RAAF Fairey Rotodyne

[mgp]

Here's my latest finished bit of what-iffery:  a  Fairey Rotodyne

Only took me about three years to build the damn thing! Definitely NOT the best model I've ever built.

Cheers

[nev]

You've done a beauty job on a kit that takes a lot of work    

[NARSES2]

I'm impressed - I keep getting mine out of the stash, looking at it, and putting it back again !

Chris

[Patrick H]

Definitely NOT the best model I've ever built.

In that cas, I'd hate to be in the same model competion as you.  
Wonderfull piece of work.



Patrick

[madmike]

Nice model!!

Having built two of the Airfix Rotodynes, I understand the trials you have endured getting to completion!

I am planning a RAAF Rotodyne as my third build, adding wing tip fuel tanks and other embellishments

Well done, once again!

cheers

Mike

[Nick]

Wow, looks great. My Rotodyne got half built and went back in the hangar for finishing at a later date. It's a bit of a pig to build....

Nick B)  

[Captain Canada]

Beauty ! Great job on that one...love the colour, and the cockpit shot.....looks like some little dudes could jump in and fly away right now !

Always liked that bird...too bad it didn't go into production......

And the more I think of RAAF jobs, I think of how nice that kit would be grafted to a Hobbycrap Caribou fuselage !

 

[Leigh]

I'm impressed - I keep getting mine out of the stash, looking at it, and putting it back again !

Chris

Ditto on that thought, after seeing that beauty it might stay there a bit longer, great job I love it

[lancer]

Awsome work!! My rotodyne is still in the stash awaiting building. Got to finalise a scheme and a role for it yet though.

[John Howling Mouse]

Not the greatest kit, eh?

Any, uh, tips/advice for a crazy Canuck who plans on turning one into a more regular, mid-sized cargo plane (no rotor)

 

[Leigh]

Why on God's green earth would you build a Rotodyne without a rotor?
I think someone either needs their meds or needs to share them.

[mgp]

Thank you all for your compliments gentlemen.

I am planning a RAAF Rotodyne as my third build, adding wing tip fuel tanks and other embellishments

My original plan was to do it as a Gunship version just like the ACH-47 Chinook gunship - nose mounted grenade launcher, rotary cannon mounted on the open ramp, side mounted 50 cals and M-60s as well as rocket pods but all that enthusiasm evaporated in a cloud of Tamiya putty dust. Maybe another day when the horror fades.

Any, uh, tips/advice for a crazy Canuck who plans on turning one into a more regular, mid-sized cargo plane (no rotor)

NOOOOOO....don't do it! Crazy!! Now that I believe    By the time you rebuild the top of the fuselage and stretch the wingspan you'd have been better off buying a Caribou and turning that into a Rotoplane.

[upnorth]

Very nice!

The only things I might have done differently would be to put a radome on the nose somewhere and door guns on either side just aft of the cockpit.

Though, if you say it was a pain to get together, then I can't fault you for being happy just to have it together.

I love the Rotodyne, it had such potential.

[Joe C-P]

It seems several of us have started projects with that beast of a kit. The plane itself was brilliant , just the model gives fits.  

I like what you did with the tail, turning those annoying clamshell doors into a simpler ramp; I might steal your idea.  

I'm building mine as a Royal Navy COD bird for the Invincibles. I'm blocking off most of the windows, adding a deck, walls, and ceiling, and am looking for some military-type seats to go along the sides, like other transports. I've a bunch of HO scale cargo and a forklift to make a diorama.

If I'm ever foolish enough to buy another, it'll be built as an armed USMC assault transport.

[Leigh]

Am I feeling a group build coming on? It's seems that we all have one in the stash. ^_^