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IDEAS for better HELO (scale) soundproofing?

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  • Member since
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  • From: Seattle
IDEAS for better HELO (scale) soundproofing?
Posted by Papa-Echo-64 on Friday, January 20, 2006 9:52 PM

Lets say you want your combat bird to have the factory soundproofing but hate that tight, perfect, straight and just plain unrealistic look you see in many kits.

Has anyone ever seen an aftermarket product or found a way to re-produce that classic material in a way that can have that loose and not so tight look?

Just looking for ideas.

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  • From: Valrico, FL
Posted by HeavyArty on Friday, January 20, 2006 11:34 PM
I have used quilted paper towels as soundproofing.  Glue it up and paint it grey.  Have also heard of people taking thin foil and embossing the pattern onto it from either a kit part, or some other item that has the pattern and using that as well.

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  • From: Valrico, FL
Posted by HeavyArty on Saturday, January 21, 2006 12:46 PM

Just came up with another, while eating breakfast.  The foil from cream cheese is already embossed with the cross-hatch pattern and would work great.  Amazing what you can find to use on models when you start looking at things.

 

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Posted by Papa-Echo-64 on Saturday, January 21, 2006 2:55 PM
.......but I don't like cream cheese! Laugh [(-D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:54 PM

For 1/35 and 1/32 scale I use the cross-hatched foil seal from cans of powdered baby formula (Enfamil). Glad I stocked up when the grand-baby was still a baby!

For 1/48 and 1/72 I use aluminum foil pressed over a spare cabim wall I have kept in each scale. 

  • Member since
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  • From: Seattle
Posted by Papa-Echo-64 on Saturday, January 21, 2006 11:29 PM

Good ideas!

The floor surface I embossed on my 1/24 Huey I used those turkey pans you can get for one time baking from the super market....they are cheap!

 

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  • From: Cincinnati, Ohio
Posted by ridleusmc on Sunday, January 22, 2006 2:19 AM

There are always those birds that are devoid of soundproogfing.... or those aircraft that have one tiny piece hanging in the cabin by a couple strands of safety wire. 

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  • From: Seattle
Posted by Papa-Echo-64 on Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:33 PM
True..... my main concern for now was to build a decent 1/35 Hook without all the time it would take to build all the stringers to do it right...except for the ramp/apu and side wall areas.  Just a standard Troop transport or better yet no benches and a 1/35 Jeep tied down instead!
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  • From: Georgia
Posted by Screaminhelo on Monday, January 23, 2006 6:52 AM

I thought that I would add a suggestion for reproducing soundproofing in later model helos.  Use thin styrene cut to shape for the smooth soundproofing like that used in the -60.  You can easily bend the corners and tear up the edges to make it look slightly used.  The thickness needed doesn't really require that you take out the exsisting ceiling to maintain clearance over the floor.

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  • From: Seattle
Posted by Papa-Echo-64 on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:36 PM

ooops.

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