WIP: Technic Helicopter

[VBBN]

Now I'm not the greatest MOCer, but I am quite fond of what I am turning out right now:

More pics here

Please post your suggestions that I can add when working on it later on.

Thanks,

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[matanui911]

Add a drivers seat or something. Give it some interior.

[VBBN]

Add a drivers seat or something. Give it some interior.

Yes that is a given. Still not sure what to put in the back though.

[matanui911]

Another propellor thingy

[Ralph_S]

I realise that a technic MOC will look different than model team, for instance, and that the intention isn't necessarily to produce a MOC that looks like a helicopter in every detail. I also appreciate that you're not an experienced MOC builder, but in my opinion this is pretty awful.

I don't think that those orange parts are suitable for the rotor blades. They don't look like rotor blades -not helped by the colour- and are much too short compared to the size of the helicopter. I don't like the colour scheme in general and it seems to be missing a feature that almost every helicopter has: a tail rotor. It could be that you intend to add one, of course. I don't really like the shape either, although it reminds me vaguely of a UH-1 Huey. If that's the look you were going for, it lacks a turbine exhaust. In fact, I see nothing that looks even remotely like an engine.

I don't think you've thought this through. You've just started building and making it up and adding bits as you went along. That might work for a space-ship or some fantasy creation, but if you want to build something that actually makes some sense as a helicopter, I think you need to have some idea before you start. My advice would be that you take a look at some pictures of real helicopters. Go to the library and pick up a book on helicopters, use google images or look up helicopters on wikipedia. Take a good look at different models and then pick one you like and with a shape that you think you can recreate in a technic construction and try to work from that.

Cheers,

Ralph

[xenologer]

I like the orange color.

Also good to use up those hard-to-use orange slope things.

I think they would work better on the rotors, if you doubled them up (twice the length), this would also help with making them taper off at the ends. Just pull the one's off the body sides and put them up there. Lets you add some better details to the body that way too.