I finally bought a helicopter (unless you count PicooZ's and flying "bugs"). Say hello to E-Sky's Co-Comanche.

All it takes is removal of the silly stickers ("ARMY HELI" LOL), addition of some more accurate stickers (or decals), a little bit of dullcoat and this little helicopter looks absolutely scale (er... except for that second level of blades... ).

I made a sticker set (using clear sticker stock from the office supply store) on PowerPoint, doing it trial and error to match photos I have of the Comanche doing test flights in South Florida. All I did then was liquid mask the windows, slap on the stickers, and spray the two fuselage halves with a light spray of Testors dullcoat. That did the trick to make the shiny toy a scale flying model. I just wish they had designed the fuselage with the navigation turret facing foward (they made the same mistake several model/toy companies made by modeling the sensor outer-mold-line mockup that was just a weighted fiberglass shell). It looks much better with the moving turrets on the front.

It is a great flying little heli. Right out of the box I could hover in my cramped living room five feet off the carpet and hands off (after proper trimming).

Rick

Wow! Looks great, Rick! My wife must let me get one now!

Look nice. My flying buddy wants a small low cost heli, and I've showed him that one, and a few others. Good to hear that you like how it flys. Maybe I'll talk him into getting it. I like the looks too.

The Co-Comanche is still flying strong - all I need for RC heli flying as building BluCore airplanes is more my interest.

I would like to find a scale looking AH-1Z (not a W, a Z)fuselage to upgrade my Co-Comanche, as I am now working on the design of the sensor system for that new heli (none appear to be available yet). I am hoping they will put out a new plastic model kit around the scale of the Co-Comanche so I can vacuum form a new fuselage.

Rick