Westland-Fairey Rotocrane HC4

[scooter]

But is it that "rich crushed velour" that Chrysler used to have Khan Noonian Singh hawk back in the 70s?

[PR19_Kit]

But is it that "rich crushed velour" that Chrysler used to have Khan Noonian Singh hawk back in the 70s?

Anything but! It just looks good as a background for pics. 

[zenrat]

Looks like ST:TOS Red Shirt uniform material to me.  You a secret Trek cosplayer Kit?

[PR19_Kit]

Looks like ST:TOS Red Shirt uniform material to me.  You a secret Trek cosplayer Kit?

Hehehe, not at all, but I have a couple of friends who are! 

[scooter]

Looks like ST:TOS Red Shirt uniform material to me.  You a secret Trek cosplayer Kit?

He's still alive.  If he is, it's not as a red shirt.

[PR19_Kit]

My three RAF 100 GB builds will slow down a bit till the weekend's over. I've got a big railway event on at Crewe this weekend and the medics have just given me the OK to drive that far. 

The organisers there sent me an email on Sunday asking would it be possible for me to give them a talk about tilt systems while I'm up there! 

While I can probably do the actual talking from my head, it'll take a while to build the illustrations into a suitable visual presentation.

[NARSES2]

Looks rather decadent to me  Mine's rather Scandinavian 

[PR19_Kit]

Looks rather decadent to me  Mine's rather Scandinavian 

You haven't seen the rest of it............... 

[NARSES2]

 

[PR19_Kit]

I've been trying to build the Rotocrane's rotor, but as it has components from FOUR different kits, none of which are designed to fit each other of course, it's not that simple.

I wanted it to have BIG blades because it's a heavy lift chopper, so the largest around are those from a Chinook, and luckily I have a couple of them, one an Airfix HC2 and one an Italeri MH-47E. Actually they're the same basic kit, thank goodness, so the blades are matching shapes, but I need six blades going in the SAME direction, so I needed half of the blades from one kit and half from the other...... [No, I have NO idea what I'm going to do with the other bits....]

Why six blades? Because I think it needs more than the puny four on the normal 'dyne, so it uses the hub from an Airfix Super Jolly Green Giant, and the shaft and the tip jets from the two 'dyne kits that I used for the fuselage etc.

It's taking an age to build as gluing the blades to the hub takes 5-6 hrs or so each because they have to be really solid before I start on the next one. At this rate it's going to take all week, so no pics just yet. 

[Old Wombat]

You're a bleedin' masochist, mate!

[TheChronicOne]

You're a bleedin' masochist, mate!

I was gonna say.. . . ..   

[PR19_Kit]

You're a bleedin' masochist, mate!

I'm starting to think that should be spelt  I D I OT

3 blades on now........

[Knightflyer]

You're a bleedin' masochist, mate!

I'm starting to think that should be spelt  I D I OT

3 blades on now........

You mean you're not going to follow this up with an eight-bladed interlinked contra-rotating Kamanesque version 

[PR19_Kit]

You're a bleedin' masochist, mate!

I'm starting to think that should be spelt  I D I OT

3 blades on now........

You mean you're not going to follow this up with an eight-bladed interlinked contra-rotating Kamanesque version 

Well, maybe next week.....

I have got a complete spare rotor pylon of course.