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yes I really prefer to mostly shape the wires before glueing them up, so quite a bit of fiddling abou, checking fit, repeating, etc. once the wire shape is mostly correct, the wires get painted and slotted into the already-glued connectors on the part. Connectors are the 3D printed ones from Anyz, amazing for scratch building just about anything!

Finished up internal wiring for the canopy, I think these wires are for the canopy charges. Once the canopy is mounted I’ll connect the wiring on the side pillars to loose wires on the side of the pilots instrument panel coming. Slow progress as I’ve started working on the ICM AH-1G in parallel - quite fun having two very different eras of the same fundamental helo.

What sort of issue are you having? gaps, interference, etc? The Zulu canopy dry-fit quite well (hallelujah) but that seems to be a rarity for me and helos...

Thanks as always Floyd - I have emailed you!

Question for the experts: Does anyone know where the pilot/CPG radio wires come out from? It seems they are coming up from near the collective for the pilot here, looping around the cable the runs lengthwise along the canopy (what is that cable for, btw?), and then attaching to the helmet with an inline device (volume control?) as well. What about the CPG?

Indeed! I missed out on the Werner's Wings run, so Mason's release is a lifesaver. Already ordered and received 😄

Thanks gents! got the door interiors finished, with rivets, armour, door handles (inside and metal outside), canopy charges, and mounts for the opening mechanism struts (leaving that till the end) Now on to the wiring for the canopy charges.

Exciting stuff, will be following along with much interest! Have the Academy rendition of the Yankee on order.

Absolutely correct. I committed early to Academy's specification, so will live with it! Quite hard to see it now that I've dry-fitted the canopy. Speaking of which - I got the canopy jettison charge and interior canopy painting completed. Also added hooks, straps, and mount for canopy jettison charge junction box thing. Still need to do wiring for the charges and also add metal struts for the canopy doors using albion tubing. Then we can call the canopy interior done. Also modded the switches in front of the copilot/gunner - the kit part has very bad detailing, no rivets, no wire coming u

Hmmm...don't look now, but those horizontal stabs seem to be inverted!

Looks brilliant!

Fantastic partnership. Should be a win-win for everyone. Also, great to see you branching out into army products @Dave Roof, hopefully the first of many!

@Dave RoofSnowman directly told me that the Trumpy Whiskey was not their design, so that one is still due a release. My hunch is Trumpeter acquired the WIP Kitty hawk AH-1W and UH-1B/C designs, hence their decent quality. The difference to full Trumpeter efforts seems very obvious. The Trumpeter model seems to work when they’re the only player in town for a given kit - then they can charge whatever they want and you have no option but to pay if you want that particular aircraft. When they go head to head with another manufacturer they can’t compete - the price is compar

Oh man, that feels heretical!

Thanks @Floyd S. Werner, Jr. - looks like kit decals it is!