SA330 Puma 1:32

[Mustang]

WOWED! Detailing city ! Awesome ...

Cheers Morris, I'm not as quick as you when building your last one inside a month

I'm still working on this 4 months later oh well might get it done some time next year

Need to make sure my next one is a straight forward OFTB build that would happen aftermarket bits again

[casper]

Great work.

Cheers Steve. It's been fun trying to workout how to make the bits I wanted. Still have to work on fire wall, rotor unit, rotor head, stow the blades and rear tail unit. But I can't put the cockpit in until I've worked all that out in case I need to add weights to counteract the blades. I have designed and printed new rotor blade fixtures where the blades join the head unit but still building up the nerve to cut the blades as once cut no going back

Loving your work Ian superb stuff
looking forward to seeing the rotor blades with the new printed fixtures
casp

[Mustang]

Main cover above cockpit


Didn't like the filter parts so replaced them

[Mustang]

So I've added detail to the engines


Internal section scratched built






The small blue bit I realised was in the wrong place later on so that was removed.

[Mustang]

Main roter unit as per the kit.




Added some detail and removed the front support arm as the kit puts it in the wrong place.

[Mustang]

Centre wall added to the engines.


And then some more detail added.


As per the blue bit that I put in the wrong place

[Mustang]

[Mustang]

The centre wall as per the kit, except for the round piece at the front which I added.


Added some detail, and placed the front engine support where it should have been.

[Mustang]

Then onto the rear section of the engine compartment.

These two parts are wrong, the right one should be in two parts and the left one should only be one single piece.



So after some cutting I ended up with these.

[Mustang]

The rear exhaust unit supports where also wrong.


So after a little messing around.


This is what I made to replace the part I removed from the two earlier bits

[Mustang]

Added some detail to the top section


This is how it looks at the moment, all the bits are just dried fitted.




This is where It stands at the moment, I have started on the two front engine cowlings and the rear section that slides back so more later.

That is unless the Pocher kits take over

[Morris]

Awesome scratch building and detailing work!

[Mark]

What Morris said!! Fantastic work!

[casper]

Loving all the additions Ian, makes all the difference. excellent
What is the yellow plastic wire you used for the engine, looks very good.
mark

[Mustang]

Cheers guys for looking in.

Hi Casper, the plastic wire is just some thin wire I have nothing special.

[Mustang]

Ok ok I now its been a while for this to get an update, so here is a little bit more.

This took a little while as trying to find info on what I wanted wasn't forthcoming, and I could only fine a couple of good photos for what I wanted.

So the engine fairings, yes those bits that open and close on the top as one person said to me when I asked for info

The kit parts are very plan and no detail what so ever.

[Mustang]

So what could I do to make them look better as there going to be open

First added a simple piece of wire to act as the hinge's




Next I cut out the top vents and added some wire mesh.


Oh yer I also added a small piece of tubing "cotton bud" inside the tail rotor to act as the drive shaft

[Mustang]

And finally the fairings.

Simple rule if its not grey its been added.




Looks a bit ruff in some places, but I'll sort that out once I've added some primer.


Cut out the handle area then added some card behind, then made some handles.

[Mustang]

Dry run to see how they would look.

[Mark]

A lot of detail added there ! Looking superb!