WIP: Eurocopter BK-117 "Space Design" D-HBKS
1June 24, 2024The Kit
2June 24, 2024Sprue "1"
3June 24, 2024Sprue"2"
4June 24, 2024Clearsprue
5June 24, 2024Decals
6June 24, 2024Instructions
7June 24, 2024Details Exterior
8June 24, 2024Details Inside
9June 24, 2024Detail Seats
10July 7, 2024I started by removing the ejector pin marks on the cabin inside...
11July 7, 2024... and assembling the tail.
12July 7, 2024The seats gor open backrests...
13July 7, 2024wich I closed for the first 2 rows.
14July 7, 2024I don't like tail-sitters -> some lead inside of the pedestal
15July 7, 2024The step in the roof section is closed with sheet, the gaps filled with putty.
16July 7, 2024OOB the rotorshaft would go down inside the cabin, so I had to modify it a bit. The rotor control also looks quite monolithic.
17July 7, 2024So I removed some unnessasary material and replaced the shaft with a 0.8 mm hypodermic needle
18July 7, 2024While I was at it I started assembling the main Rotor.
19July 7, 2024Dry-fitting showed some problems between the tail and the cowling (the angel between the cowling rear face and the tail-boom front part is about 8°). I hope matching the build groups is easier than the seperat parts.
20July 8, 2024The passanger seats are installed, a hot behind the last sets fabricated and fitted to the fuselage sides.
21July 8, 2024The forward hole in the sealing is closed, a air chanel for the ventilation installed. I could just see a little bit of this chanel on one photo, so most of it is based on my imagination.
22July 8, 2024The cowling ond rear sections are joint. The angle of the kontact surfaces seams to be the correct one, so I had to modify the fixing points.
23July 8, 2024for a 1988 tool the fit is quite good. With the modifications I made the model snaps together quite nice and one can even lift it on the tail.
24July 8, 2024One can see at least a bit of the improofments through the windows.
25July 9, 2024I made blinds out of aluminum foil and installed them.
26July 12, 2024Interiour nearly finisched.
27July 12, 2024I did some improvements on the exteriour.
28July 12, 2024Some Styrenstrips & sheet and some aluminium tape.
29July 12, 2024I hope this will come out much better with paint. If not I can use putty and try something else to ad the forgotten openings & grills.
30July 19, 2024I started painting the interiour.
31August 4, 2024Some details are painted,
32August 4, 2024decals on the panel and the buckles of the seatbelts scratched from alutape. With the litle bit one can see when the fuselage is closed that should be enough.
33August 4, 2024Most of the wIndows are installed. There are no frames, so ist very difficult to glue them in without getting the glue on the window. So when possible I masked them from both sides, if not just from the outside.
34August 11, 2024The Inside of the widows are cleaned, the fuselage closed. Next step: Filler & sanding.
35August 24, 2024A lot of sanding and filling. Most dissapointing is the fact, that the glareshild is part of the fuselage halves, so sanding inside the allmost closed fuselage in nessecary. Cross your fingers, I can blow our all the dust.
36September 8, 2024Sanding on most of the fuselage seams succsessful, ...
37September 8, 2024but not on the glareschield. Here I used a 3rd layer of putty. Priming the fuselage and checking the seams will have to wait till the front window is installed after the glareshield is done..
38September 16, 2024The bid hole in the glareshield is finaly closed and painted. now I can install the windshield. I also worked on the new installation of the rotorshaft, as the original ends inside the cabin.
39September 16, 2024There is a shorter shaft made from steel tube, extra mounting points at the top and bottom of the engine compartment and the schaft will get fixed at the top.
40October 3, 2024The main rotor is painted dark gray.
41October 3, 2024At sunday I installed the engine compartment, the rotorshaft and the tail, so today i could prime everything. As you can see ther are still imperfections, so back to puttying and sanding.
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5 October 2024, 04:17 -
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Build proces for my 1/72 Eurocopter BK-117 in Stunning Space Design colours designed by Luigi Colani. The Kit is based on a 1988 Matchbok kit and there is no detail set or a kit from better moulds that I know of. So I'll try to improve this oldie a little bit.
I'm going to present the helicopter on a helipad in a city with 2 pilots waiting for some VIPs.
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