more air support for last weeks model, nice

@Worrissey said:
"more air support for last weeks model, nice"

Or to capture today’s RMotD, that’s reasonable too.

@Worrissey said:
"more air support for last weeks model, nice"
Maybe it's a Police Drone since there's no interior.

Yes boss, yes boss, yes boss, yes boss
Police in helicopter, a search fi mari*****

Song was 6 years after this release.

That's nice. Maybe I can make a modern version of this.

This very well could have been my first set. I also had a boat that had sailors with no faces and fused arms and legs. Still got all my 70’sand 80’s sets and some instructions too.

would that be a redesign of the helicopter from 653?

@MCLegoboy said:
" @Worrissey said:
"more air support for last weeks model, nice"
Maybe it's a Police Drone since there's no interior."

Yes this is actually to scale with minifigs, they won’t get inside it but can remote control it!

@Lego_lord said:
"That's nice. Maybe I can make a modern version of this."

That's what I was thinking. The only thing you'd have to adjust for is the rotor, because the plate it was mounted on had the post in the middle of a 2x3 plate, rather than a 2x2 as is done nowadays. Speaking of 2x3 pieces, depending on how you define "modern," you'd also need to find something else to use for the windscreen, since a 2x3 slope hasn't been produced in trans-clear (which is the only trans color it was ever produced in) since 1986, with 1469.

One of my earliest Lego memories is building this set as a young child, circa 2009, from tattered instructions, with the light of a gas lamp during a power outage!

As a helicopter mechanic, I'd honestly say it is pretty realistic! The lack of a tail rotor is the biggest issue, but otherwise I think it's a good blocky simplification of real helicopters

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Lego_lord said:
"That's nice. Maybe I can make a modern version of this."

... depending on how you define "modern..."

I was thinking something similar to 71266. With 1x2 reverse smooth slopes. I think it wil look good.

The pilot would be doing well to see through the windscreen or windows.

@MCLegoboy said:
" @Worrissey said:
"more air support for last weeks model, nice"
Maybe it's a Police Drone since there's no interior."

Pilot attaches to the nose. I guess legs hang from the tail somewhere.

Interesting proportions, with the fuselage being three-wide and the landing gear being five-wide.
I was curious about how they built that and looked it up in the instructions.
Simple, yet fascinating imho.

Compared to today's set designs, this is almost a microbuild.