strikeeagle801 Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 (edited) This build could also go in the Living History GB, but I decided to put it here instead. Last summer, two major fires broke out in the Central Washington area. One was man-made, caused by a welding spark hitting bone-dry brush, and the other caused by lightning. Both times, the Washington National Guard was called in with UH-60 Blackhawks and CH-47 Chinooks. I'm choosing to model one of the Blackhawks stationed here during both fires. I'm starting out with the Academy UH-60L, and am adding the following to it: Werner's Wings UH-60 Blackhawk stencil set Cobra Company Set #35002 H-60 Blackhawk detail set Cobra Company Set #35004 UH-60L Correction Set Eduard UH-60 interior and exterior sets Eduard Express Mask So, here's a picture of what I am staring with: Here's the resin drying after a wash in Purple Power and a rinse in water And here's what I'm hoping to end up with: The "Mission Markings" were added while they were fighting the fires in order to make them more visible in the smoke and trees. I'll be including them in my build as well. Most of my reference material will come from the pictures I took last summer. Thank you to Mason Doupnik, Erick Swanberg and Floyd Werner for the help they have already given me in this build. Aaron Edited March 18, 2013 by strikeeagle801 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
strikeeagle801 Posted March 17, 2013 Author Share Posted March 17, 2013 I should have some work to show tonight. The main rotor mast comes in two parts, with a nasty seam down the middle. When I tried to sand down the seam, I lost some detail, so I have built a new mast out of metal and plastic tube/rod. This is the first time I have ever attempted to scratch build anything, and I'm happy with the results so far. Aaron Quote Link to post Share on other sites
strikeeagle801 Posted March 18, 2013 Author Share Posted March 18, 2013 Here's my progress thus-far. As I said in the post above, the main rotor mast comes in two parts, and I wanted to build something that was more solid, and did not have any seam lines I needed to worry about. So, starting out with aluminum and plastic tubing of various widths and some plastic rod, here's what I came up with. Original Academy part on the left, mine on the right: I also drilled out the APU inlet and installed some plastic tubing there as well. Not much to show, but it is a start! Aaron Quote Link to post Share on other sites
strikeeagle801 Posted April 2, 2013 Author Share Posted April 2, 2013 Wow...Awefully quiet in here... I decided I was not happy with my first attempt (or my second, third, fourth, etc) so I kept going with plastic tube until I was happy with my new rotor mast. I still have to take some steel wool to it to get rid of some of the cutting/sanding burrs, but this is the final product. Now I can move on with the rest of the model. Aaron Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ALF18 Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Aaron It's so quiet because some of us have to keep up appearances - it is just not "done" to show an interest in rotary wing aircraft... What will my friends think? One buddy of mine described flying helicopters to me. He compared it to an activity that Seinfeld refered to as being the "master of his own domain" - he said it's a heck of a lot of fun, but nobody would ever admit to doing it!!! That being said, I am impressed with your "machining" skills. I think this will be more complicated than a Strike Eagle. ALF Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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