Animatronics

Sharing my deep fascination with helicopter weaponry, especially the Cobra's M197 Gatling Gun. To me, this gun has the greatest potential to come alive as a scale model, primarily due to its rotating barrels. I have designed and built many versions and sizes of this gun for different customers over the years, for 1/6 Len Mount and Alterbaum, 1/7 Vario and 1/9 Roban, static and animated. The latest version is a fully auto-run, multimedia experience featuring motion, sound and smoke. Here are all the different gun and TSU variations.
Edited: I've just added the final completed version of the gun and TSU.

I had been tossing around the idea of getting pilots for my helis for the longest time. On one hand, I've always felt it wasn't necessary to have a pilot since I'm not looking inside the heli while I'm flying. On the other hand, it's a nice scale touch.

I ended-up purchasing one from Warbird Pilots with a high voltage servo driven dome and have it tied-in with the collective. I removed the utility harness that came with it since the real Mercy Flight pilots don't use them. The flight suit is the same color the Mercy Flight crew wears, btw. I'm kinda toying with the idea of painting the helmet orange for more accuracy, but I'm not in a big rush to do that, though.