Mountain Rescue Alouette III
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Pieces of Hellers kit in a very strange light - almost transparent - blue, Brenguns PE set and some Whirly Bird bits destined for the interior.
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Parts for the engine.
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The Whirly Bird skis assembled and soldered.
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That Whirly Bird piece looked way too coarse.
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The tail guard was replaced by one made from brass wire as I didn't like neither the plastic nor the PE one.
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Further details of the rotor head. Even at Brenguns PE set important pieces are missing. My spare box provided them.
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Lets put some color on. Quite happy with the blue-grey I was looking for.
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Interior is black all over
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The first steps to color the engine.
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I found the kits main gear too coarse and its detail too soft. So I decided to build it anew.
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Not sure yet whether to use the sitting...
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... or the kneeing guy.
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So let's paint them both. I used brown instead of black as base.
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After the highlights the orange looked too pale (left figure) so that I gave the guys a wash/filter with highly diluted red (right guy).
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Hm. Somehow the pics do not show the effort that went into those figures. But that will have to do and they will populate the cockpit soon.
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Started to build a little diorama for the chopper. It will land on a glacier with a crevasse. A box was build from Balsa wood.
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Filling for the box
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Next step will be to cut the crevasse into it.
Comments
19 17 February 2023, 17:38
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Welcome on board Alex, Schivko, Marius and David.
Yeah Marius, there are a lot of delicate outside details that will make handling this bugger quite a challenge.
17 February 2023, 21:41
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Looks like this is going to be one really up-detailed little chopper 👍 Following and looking forward to see the rescue scene!
18 February 2023, 12:43
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Lovely detailing so far Michael. These little helos are so delicate but satisfying in the end, and who doesn't love an Alouette?
21 February 2023, 10:33
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Thanks Gary for your motivating comment. And yes, it is hard not to like an Alouette. I am still very eager to get my hands on an Extratech Alouette II in scale 1:72. But for now the Alouette III is king. 🙂.
21 February 2023, 13:18
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Grand progress. And always good to learn another German 150-letter-vocabulary 😋
12 April 2023, 18:25
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Lukasz, I was wondering which word you were referring to, but I think it is "Maschinenschraubstock", isn´t it? I would even call it a "Minimaschinenschraubstock", or "Minimaschinenschraubstöckchen". Anyway, you can never have enough german 150-letter-words. 😉
Thank you guys for your interest. The build is a bit on hold as I would like to finish two or maybe even three other works for Moson. Stay tuned.
13 April 2023, 15:49
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The PJ Production figures are not the hottest thing under the sun but for a heli crew they are about the only option. Finally I finished them even if I am not very satisfied with the result. Next step will be to tweak all the controls into their hands.
9 June 2023, 15:22
Album info
Hellers 1:72 Alouette III in a mountain rescue scene