attack helicopter

Sounds like everything is cool then. Just one more minor, itty bitty thing...roadder is spelled rotor.

There...you should be good-to-go. Can't wait to see the model progress.

:D

ok, here's the beginning of the new rotor;
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/2...drottoryp2.jpg
(i decided to go with a more cone-shaped design like the commanche)
*notice this time, the blades are wider (and thicker) hoorray!!!!
i've still got some shaping, (and something tells me that they arent long enough, after comparing my model with various helicopter printouts scattered throught my room)

*ps, that's not the final cockpit, it need shaping up

here's what happened after a few adjustments (finishing the rottor blades+elongating the tail+adding an intake duct above the cockpit)
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3...stmentsbl0.jpg
now, that's what i call sexy

I liked the tandem-rotor better =/

*picks up half-painted Ka50 model*

Try something like this, it's a 2x3 blade tandem rotor, and it doesn't need any sort of tail rotor. Plus, it looks cool - tandems look better on attack helicopters IMO.

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looks like i might be making variants in that case (rotors dont take that long to build in max the single-tandem rotor only took me like 10 minutes, but the result was a lot more asthetically pleasing over the original. also notice how i extended the tail and made part of it wider)
for now, i'm staying with the single tandem and adding landing gear. (the extra compartments are going to be storage areas.... single tandem varient=civilian usage, although the helicopter's original design was intended for military offensive strikes)
i've already got the landing gear system layed out, but i'm having problems connecting the gear to the fueselage, the supports that extend the plates to the ground are too long to sucessfully retract.
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/444...inghelley9.jpg
compartments; the keys to unleashing hell in the 21st century and beyond
i'd say the military atributes are really starting to become visible in the helicopter.
(rossum, just a word of advice, next time you post a big picture, use the shot tags
ie:

Code:

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["shot"]["/shot"]

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so the picture fits the whole page for everyone's browser)

And here was me thinking we had some sort of image resizer installed. *shrug*

By the way... a tandem rotor is a pair of rotors (on the same axis, like the Ka50, or on different ones, like the CH-47 Chinook). That there on yours is just a conventional rotor, and it's going to need a tail rotor to prevent torque spinning the helicopter like a top. Besides, yours looked better with tandems, even if they were a little thin.

damnit! shoulda gone with my first instinct; oh well
"what's the test results"
"spun like a top after liftoff"
"tell the DoD that they might have to wait on their contract"
"well... at least it was a good laugh"

lol :p

yea here's for the TLAR (that looks about right) method
picks up the welder and the carpaint (yes i said capaint)
back to work

but one question remains:
do i make both roadders spin the same way?
or couter-clockwise of each other?

Once you get that fixed, it'll be looking great. I really like where this little chopper is going :D

i have no idea which looks right:
this:
blades going in the same direction
http://img309.imageshack.us/img309/4...rectionhl2.jpg
or this:
blades going in opposite directions
http://img309.imageshack.us/img309/3...ractionvm9.jpg

Opposite.

Opposite.