Homemade wooden toy helicopter

[@rexrcs]

Excellent crafty work

[@Del350K4]

Thanks, Rex!

[@satorrotas]

Brilliant !! It's really a very well done construction, starting from just a piece of wood, I think it's great. Your ideas are always excellent, and staging it with the real sound of a helicopter was great, almost you could believe it was going to fly away. Bravo Del 👏

[@Del350K4]

Thank you very much, Pascal! The piece of wood had the beginnings of a helicopter shape, and I was holding an angle grinder! "Hmm", I thought...

[@satorrotas]

@@Del350K4 And you did well, great idea 😉👍

[@Del350K4]

@@satorrotas Thank you : )

[@satorrotas]

@@Del350K4 You're welcom Del 😉👍

[@AdventureTimeRC]

So cool Del i love your home made diy projects you always come up with interesting new things to see this helicopter very well crafted and the wind blows rotor was cool maybe a bit of brass sleeve inserted in the top with some powder graphite might be enough to make it work on the radiator

[@Del350K4]

I'm very glad that you like this little toy, Brent! In the video it was parked on a domestic fan, so I could spool up the rotors and shut them down to match the soundtrack. So I don't think I'll have to do much to get it to spin over a radiator! Graphite might be enough - and it so happens that I already have some! Thank you for the idea : )

[@carloshnunez]

Very good idea

[@MarkBryanRC]

Hi Del! Wow, I would have loved a little toy helicopter like that when I was a kid! Great craftmanship, I fear that this kind of ingenious creativity will be gone for good in the near future. It's so nice to see a hand-crafted toy and very rare these days. Loved the sound effects, I was willing the heli to take off at the end! But, as a child, in my mind, IT DID!!! ✌👍👍

[@Del350K4]

Hello Mark! Thank you - I really do remember having a very basic varnished wooden toy train which ran on a red wooden track with grooves for the wheels. There's something about wooden toys which I did, and do, find appealing. To make it spin up I had to nick my wife's bedside fan, lie it on its back, and park the chopper on top of it. I used a bit of Lexan offcut from my Peter Smith M05 2CV body to reduce friction. I'm hoping to persuade my wife to drive the 2CV for me this weekend so I can get some tracking shots and post the build vid. I'm planning to watch your Scorpion video tonight, after she retires for the night.

[@thecontractor365]

Great a scratch build mate, an excellent sculpt. I love this little twin rotor chopper. How did you get the rotors to spin ? Was it a hairdryer or the wind ? Either way, it was great to see this model come alive like that. Great touch adding the start-up sfx too - that certainly added to the realism. Nice work. I love out of the blue videos like this...👍🏻👍🏻.

[@Del350K4]

Hello, mate! I pinched a domestic fan from the house and laid it on its back on the ground. I parked the heli on the safety grille and switched the fan on. When the time came for the blades to begin to spin I plugged the fan in to the extension lead for the lawnmower. For the sound effects I just KZbin heli start-up, run, and shut-down sounds on my phone and held it next to the camera while it was recording the helicopter. I must admit that I've been hoping you'd see this and looking forward to a comment from you : )

[@thecontractor365]

@@Del350K4 Yeah, I meant to add that you really know your helicopter anatomy. Not a lot of people would have comprehended to add the engine, let alone sculpting it as accurately as possible from bamboo. It's very impressive.

[@Del350K4]

@@thecontractor365 after posting this video I was scrolling down through the terrible wooden toy helis and found one that's very similar to mine, but a bit better. Grrr!

[@RC3DPrintAdventure]

Nice fun project Del. Some really nice detail & thought there! 👍

[@Del350K4]

Thank you! I sometimes consider recycling an indoor heli which no longer flies (I have several) & fitting a main & a tail rotor motor, so I can fit a discreet switch and have the rotors vome alive.

[@hollyhillrc]

Love it 😍👍🏼👍🏼

[@Del350K4]

Hello, Derek! I'm glad that you like this video. I had the idea of using a domestic fan to get the rotors to spin the evening before I filmed it, and excitedly set it all up the next day.

[@carloshnunez]

Cool my friend always bussy making something good job 🔵🔵🔵👍👍👍😀😀😀🔵🔵🔵

[@Del350K4]

Hey, Carlos! Thank you - I hoped you would like this little toy : )

[@islandrc-duke1972]

wow,cool helicopter brother

[@Del350K4]

Hey, thanks, Duke - I started making it a while ago but misplaced the skids. Then I found them the other day and decided to finish it off.

[@islandrc-duke1972]

@@Del350K4 awesome work brother

[@gustavodoblas1705]

Eres increible.😎

[@Del350K4]

¡Hola, Gustavo! Me alegro mucho que te haya gustado el video. Casi logré esconder el ventilador - me creía que lo había conseguido - pero se nota un poco.