I next scratched up some basic wipers. The arms were made from electrical wiring with the insulation removed from both ends. This left a short wire at one end to bend and poke into a hole in the windshield, and a longer exposed end to represent the tapered wiper arm. I cut two short sections of aerofoil section Plastruct to act as the wiper blades.
These were then painted in black and added to two holes drilled in the windshield with PVA glue.
I then turned to the display base. I had found an octagonal solitaire board with no pieces at an Op shop and thought it might make a nice base. I printed out the concrete base I showed you earlier and glued it to some nice solid cardboard. I wanted to have the trolley actually sitting on rails, so I got hold of some HO scale rail line and cut it to length, chamfering the ends so it matched the edges of the display base. I cut the cardboard base so it would sit either side of the rails and give a nice realistic sunken effect to the rails themselves.
The windshield was then glued in place, again using PVA glue, followed by the cockpit doors. I was intending to leave the cockpit doors open to show some of the interior detail, but it spoiled the look of the helo so much, I glued them shut! You can still see most of the detail through the clear transparencies anyway.
The rescue hoist, after being painted gloss black, was attached with superglue. Then attached again after I dropped the model!
