here's the latest update on the westland merlin mh101 i am building so far i have been
able to animate the rotors and tail section to fold up open the crew access door
and main winch door

ok main the fuslarge is made and the interior as well i have been working on a vc as
well now i have figured out how to ad working gauges and switch's (at last !!!!)
there's also a sonar dipper that is animated to drop down to 30ft below it
as you can see i have done some texture's as well but still need to refine them
a bit more

1 should i inclued a basic paint texture package so repaints can be made for each place it used???
2 do you wnat the second door on the main winch to jetision  ???
3 the navy version are different from the army verions so a new model is in the works
after this one is complete

one small problem i have run into is the front gear not turning tho i know how to do this
linking the front axle to the (rudder box)(c_gear) in an effort to get this working
even checking the config file

as for crew the model size is too bigg to have any

Looking good so far, very good indeed. However, the gear does seem to be a little long, with the helo sitting rather high up.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1087848/L/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1087670/L/

As you can see, there should be very little clearance between the ground and the large dome underneath.

Still, apart from that, I like it! It'll be one to look out for.

I should imagine the gear is compressed a fair amount when the weight of the helo is resting on them. Hence the differing length of the gear in the model and the pictures.

by the way it was in the hover mode while i took the screen shots forgot that(lol)

This is really looking great, though someone else is also doing a merlin:

http://www.ch-149.no-ip.org/

Looking great though, keep it up!

wooowwww

payware quality!! (or better!)
I just love the folding props! amazing piece-of-art!

as soon it's released, I'm IN!!! LOL

congrats!

How will the start up procedures and engine modeling be?

not too far from release now

What a nice job. You have every reason to be very proud of what you've done there.

Nice, just one question I have:

Other helos have a blurred rotor texture, you seem to have a modeled rotor, I am not yet convinced that it is better, what advances does this have ?

Oh and another question, in your last post, 1st pic, what water texture is that ?

Yay, a merlin.......no good ones out at the moment.

.Mic

just a small vid to see her in action

http://media.putfile.com/UKMIL-Merlin

Thanks for sharing, you've done great animations on the chopper so far.
Greetings,
Fabian

due for release early october we think

Great !

going to be released this week is

HM1
HEW
ASW
HC3

COOL ! Thanks !

Finally A decent merlin!

Thanks!

.Mic

thanks all