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Gallery of finished PLZ W-3A model from MSModel. Sorry for delay

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Heli almost done

Tail rotor glued to beam

Handles, stairs and mounting points

Front left door I made in open position, and right as closed. Cargo doors will stay movable.

Tail rotor

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Today - rotors assembling

Main rotor:

Cap

Together

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Today some details elements:

Nose segments

Rescue lift

Tail horizontal stabilizer + tail support

Front doors - I use ready PCV windows elements from Answer

For next - both rotors

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This time: tail beam

Beam elements

Tail gearbox elements

And assembled beam

Horizontal fin, and tail rotor elements I will glue later, after montage beam to hull

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Cargo doors

Door sliders - I remake bottom slide from stripe to L profile, so cargodoors can be slide.

- fail - pattern on left cargo doors don't fit to pattern on hull (door bottom right corner)

Small air holes - I resigned on doubling the thickness of this elements

Bootom hull reinforcements and elements

part2

- BIG FAIL - damper doesn't fit - is too long OR the wire template has the wrong bend angles

So I cut it and shortened it stiffening the whole thing with wire.

It is a good idea to cut off the top strip and glue only the roll itself. Then adjust the length of the shock absorber and wind the cut strip onto the fitted roll.

Ready landing gears

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This time landing gears

- small fail in laser elements - not cut out center disk

Wheels

Front landing gear

Rear landing gears elements

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Back, after small break

Exhaust nozzle - - small fail - inner and outer side parts has this same diameter. After fitting, the outer one is correct

And front air intakes elements

On hull

Front segments

Aero plate

Hull

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Small weekend progress - engines cover

At this moment I don't put inside exhaust nozzles. For easier montage, I cut out aero plate from part "82"

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Back segments & frame

Engines module frame. In my model it was necessary to cut out small joining tabs in part "40" - there wasn't any slots for them In roof frame of cargo bay

When the glue dried a bit, I glued the whole frame to the hull in designated slots

Elements of center air intake

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Small progress on front side:

Bottom windows

And front fuselage element

Front window external frame

Hull

At this moment I don't make nose elements, because I don't know whole model balance. When this will be necessary, I add more weight ballast hiding in nose segments.

For next backward segments and engines & main gear cover.

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Small progress:

In front, between frame elements, I add small weight ballast to prevent nose lift up

For front windows I use Answer ready canopy

Then fuselage elements - I divide cover element to smaller pieces for easier montage and for better pattern fit.

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Time for fuselage elements. For start - "cargo" bay part (windows PCV I glue to external fuselage part)

Then two bottom parts (two holes for main landing gear wires)

Then rest of the interior elements of the cockpit (color to inside)

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Continue of pilots cockpit

The interior is almost ready - remain only the front window frame and the lower part with small side windows

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For today:

Pilot seats - small bug - center element is to short - looks like missing stripe of purrple/blue part

Center instrument console - (I divided front panel to separate parts) - another small bud - front panel is in mirror, and downside panel cover part is in mirror too (upper additional button panel should be on left, not on right side).

I don't like the front panel in general. the white lines are barely visible against the light gray background

Controls and seat montage frame - from wire

Cockpit internal wall

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After assembling the cargo cabin, I glued the whole thing to hull frame. Then glue on top roof frame.

For next, some elements from pilots cabin

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Small step forward - "Cargo" bay section

Walls glued to 2 frame elements - for get shape. Then I glue windows/cargo doors frame elements

For next, seats - single seat glued to back wall, bench to side wall

Then all glued to earlier made hull frame

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This time I will present You process of building new ANSWER model from MSModel series: PZL W 3 Sokół in 1:33 scale. In build I use laser cut frame and reinforcements elements.

The frame of this model is quite similar to that of the W3/Anakonda model from GPM

For beginning - main hul frame

Then I glue to frame flor and wall parts

And then "bridge" wall that separate cargo cabin from pilots cabin

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After long break

Rotor blades

Quote from Katharina

Moin Axel,

ich hatte vor vielen Jahren meine Schreibersche F 13 mit, ich meine tatsächlich japanischen, Piloten besetzt. Bodenpersonal gabs auch dazu. Weiß der Henker wo die herkamen, wahrscheinlich irgendeine Zeitschriftenbeilage. Den richtigen Scan hab ich natürlich nichtmehr, aber vielleicht reicht das ja als Anfangspunkt für die Detektivarbeit.

Viele Grüße
Katharina

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This paper crew members looks like addon from "KARTONOWKA 2/2002" from GPM

CREW

nice photo from net - game find heli

Quote from Armando

When you built up the fuselage, are the cardboard formers/bulkheads part of the kit or do you have to transfer from plan to cardboard?

Thanks 👍🏻

Generally, mostly I use "original/default" elements from publish and wire elements maked from templete. In models I use ready canopy selled in stores (if is available).

But sometimes if I see that designed solution is poor (like sometimes weak skeleton for big wings or huge areas without any reinforcements) I add some elements to strenght whole construction. Generally I use 0,5 and 1mm cardboarst "wastes" and wooden tooth/skewer sticks/planks (sometimes I change wire element to wooden). Less often I add wire elements.

Some stores offers ready 3D printed / resin elements (like wheels, small details, bombs, rockets, gun barrels), but I didn't try them yet. Maybe in future, who knows.

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Small steps

Main rotor "head" - blade "core" from wooden skewer sticks

Tail rotor - axis from a toothpick

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Rest of the armament

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In the meantime some details

Observation "head"

Cannon

Tail rotor gearbox cover

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Landing gears

Wheels I made from painted cardboard discs

I add reinforcements from wire

Rear wheel

Main wheel

IMO rolled supports for front wheels are ~1/3 to long - they should be shorter

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Wings

Armament pods

Elements are simple, and fit OK

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Front bottom hump

Front landing gears supports

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I'm back after small break

Tail beam elements

Tail fin

And after gluing to main body, tail rotor drive shaft cover

Camouflage colors fit quite good

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Main rotor gear cover - I glue top element on 1mm cardboard. Small problems with fit back small part

Base reinforcement I glue to fuselage

Then glue whole made module

Look OK.

For next - tail beam

I start glue engines to fuselage from front

Back fit bad, so it was necessary to paint over the color on both sides

And both engine modules

Camouflage pattern fit not bad

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Engines covers

Outlet fins don't have reverse, so I glued It on color paper and roll. When they dry, I glue them to square frame

Next, outside elements (I decide to male joining tabs from black cardboard). And then put inside eleier made frame

The elements are a bit poorly fitted and need to be adjusted, especially the reduction element

Nose part

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Today cockpit segment fuselage part. First I form shape, then glue inside "glasses" in side windows. Next I put all on frame. Little bit shame, that inner side is white (only down are small pieces of colored parts).

When walls dry, I glue rest windows (top & front) cuted for single parts (easier to assembny).

Nose cover

And assembled cockpit segment