CH-47D Chinook

[Ralph_S]

I have been building quite a lot in recent months, but it's been a while since I last posted a MOC here. I know some of you have already seen it on Flickr, but thought I'd post it here as well.

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It's a 1/36 scale model of a US Army CH-47D Chinook. In the last months I've been building quite a few helicopters, and this was a well-known one that I didn't have yet. As with most of my recent MOCs, I've gone for a completely purist solution for the windows (even though that means they're a bit opaque). The twin rotors are interconnected with a shaft running along the length of the fuselage.

Cheers,

Ralph

[Wouwie]

It still amazes me....I love it even more then in the beginning!

Good job Ralph!

[Lasse D]

I don't know how you feel about the "purist"-type of windows, but I prefer them to the alternatives of non-LEGO parts or empty frames.

Googling for the real version gave me (among others) this:

and your model is spot on. Great job Ralph. I don't see most of your announcements because I don't use Flickr, so I'm glad that you posted this great creation here.

Will you do the same with the fire engine? It would be nice to see how the Power Functions in it work.

[Joey Lock]

There has been like 5 of these go over our University, I guess there going to the TA Centre.

[Guss]

That's a really nice moc you made! really accurate! I love it^^

[Thee Pirate]

you've done a great job on that.

Have you done an MH-53?

[Ralph_S]

Thanks guys. I still upload my MOCs to brickshelf, but they tend to get lost in the clutter. For helicopters the brick-built windows seem to work fairly well. They're not quite as transparent as I'd like, I'm not sure whether I would have been able to make the cockpit look better with flexible plastic as I used to do on many of my models. Simply building a frame without windows would look wrong somehow.

I built an MH-53 a few months ago:

Cheers,

Ralph