Bell47 wip

Cool!  Just finished the italeri 1/48 kit a month or so ago.  Looking good. 

Looks great !  Are there any photo etch parts or is it out of the box? 

Thanks. Its oob. Except for some scratched details.

Nice work! 

Thank you.

Instrument panel done.

Excelent! I was going to start this kit this year so I'll be watching.

Looks awesome! Have you tried a brighter light for your images? They seem a tad on the dark side.  More detail will show if you use a brighter light. 

It's my crappy phone camera. I'll have to start using my tablet.

I hear ya buddy.....my last phone took horrible snappies too.  My new cell takes awesome pics. 

Is your project going to be a M*A*S*H heli?

No, it's a Marines bird.

Cockpit.

Wow! That's looking great! 

Thanks. Cockpit was a bit bare so I added a couple things.

Love the little headsets, my guess is they don't come with the kit.

Looking good!

Thanks. No, I built them, not very good, but it adds a little buisiness.

OhO!

       When I was growing up, before my turn at a uniform I used to go to " GrandMothers"( You didn't call her Granma) house. We went past a section of the Bell Aircraft factory there in Niagara Falls, N.Y. and they would be lined up in large numbers, with the markings of all three services and the Coast Guard too!

       I was so fasscinated with them I remember buying a Hawk or Aurora kit of one almost a foot or more long .The Canopy Bubble was molded in one piece and they didn't include door decals! Plus you could build the Medi-Vac or the one equipped with floats! The Canopy Bubble was so thick everything inside was all distorted!

This ones about a foot long or so.

Well;

     That's cool. I do like what you're doing to her.

Rotorhead complete. I added a bit of bow to the blades.

Hey ! 

       What's up? did you stop the build? You got to the Rotary Wing then stopped .Is everything ok?

Everything  is fine, just busy. Summer is a busy yardwork  time for me so I don't get a lot of bench time.