In this part of the tutorial we finish making the helicopter. This includes the making of the cockpit sub assembly.

This helicopter does have some sub-assembly work to it. One of the things is the cockpit.

With a sub-assembly you put together a small group of parts to make a unit. In this case we make the cockpit and this will be installed into the fuselage of the helicopter.

The cockpit also includes the blade assembly which is inserted into it without any glue so it can rotate freely.

That assembly is then cemented into the fuselage of the helicopter.

Then the second half of the fuselage is glued on. This encloses the cockpit into the craft.

From here we add a series of parts to the fuselage of the craft.

This includes the mini wings and the armaments under the wings.

And the glass of the cockpit. And there are a lot of little detail parts that go on the helicopter, things like the handles you can see just to the right of the pilot.

And that's it. The building part of the process is done.

Let's finish it by adding the decals

Building and Detailing Model Aircraft

You will learn how to master construction and finishing of plastic model aircraft with basic skills such as assembling aligning, gluing, surface preparation, painting, and decaling. Then you will be able to add extra details and use more advanced techniques.