Moving the jet ranger project

[patrickegan]

my subject

[patrickegan]

What we have so far.

[WPXP]

Cool!!! That will be a sweet bird when it's finished. How big?

[patrickegan]

It fit's on Hummingbird!

[patrickegan]

Dry fit- Getting the guts in there ain’t easy. On the bright side I think I might be able to pull off a Cesarean section! Could come in handy as a second career as I’m spending a few dollars on helo’s! Need a few more parts and a little more detail and we’ll call it done!

[shim]

Where did you get the scale body from?

-shim

[patrickegan]

Shim- from www.jmdmodels.com. Are you in Malaysia?

[shim]

patrickegan,
I am close to Malaysia. I am in Brunei Darussalam. Look for Borneo Island in the map and you will find Brunei.

-shim

[patrickegan]

A subject of the Sultan?

[shim]

you seem familar with the region. Been around here??

[patrickegan]

In the 90's I built a darkroom for a photographer who made several trips to Sarawak, Sabah, Brunei and Kalimantan. His objective mainly was to document those who live in the longhouse’s. I would muse with the images of the countryside! To me they invoked a visual representation strait of Conrad’s heart of darkness. The Joss sticks in color must be very impressive! Do they have them in Malaysia?

[shim]

Culture in Malaysia pretty much the same as in Brunei. We are multi racial here, malays, chinese, indians etc...

-shim

[Trigger_Fish]

patrick-

How well does that JMD body fit the HB? Is it easily removable to get at the guts when you need too? I'm considering one of their shells...

It loos like you had to reverse the rotor rotation for the shell? I see your TR is on the "wrong" side..

P.S. Your looks great.

[patrickegan]

Trigger-
No, I put the tail rotor on that side because it’s nice and flat. Mounted the motor strait to the plastic, so no need for the tail boom. As far as getting the body off, it can be done but I don’t think you would want to do it all the time!

[Trigger_Fish]

patrick-

The left side rotor mount also matches your subject heli :)

Is there an access hatch or anything on that JMD shell? Something to make maintenance easier?

I had one of the Century "scale" bodies (the Jet Ranger) and it completely sucked. Brittle as little old ladies hips and like no thought was given to actually having to get inside the heli and do something with it. It comes glued together around the frame when you buy it with a chassis. Umm duh, I'd like to put a radio in there at some point :rolleyes:

Total waste of the $30 extra I payed for the thing.

[patrickegan]

Trigger- The bottom is cut out but you can’t get at a lot. I figure I have a hanger queen! I have had to put the project on hold as I’m overloaded with work. On another note, the design of the Ikarus fuse looks good. Cracks in half to get at the guts. After you put in all the work that is necessary to finish the fuse you’ll probably only do some (as Hoverup puts it) 2d action!

[Trigger_Fish]

Can the picolo bodies be adapted to HB's do you know?

[patrickegan]

Check out helihobby.com

[Trigger_Fish]

Cool! The Huey is awesome - and the whole snoz comes right off. Not cheap, but I ordered one :) Had to go to Hobby Lobby tho, Heli Hobby was out of stock. Hobby Lobby was $20 more too :(

[patrickegan]

Dude- I'm all over that Huey with the little surfboards, Col Kilgore death from above Wagnerian coocooland shindig!!! Or, I could go Hughes oh-6a Loach grenade launching death machine!

[Trigger_Fish]

Smells like... victory!

[patrickegan]

Dude- I wanna see some pic's when you get that thing started!

[Trigger_Fish]

Done and done. You've inspired me with your last post too btw: surfboards will definately be on that sucker :)

I like the Hughes too by the way. You've got two choices there tho. The JMD lexan Hughes 500 detailing/molding looks better than the foam Ikarus one, but the Ikarus one has the liftable snout...

I may try a JMD Hughes 500 body at some point put I'll have to lay off the Ikarus one for now - they're too much dough to buy 2. They should lose the extra motor and crap that is Picolo exclusive and just sell the shells.

[Trigger_Fish]

Guess what I got today patrick :D

Sucker is HUGE, it's going to be cool. 1/22 scale. Also the foam molding is better than I thought. Lots of panel lines and even rivets. It will be lots of work tho :(

The kit comes with a knife, glue, a new picolo motor, wire... all kinds of crap I don't need. They should lose the extras and sell them for $50, they'd fly off the shelves for that.

I bought an all new HB 2 to build this one around - can't have my only chopper go offline while working on this one. They want you to do some non-reversible things to the chassis.

The only question is do I keep blowing off the Dare B-25 I'm doing to start on this or do I be a good boy and clear the building board first...

[patrickegan]

huey-

How long is it?

[dankers]

Did anything ever come of these projects?

The Picture of the first heli is taken in Melbourne on the Heli pad right outside the casino, cool.

[Madguns]

That's a neat Jetranger!
Micro Scale rules! :D

[OzzieFlyer]

Yep...I work 5 minutes from that helipad and see them passing my window all the time.

Looks good