OH - 23 Raven in 1/48th

She is really looking awesome. I wish you would post a little higher resolution images though so I can admire your detail even more. Maybe 1024x768

Charlie

You are doing a great job on this build and it's bringing back some memories for me. Really wish someone would pop a kit of it.

Have you thouhgt about trying to find the Italeri OH-13 kit as a basis for your engine. If memory serves me, I think they used the same engine at the end of thier careers.

Please note that in Korea, we had G models painted in the subdued scheme like Huey's had

Ray:

Got 'em.

Thanks man...awesome stuff.

That will keep me busy for awhile.

Grandadjohn:

Thanks!  Appreciate all the feedback from you and the guys.

I have but one memory...but it is a good one.

My father used to buzz our farmhouse in their base OH-23..(my dad commanded some Nike Ajax/Hercules batteries and that bird was their ride).

BTW: I did happen to pick up an OH-13 Sioux in 1/48th when they were available, and I have been giving the engine a going over...there are some strong similarities...

Tell me about that subdued scheme......I'm interested.

I was planning on doing my dad's bird in the Army OD and yellow with orange...but the one picture from the old base newsletter was in B&W...

Charlie:

I'll try and jack the resolution up a bit...I have a primitive digital camera that doesn't do close ups very well...and I'm so used to having to crop and resize pictures to keep from getting my uploads bounced off some the other hobby forums that I frequent - it didn't occur to me to leave the pictures "as is"...

I'll see what kind of resolution I get out of the box....

Not much to say about the subdued paint job, they were painted in the same flat OD color has the Huey's used, The tail boom was marked in "UNITED STATES ARMY" and the tail number and stenciling were black. Believe the tail number was on the tail boom, but I can't remember for sure. No star and bar national insigina was carried. Wish I could find a photo for you, got a box full of slides I need to go through

Does your camera have a "macro" setting, if it does try using it

Let's see what we get with this....

Sorry...no joy.

I'm no expert...but looking into this...I suspect it is happening at photobucket where I upload my pictures to make available here.

I took the source picture which has properties showing 1501 x 700 and 3152100 bytes....leaving "as is" with no resizing, just cropping the margins a bit...I logged into photobucket and browsed my pictures..then uploaded this one again, un-resized..

After uploading ...it shows as 639 x 298 , 52251 bytes

Glad you got the manuals. I knew they'd come in handy some day. 

 In Photobucket are you using the 1 MB picture setting when you upload you photos?  In any event, she looks awesome!

    Ray

Grandad, sorry these aren't better quality but i think this is the subdued scheme you mentioned.

   Ray

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OK. I went back to photobucket and did a little messing around.

I'm new to this so I don't quite know what I'm doing over there.

I did find upload options and reset them...

This new setting might do it for me.

Let's see...

Think that did it...I believe a right click on the enlarged picture here shows properties with a higher rez now......so maybe you will enjoy seeing all the flaws...

My pleasure,Grandad.  I'm headed to Rucker on Friday so I'll try to get some detail shots of the engine for our master builder.  Wish me luck.

    Ray

What I do for photobucket is take the pictures in hih-res, 2130 x 1700 and then I use Irfanview which is a free download to reduce the pictures to 1200x 900 I think at 72dpi. That gives you a good high-res picture that reduces down good with a file size about 100k. Then I upload them into photobucket and they reduce them down to 1024 by 760 I believe. The problem I think you are having is you dpi is too high before you upload to photobucket. You really do not need much more than 72 dpi for computer screens.

BTW, I'm loven your model more and more!

Charlie

Well, I guess it is time for "photobucket for Dummies" here...

Trouble is I don't do much with computers and photos... spend more of my free time sanding plastic.

Which is what I should be doing right now....yuk yuk.

No problem. Download this program and it is real easy to use. Just continue to take hi-res pictures and open them with irfanview and on the edit menu resize the image to 1024 at 72 dpi and when you save it reduce the file size scale you will see to 80% and save your picture as a new file. That is all there is too it and you'll love the features in irfanview.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Charlie

Not an OH-23, but here is a walkaround of the civilian version UH-12C from the Hiller Museum (they have an OH-23 as well, but it is hanging under the ceiling and is nearly impossible to photograph):

http://svsm.org/gallery/hiller360

Vladimir 

Vladimir:

Thank you - you take good pictures.

With all the help and insight I've been getting in the last 48 hours, I may have to start over.

Check out those cable runs on the tail boom..didn't know they were there.

And in picture P1400941.jpg ...what is that gizmo portruding into the cockpit from the canopy roof?

PBRStreet gang wrote:

And in picture P1400941.jpg ...what is that gizmo portruding into the cockpit from the canopy roof?

Defroster vent

Wow! This is a truly impressive project.  Looking forward to more WIP pics.

Impressive ... most impressive!
(What else is there to say!)

Avus wrote:

Impressive ... most impressive! (What else is there to say!)

How about..."get back to work on this!!...."

 Sorry guys, I took a drive to Maryland last weekend to see a new world record set for flying models...although this thing stretched the term "model" considerably.

A two year build.....we watched a 1,600 lb. 1/10th scale Saturn V launched in honor of an event 40 years ago this July...1969.

Awesome..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj4lj6YSwzg

After dealing with some computer problems and doing some exhaustive research and coming to some conclusions about what engine to reproduce  (Franklin or Lycoming) I'm about to resurect this build thread.

Needed a break anyway...didn't think it would be this long...

I just set up some resin casting components to pull several small engine parts for the Lycoming six cylinder....(based on some old Army base newsletters i retrieved .... it appears the bird my dad flew around in was a G model with a Lycoming).

Cant wait to see it done.  I have a 1/72 one from Special Hobby in the works.  My decal sheet got damp, and I hope it will still be good.  Couldnt you use the engine from Italeri's 1/48 H-13 Souix ?

Yes, that was a good suggestion...and I have looked over the engine from a 1/48th OH-13 Sioux and while it is a good starting point,  there are several major differences and not quite enough detail for me...so I'm combining that with a number of other scavenged parts and many added details to pull this off.

I've got the Special Hobby OH-23  in 1/72nd as well ...cute little thing,  but the overall shape of the clear bubble canopy is not quite right, and looks to be a real bear to assemble the two halves...but it is a pretty neat little kit.

Well, after enlarging some reference photos and doing some measurements,....I scavenged various tiny parts  and components that looked like they could be modified and cast in resin.

Then after making some cast parts,  I cut up and assembled them into an engine block and added six cylinder heads with cylinders.

 The first picture shows a highly modified engine block cast from an old 1/48th Cessna kit, cut up, recast and reassembled, with a single exhaust pipe and air cooled fan ring for size comparison to reference photos. This thing is tiny in 1/48th....

The second shows a "tack-glued" engine assembly to take some more measurements and test fit on the engine deck...(yeah, the cylinders don't exactly line up yet on each side...I'll need to fix that).

Looking good, and actually, you dont want them to line up perfectly, they would be offset a little bit.  Look at any multi bank engine, be it a v-6, v-8, flat 6 or flat4, and you will see one bank is a little off from the other.

Looking Good PBR

Did some work on this recently.

I'll have to try that again....