics before today. It was actually easier than it was made to seem.
Step #1: goto Radio Shack. Find the nerd and ask him how to set up a simple LED.
Step #2: buy the Breakaway Breadboard, LEDs of whatever color, and Battery Pack that he/she gives you. If they are nice they will set it up for you in the store.
Here’s what i came up with in the end after a couple hours planning and drilling.
this is the breadboard with the LEDs in series. all you have to do is plug them in the same way (one pole is longer than the other). Plug the battery pack in to match red-red, black-black (pos/neg). I drilled holes in the “ceiling” on the interior with a Dremel and a bigger-ish drill bit. The holes were made to fit the LEDs perfectly.
Here’s the basic effect. I put the battery pack underneath the roof. It fit nicely (lucky) and it looks like a piece of internal equipment to the helicopter.
I put the battery pack in such a place where I can take the battery out easily and within reach of fingers.
LOL blue lights [H]
Best way was to put batteries in the central piece back the rotor head with a sort of door
Very cool mod with those lights!
Been awhile. Some updates from the weekend. Main assembly together, all the photoetch pieces on (Eduard interior, seatbelts,exterior set used). So many little fiddly PE parts…
Primed, masked, and preshaded.
Hopefully I’ll get paint laid down sometime this week.
Thanks for critique!
no critics ,just wishing one [:P]