1/72 Italeri Helicopter AB 204 B

Gallery Article by Jose Luis Martinez on July 16 2003

 

This is my latest work, this helicopter has a little electric motor to spin the main rotor blades, also it has two little lights inside the cockpit, it was very difficult because this kit is very small, actually it is the smallest kit that I have made I had some problems to put the batteries and the switch because there isn’t space inside the model, but after many nights trying, at last I could do it.  

I begun to arm the model this way 

The first thing to do is install electric motor, lights, batteries compartment  and the switch all together in the back side of passenger seat, I use little cell batteries to power it.

 

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The next step was put all the main parts together to check out how all components work.   

After that I followed the instructions in the box, the model was painted with Tamiya paints,

And now it is finished, check it out. 

I did enjoy a lot doing this model, the only thing that I don't like was that I was not able to spin the tail rotor blades, in my next project a scratch build helicopter Agusta 109A that was given me by a friend, I will try to install a little motor in the tail rotor blades and to install flashing lights.

Jose Luis Martinez

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Photos and text © by Jose Luis Martinez