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NASA Ingenuity - Mars helicopter View album, image #36
1:72
Framed and ready for my wall
Scratchbuilt
56 8 January, 19:58
Robert Podkoński
That's a great idea!
 8 January, 20:24
Spanjaard
interesting, I am in
 8 January, 22:23
Skyhiker Auteur
Ok that all for tonight. Pretty good for one day.
 9 January, 02:59
bughunter
Sweet 👍
Reminds me of the real one, still trying to collect data. In the loneliness there, far out ...
 9 January, 08:32
Thomas Espe
Nice! 👀
 9 January, 11:51
Jennifer Franklin
Oooohhhh... I am following. What are the rotor hubs for? Aren't they used in wind turbines?
 11 January, 00:26
Skyhiker Auteur
Welcome Jennifer, the propeller blades will be connected to the hubs once I get them finished.
1  11 January, 12:00
Живко Джаков
Incredible idea! This device is a first in many things. Starting with the fact that it is the first time something like this has flown to another planet. Who knows, this is a planet inhabited only by robots. The last interesting thing is that his disaster is the first one investigated on another planet. I look forward to seeing the finished model..
2  11 January, 13:11
gorby
Looks interesting. 🙂
 11 January, 15:35
Skyhiker Auteur
Живко Джаков these are exactly the reasons why I decided to try and make this model.
2  11 January, 16:31
Skyhiker Auteur
Worked on the rotor blades today. Still more to do on them.
 18 January, 00:49
Skyhiker Auteur
Working further on the contra-rotating propellers today.
1  18 January, 16:35
Skyhiker Auteur
I'm not sure I can fit all the parts to make it accurate. It's very small.
 18 January, 23:05
Jennifer Franklin
It's so small
 19 January, 01:12
Skyhiker Auteur
Yes, at 1:72 scale it is less than a centimeter tall and the propellers are about 2cm wide in total.
 19 January, 02:19
Skyhiker Auteur
I had a real scare when I was priming the model today and it flew out of my tweezers. I couldn't find it anywhere and it took a half an hour before I saw it stuck to my sock! Lucky nothing got broken.
2  19 January, 18:37
bughunter
Nice progress on this little heli 👍 Do you find pictures for the coloring?
 19 January, 18:49
Skyhiker Auteur
Hi bughunter, yes there seems to be enough photos around but the drone went through several redesigns before it went to Mars. For example the foil was gold for a while. The rotor blades' nubs were both pointing up at one point. Little things like the feet changed and the size of the battery and solar panel. I always have to go back and check the Mars mission photos to make sure what I am doing is correct.
2  20 January, 00:06
Skyhiker Auteur
I'm very close to having this done. Let's hope no catastrophes happen before it is mounted and framed.
1  9 February, 02:32
Живко Джаков
It won't be a precedent. As we've already commented, NASA crashed, so this won't be the end of the project 🙂. And one question. Where did you get your Martian soil from? Isn't the source of the survini too far away?
 9 February, 10:07
Skyhiker Auteur
Ok. After a few last minute repairs, of course I knocked off two propellers and the antenna while mounting it to the diorama, I 've finished this.
1  9 February, 12:43
gorby
Very nice work! The last photo made me laugh.
 9 February, 12:48
Skyhiker Auteur
I'd like to have better photos but it's so small the camera on my phone can't do it justice.
1  9 February, 12:51
Skyhiker Auteur
Thanks gorby. This is by far the smallest model I have ever made. I'm pretty happy with the results considering it's a scratch build and I don't have any special tools to do micro surgery.
 9 February, 13:07
Robert Podkoński
Chapeau bas! Fantastic work.
 9 February, 13:08
Martin Weinpold
Nice!
 9 February, 13:26
Rui S
I agree 👍
 9 February, 14:13
Alex K
I silently followed this right from the start - and now it's time for respects and congrats - for a number of reasons: for the choice of the inspirational topic, for sticking to 1:72 scale, for the implementation and the final result in scratch... Two thumbs up! 👍 👍
1  9 February, 14:16
Skyhiker Auteur
Thanks guys. It's nice to have another one of a kind in my collection.
 9 February, 15:27
Guy Rump
Very nice! 👍
 9 February, 15:33
Spanjaard
wow congratulations, fantastic result
 9 February, 16:34
Jennifer Franklin
Love the martian in orange. Beautiful result and astounding given the scale.
1  12 February, 15:21
Łukasz Gliński
Wow, what a tiny job. I might have lose it while trying the assembly 😄
 13 February, 14:28
Michael Kohl
Alex K nailed it.
 13 February, 21:21
Skyhiker Auteur
Thanks guys. Now I am considering doing an even smaller model: I might make the Sputnik satellite in 1:72 scale, it would only be 8 mm!
2  13 February, 22:42
Skyhiker Auteur
After doing further research I realized that the Sputnik satellite in 1:72 scale, would be bigger than this. Only the ball is 8 mm but with the antennas it would be bigger.
1  14 February, 00:57
Skyhiker Auteur
I framed this up today
 18 February, 21:53
Spanjaard
cool frame!
 18 February, 21:54
Skyhiker Auteur
It took me several hours to make the frame into a box frame. I think it worked out, black seemed appropriate.
1  18 February, 21:58
bughunter
The frame is the cherry on the cake of this nice little scratch project 👍
1  18 February, 22:00
Skyhiker Auteur
Thanks bughunter
 18 February, 22:14
Maciej Bellos
Fantastic!
 18 February, 22:29
Patrick Hagelstein
I really like the way you framed it! 🖼️
 18 February, 22:43
Ben M
That looks great!
 18 February, 23:45
Jennifer Franklin
I love the frame. Did you start with a regular frame, or is that something special?
 19 February, 01:44
Живко Джаков
Great model. It was a pleasure to follow its creation.
 19 February, 09:19
Skyhiker Auteur
Jennifer, I bought a cheap metal frame for 3 euros. To extend the depth of the frame I made an outer box out of 3mm MDF sheeting that someone was throwing away. Then I made an inner box out of MDF to hold the model. The middle between the two boxes is filled with cardboard for support. After I hot glued this all together I printed images of the Mars surface which I designed on the computer and the label so people will know what they are looking at. The black matt I cut out of paper. The front of the frame slides up if I ever need access to the model, which I may, because I will probably fill the gaps at the base of the model with sand since those black lines on the sides annoy me.
2  19 February, 10:28
Finn
Awesome, a gem!
 20 February, 20:01
Jennifer Franklin
It looks better than store-bought Skyhiker. It came out perfectly.
 22 February, 13:04
Finn
What scale would you say it is?
 22 February, 21:24
Живко Джаков
1:72
1  22 February, 21:26
Dean Cikins
Just saw this. Very cool idea!
 23 February, 16:10
Skyhiker Auteur
Thanks Dean
 23 February, 21:33

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