Jeff's never made a Ka25 before. ***Finished***

[jssel]

Airfix took a lot of the guess work out of it. All you have to do follow the part numbers as they molded each set accordingly. So naturally I cut them all off the sprue at once.

[splash]

Airfix took a lot of the guess work out of it. All you have to do follow the part numbers as they molded each set accordingly. So naturally I cut them all off the sprue at once.

I always do the same thing

I one fitted the blades on an R/C helicopter around the wrong way it worked but not as planned and had a distinct lack of lift not to mention head vibration.

Regards Splash

[jssel]

At least you didn't have mast bumping.

OK as of this afternoon we have the drooping rotor blades fit in the counter rotating style:



Fuselage together and a fair amount of work to do there:



And a test fit of the assemblies:



So a fair amount of work ahead but please with the progress so far.

Got some ol sea chanties on the player. Here's your health to the Resolution, likewise the Eliza Swan. Here's your health to the Butler of Montrose and the Diamond ship of fame. We were the trousers of the white, the jackets of the blue and when we return to Peterhead we'll have sweethearts anew. Something like that.

[jssel]

And I think the ships were all icebound in the Artic and never made it back. The British Whaling Fleet.

[Clashcityrocker]

That is a nice looking helicopter. Nice work Jeff.

Nigel

[shangos70]

Nice work on this, i have one tucked away. Neat tip on the blade droop.

[jssel]

Off the whaling ships now and back to reality.

As called for in the instructions, weight was added to the radome as there is a lot of tail hanging out there to counter-balance.



This is where I parted company with the instruction for awhile. The instructions direct you to add the landing gear next and there are still a lot of fuselage work to do. So...........the landing gear will not go on as yet until I no longer need to manipulate the fuselage any longer.
The gear is rather spindly and it will break easily.



Overview at this point. Still rather pleased.



Notice the inward cant of the vertical stabilizers.

[splash]

Notice the inward cant of the vertical stabilizers.

That must have made it very stable in forward flight.

I often wondered why they also have the sonar body mounted so far back, on a Seaking it was directly under the Rotors and C of G ?

Regards Splash

[jssel]

Time to come to terms with that fragile looking landing gear. I have most of the larger bits on no.



As you can see, there is a lot of mold separation and flash to clean up.



Reminds me of "Hopper" from the movie "Bugs Life". "Where's our submarines?"

[splash]

Do you mean this guy?

[JamesPerrin]

I seem to remember that the undercarriage is quite robust so you should have no worries.

[Molly-new]

Coming along nicely.

[Old_Tonto]

Looking great Jeff. Keep the pics coming.

[jssel]

A little more tweeking and it is off to the paint hanger. Here is dry run with it on it's legs.

[lancfan]

Looking good Jeff.

David.