Mountain Rescue Alouette III

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February 17, 2023
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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February 17, 2023
Parts for the engine.
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February 17, 2023
The Whirly Bird skis assembled and soldered.
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February 17, 2023
That Whirly Bird piece looked way too coarse.
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February 17, 2023
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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February 17, 2023
Further details of the rotor head. Even at Brenguns PE set important pieces are missing. My spare box provided them.
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February 17, 2023
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February 19, 2023
Lets put some color on. Quite happy with the blue-grey I was looking for.
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February 19, 2023
Interior is black all over
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February 19, 2023
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February 19, 2023
The first steps to color the engine.
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February 21, 2023
I found the kits main gear too coarse and its detail too soft. So I decided to build it anew.
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March 7, 2023
Not sure yet whether to use the sitting...
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March 7, 2023
... or the kneeing guy.
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March 7, 2023
So let's paint them both. I used brown instead of black as base.
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June 9, 2023
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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June 9, 2023
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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July 9, 2023
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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July 9, 2023
Filling for the box
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July 9, 2023
Next step will be to cut the crevasse into it.

Comments

20 17 February 2023, 17:38

Alex K
Taking a seat...

17 February 2023, 19:56

Живко Джаков
Me too!

17 February 2023, 21:01

Marius
Wonderful subject and very good start!
This won't be an easy one.

17 February 2023, 21:08

David Funke
Watching!

17 February 2023, 21:26

Michael Kohl
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

Andy Ball
Great start! Intricate

17 February 2023, 23:07

bughunter
Another nice project started 👍

17 February 2023, 23:09

Finn
Will follow

18 February 2023, 07:34

Tom B.
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

Łukasz Gliński
Joining the party 👍

18 February 2023, 16:06

Ronan
Following 😉

19 February 2023, 09:08

Harry Eder
Great start! 🙂

19 February 2023, 10:14

Martin Grafeneder
Alouette, it's always good, I'll watch

19 February 2023, 10:48

Jan Peters
I love the alouette, watching too

19 February 2023, 10:49

Gary Kitchen
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

Michael Kohl
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

Rando Dude
Following along as well.

12 April 2023, 17:52

Łukasz Gliński
Grand progress. And always good to learn another German 150-letter-vocabulary 😋

12 April 2023, 18:25

Живко Джаков
It can always be straight outside hanging on the rope. [img1]

12 April 2023, 18:44

Michael Kohl
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

Michael Kohl
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