Straightening bananas

[loupgarou]

FIRST: the compulsory date shot (I hope the newspaper date is readable)


Having, i don't know why, 2 H-21 from Hobbycraft, I decided to do something useful with one of them, giving it a more logical and rational shape.
I have to say that the parts fit is NOT the best, and, as always, I made an error. Should have glued front and rear parts of ONE side on a flat surface. It would have been much easier checking for alignment.Anyway this is the start of the glorious Flying Cucumber.



1) YES; I know I will have to raise the rear rotor.
2) I hope my mojo will not desert me

[kerick]

I have one of these in the stash. I always imagined building some sort of space pod type of thing. I’ll be watching with great interest.

[Dizzyfugu]

I have one of these in the stash. I always imagined building some sort of space pod type of thing. I’ll be watching with great interest.

I've seen two of these used in a U-shaped spaceship some time ago. The donors were hard to recognize, looked rather outlandish!

[loupgarou]

My build is slowly advancing, I prefer to leave ample time for glue or putty to dry before touching anything.
Here is the situation, rotors just posed on top:



Hmmm. One of the f°*# blades is distorted. Will have to do something about it.

[Rick Lowe]

...Or not; if you bend them all, you can replicate rotor droop.

Though whether the real ones did, in fact, droop, I don't know.

[PR19_Kit]

Though whether the real ones did, in fact, droop, I don't know.

They did, a bit anyway.

[loupgarou]

Are you all trying to give me a guilt feeling?
I havn't moved this build for a long time.
Yes, I know that blades drop, problem is that one of mine has a somewhat S shaped drop. 
Anyway, I HAD done a little work, then forgot to post it.
The pilot seats are a bucket type, like ones for a pilot wearing a seat parachute. So I added just a little detail and had to create some cushions for the seats. All the photos I found on internet where I could see the seats (US, french, german, japanese) had red cushions. 

 

p.s. I was thinking that everywhere the H-21 was called Flying Banana, maybe instead was only in France: "mais il est plus connu sous le nom de « banane volante » (« Flying banana »),"
So this one will be a "Courgette volante" ("Flying Zucchini") or a " Cornichon volant" ("Flying Gherkin")

[Rick Lowe]

Are you all trying to give me a guilt feeling?

p.s. I was thinking that everywhere the H-21 was called Flying Banana, maybe instead was only in France: "mais il est plus connu sous le nom de « banane volante » (« Flying banana »),"
So this one will be a "Courgette volante" ("Flying Zucchini") or a " Cornichon volant" ("Flying Gherkin")

No, just suggesting a way to make the droop work for you. 

And yeah, "Flying Zucchini" works for me. 

[NARSES2]

Are you all trying to give me a guilt feeling?

Yes 

No seriously, we are just interested 

[loupgarou]

Well,  you had me started again on this project, that had been put aside. I am glueing parts and hope to paint it today (if 5 years old Maskol still works) 

[zenrat]

Are you all trying to give me a guilt feeling?

p.s. I was thinking that everywhere the H-21 was called Flying Banana, maybe instead was only in France: "mais il est plus connu sous le nom de « banane volante » (« Flying banana »),"
So this one will be a "Courgette volante" ("Flying Zucchini") or a " Cornichon volant" ("Flying Gherkin")

No, just suggesting a way to make the droop work for you. 

And yeah, "Flying Zucchini" works for me. 

AKA flying Courgette in the UK.   

[loupgarou]

Do britons use a french word?? 

[zenrat]

Do britons use a french word?? 

Yes. Shocking isn't it!   

[NARSES2]

Do britons use a french word?? 

We use lots of French words  English in the main is a concoction made up from lots of other languages, ranging from French to Hindi. I did see/read somewhere a long time ago the total number of words in the English language that were English and not imported and it is a very low percentage.

[loupgarou]

According to google translate, it's called zucchini and that's italian. So, whatever word, it looks like there weren't courgettes/zucchini in UK before historical times.