Bell/Boeing QTR scale model from scratch

Rafael

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Hi guys and gals!!!

This is my last adventure, a model inspired by Bell-Boeing's QTR (Quad Tilt-Rotor), the successor to V-22.

I call it StormWind, and this is what it looks like:

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It is mainly made of paper.

Enjoy!!!

Rafa




BEHIND THE SCENES.......


Found a couple (well, more than a couple) photos of the subject:

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Went to town in my unassembled AC-130
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Covered it with old newspapers clippings, all wetted in a solution of 2 parts white glue+1 part water
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This is what you get:
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With the other half....
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Primered for the first time
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Then made the engines and prop spinners from the ones in a 1/72 kit V-22. They were cast in auto body repair resin in plasticine molds
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That's what you get
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The two sets of wings come from V-22 kits in 1/72 and 1/48
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These are the resin+balsa engines
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Then it was coverd in bondo auto body putty and sanded untill my arms fell off

That was all.

FUN, Isn't it?!!

Rafa
 
Very impressive work Sir.

You have far more patience than I do.
 
Rafael, did you find scale drawings as well?
Ogival tail stuff is from 2000 Bell-Textron papers, beaver tail is later one. Oh, according to Bell-Textron plans, we should already have three AVs flying in the mid of 2007!)
 

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Hi guys!!!

Thanks for your comments.

Yes, it took a lot of patience an sanding, I was at it for all this week. Planning took twice that.

Flateric, I didn't have access to scale drawings, but I had the overall measures. At a lenght of 1063.1 inches, or 27 meters, the model should measure something in the vicinity of 37,5 centimeters, so I measured the C-130 and made the paper model to 35 centimeters, going the rest of the lenght with a balsa "beaver tail". Wingspan is very close, too.

Saludos,
Rafa
 
flateric said:
Rafael, did you find scale drawings as well?
Ogival tail stuff is from 2000 Bell-Textron papers, beaver tail is later one. Oh, according to Bell-Textron plans, we should already have three AVs flying in the mid of 2007!)

Bell has always been a very optimistic aircraft company...

QTR is still rolling at least today.
 
Well, optimistic or not, the guys at Bell-Boeing inspired this Venezuelan guy. Who would have thought that such an advanced concept could materialize over here?

Thanks - Gracias

Rafa
 
Bell Boeing are now offering two Quad Tilt-Rotor designs for JHL. The original, with C-130 sized cabin and payload, and a larger version if the Army needs it, with an A440M sized cabin and payload (Same range for both versions).
 
Any news on the QTR/V-44 program? Is it still going on?
 

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