Motley's Whirli-Bird

[Motley]

Thought id post this up here to hopefully get abit of motivation from others to try and finish this build. As you will remmeber last year we had the Whirli-Birds GB, i entered with my Roden PKZ-2, WW1 helicopter. Nearing the end of the build i hit the wall and lost interesting in modeling for a month or two and then this kit has sat in pieces ever since.

Upon seeing it this morning as i do every morning it finally clicked in my head that im going to finish it. Looking at it i only have two more stages in the build left to do with most of the construction done. Should be easy t finsih just need the motivation to do it tbh

This is where i got up with my build,



Most the assemblies arre together and just need putting together and little bits adding to them

And here is my build thread from the GB, http://uamf.org.uk./viewtopic.php?f=184&t=2038;

The bad thing is this may be the first of many kits of mine that end up in this section to get the push i need to finish them

Tom

[MerlinJones]

Please tell me that that's a 2p piece and not a penny!

C'mon Matey...JFDI!

Regards,
Bruce

[JamesPerrin]

Oh good I'm glad this is not forgotten as it looked quite interesting.

[jssel]

So glad your going to finish this. Very unique.

[JohnRatzenberger]

Amazing, what was going on about a dozen years after first flight. Innovative, inventive, creative, courageous - the Right Stuff.

[MerlinJones]

It's as if, having failed to get properly airborne into the sky, they decided to give it a damned good thrashing!

[Jagewa]

Go Motley!

What a frighteningly scary contraption that must have been, as they are rotary engines aren't they, all that metal spinning around phew...

Looking forward to your finishing this.

Cheers
Jim

[Motley]

Please tell me that that's a 2p piece and not a penny!

C'mon Matey...JFDI!

Regards,
Bruce

Yepp that is a 2p piece and it is a 1/72 kit so it is a small model, with tiny parts

Amazing, what was going on about a dozen years after first flight. Innovative, inventive, creative, courageous - the Right Stuff.

In my opinion they just all seemed to be missing their common sense around this time with the contraptions they seemed to come up with

It's as if, having failed to get properly airborne into the sky, they decided to give it a damned good thrashing!

Looking at the videos you can find of test flights around this time i things this would be a correct look on things, although if i was the pilot of one of these, dont think id want to thrash it to much, specially seeing bailing out would lead you into the blades

[Jagewa]

Motley, is it whirling yet?

[Motley]

Ive been really busy with work and college at the moment so havent had much time for modeling but ive got one week left then ive got two weeks off college soo should be able to get this moving again in a week or soo

[Jagewa]

Sweet looking forward to it

[splash]

As my kids used to say in the car "are we there yet?"

[MerlinJones]

I want the toilet.