[MOC] Just a Generic Helicopter.

[weavil]

I bring to you the Generic Helicopter. It was made with no brand or style in mind. I started it because the hype around the release of the 42145 at the time. I also had the blades sitting around and finally felt it was time to try to make a

helicopter. I wanted to make one that was full function and as compact as possible. Which was a little challenging, but not impossible. I wanted it it be manual to allow for more room to work with, however after I was done I realized

I could fit a medium PF motor on top to power the rotor. The Work In Progress thread: 

 

 

The functions (not to short I hope):

• Collective
• Cyclic
• Pedals
• Spinning Rotors
• And Sliding Doors!

 

Swashplate with finger slicers:

Check out my good side:

Look door! *Swoosh sound effect*

Tail spinning thingy:

The big one is for finger operation or you can spin the rotor its self:

The Inputs:

The bare bits:

More pictures here!

 

The video of plane Jane working the functions:

Thank you for your time.

Edited December 1, 2022 by weavil

[DrJB]

Beautiful, great work. I like how you incorporated both collective and cyclic. If I recall, Lego has never done that. I bought 9396 a while back when it came out, hoping for such feature but it did not have it. The rotor was fairly 'massive' and complex though.

Can you show some more detail on how you did both cyclic/collective? I just bought two of Efferman's parts from shapeways but haven't got the time to put them to test (must sand them down first ... but who has the time?)

 

 

It would be nice to motorize the rotor and show the blades' pitch changes as they rotate against the vertical axis, both for a stationary and rotating observer, a bit like what Akiyuki typically does with his complex GBCs.

 

Edited December 1, 2022 by DrJB

[weavil]

4 hours ago, DrJB said:

Can you show some more detail on how you did both cyclic/collective?

I am going to start putting it into Studio today. Also I seen Efferman's parts, but I don't have the money for more parts for a while.

[DrJB]

Thank You very much ... and for the fast response as well.