Specifically Special Hobby’s 1/48 scale Sikorsky R-4B?
This will be my first helicopter so it’s new teritory for me. Shedding the wings for props this month. Figured it was fitting to start with a first like the R-4B.
Helicopters have wings!
We cannot help it if we prefer to have our wings spinning happily over head and actually doing something than just sitting there attached to the body occasionally flapping about!
I have built MCM’s 1/72 R4 but would be interested in your review of the Special Hobby kit. I would not recommend the MCM kit, most of the pieces are actually part of the sprue and darn hard to get off.
Don
OK… shedding the “stationary” wings…
So far the cockpit is going together rather well. No showstoppers or “What the…'s?” yet. A few parts do take some extra preparation but it’s nothing any modeler who has worked with multi-media kits (polyurethane, photo-etch, and vacuform parts) cannot handle.
Looks like I got a challenge ahead assembling the gear. Instructions call for some spure stretching. Always an adventure.
Keep the shots coming Quag,
Srue stretching? Man count me out on that one!!
Don
Wow…looks pretty good. I’d also be interested in further developments as I am a closet helicopter junkie and forgive me for saying this…whisperwhen the lights are out, I dream of wheeling about in a 65 ton tracked vehicle with a very big gun on the front.