Whirlybird

Looking good. REAL good.

Thank you. Appreciate that.

Thanks. Getting excited to finish this. Decal application...not looking forward to that.

Loose trial fit of parts

Masked off the cockpit to get Olive drab applied

Your work is......inspirational. Great stuff.

I got tired of waiting for a 1/48th OH-23 so I started a scratch built.

Trial fitting parts. Need to do interior and cockpit details, tail boom drive shaft, door frames on canopy, various antenna, final painting and decals.

After test fitting and trimming the joint lines on the canopy halves - I set the two parts together on my mold, secured the two halves and glued them at the overlap. This was the part I was most concerned about, as I started the build dimensioning from pictures. Looks like it works. Scratch building is a challenge as you have to organize the work sequentially and there are no instruction/assembly sheets...you just have to rely on experience building kits.

Thank you....if the fishbowl canopy halves go together ok, I'll be on the home stretch.

Thank you...been a real challenge.

Found some main rotor blades in the parts stash that cut down to proper size.

Thank you. Working that Vacuform canopy...switched to a 0.015 inch thick sheet.

Fabricated the tail rotor