Not the only thing that's got done lately, got some more blades almost ready to glue to the bigger spinner. These are taking a bit longer these days, I've discovered that I'm getting a bit of arthritis in my knuckles and if I try to grip these small blade tips for too long while sanding them to shape and profile, the knuckles seize up and I can't move them. Getting old sucks --
Top pic shows the next three blades that are almost ready.
Bottom pic shows something else I wanted to make sure worked, fitting the large F-15 tank on the centerline. I did have to modify the nose to the tank though, that's so I could get the weight further forward. The restricting factor is the nose gear bay, the tank is right up to the rear end of the bay and the long pointy nose had the tank quite a bit further back.
The story is that the standard load out would be this tank, what's carried in the weapons bay, a couple of Sidewinders plus the guns. But it could carry just about anything else should it need to. I'm also thinking of putting on ASRAAM missiles (this is a future tilt-rotor) and just recently I've read an article where they're thinking of making RP's guided. Using the control features of the ASRAAM would be more than practical for this I think, and it wouldn't have to be high tech either because of the short flight time the RP's do.
I'm also thinking that what I have as a FLIR turret, it could have EOTS mounted in it. Just a more robust mounting for flying "down in the weeds" is what I'm thinking here.