Armin A.First flight of my new Vario Lama SA 315 B 1:4
First flight with my new Lama👍
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Jon E.Roban Hughes 500D
This 500 was built last year. Flew great right off the bench with no modifications other than pinning the torque tube and shortening the landing gear struts by two inches to give a more realistic look. Powered by Align 850MX, Castle 120 on 12S, Spektrum electronics, Bavarian 3X.
Thanks to Robert Ables for the great photos of my models in the air Saturday at the Texas Heli Bash in Grapevine!
As usual, beautiful shots! Thanks for contributing, Mike.
HeliFactory Bell 412 Looks Sharp!
Check out HeliFactory's beautiful Bell 412. The detail is quite good!
• Scale 1:5
• Rotor diameter 2,8 m
• TOW with Jakadofsky PRO 6000
• Weighs less than 51 pounds
• Flex drive for tail rotor
• Fuselage in sandwich vacuum technology.
FY R.
RVE's introduction to scale
Vario's quality at Roban price, it's 1/4.5 scale and comes painted. It flies great and the mechanics are first rate with steel torque tube.
Uwe B.
ROTOR LIVE 2026 Impressions
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Rotor Live Meeting at Iffezheim
Greetings from Rotor Live
Some fun flying with the 500 size CH-54A and MH-53J last week.
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500 MH-53M Flights
Got a few more flights in on the 500 size MH-53, and it’s good to have it behaving nicely. Finally got the cyclic gains high enough that it doesn’t feel as squirrely in ground effect any more. I think I can finally (mostly) call this project complete.
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The Fleet in for Maintenance
It finally got cool around here so all the chickens are in the coop waiting for inspection and updates!!
Let’s see what your coop looks like! Post a new thread with your birds!
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Camo Working Overtime
She disappears easily
After a few months of tuning and troubleshooting, I finally got the 500 size MH-53M Pave Low up in the air today. Still have some issues to sort out (uncooperative retracts), but it's now flying smoothly. Thank Paul Lange for the excellent in flight photos!
Introducing Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion acc. to MCAS Miramar HMH-462 JF 12 #161997
Hello guy's, I'm Norbert and proud to present my model at HeliStorm. It's an cooperation from Norbert Schürz and Egon Hubmayer from Austria/Europe and built from scratch! I's been realized very different to any oder RC-helicopter. Detaillied description you can find in pictures section below. Currently two of them are built, but we would build further three on demand.
If you like it give me a...
Hello guy's, I'm Norbert and proud to present my model at HeliStorm. It's an cooperation from Norbert Schürz and Egon Hubmayer from Austria/Europe and built from scratch! I's been realized very different to any oder RC-helicopter. Detaillied description you can find in pictures section below. Currently two of them are built, but we would build further three on demand.
If you like it give me a hug 😄
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500 size MH-53 Pave Low
Another project airworthy! Got the 500 size MH-53M Pave Low up in the air today for a few test flights. Cyclic gains still need some tuning, and the ramp servo needs replacement, but it’s close to complete. Has the most features I’ve tried to pack into a 500 size model before, including retracts, nose gear steering, working ramp, 3 retractable landing lights, nav lights, a searchlight, and...
Another project airworthy! Got the 500 size MH-53M Pave Low up in the air today for a few test flights. Cyclic gains still need some tuning, and the ramp servo needs replacement, but it’s close to complete. Has the most features I’ve tried to pack into a 500 size model before, including retracts, nose gear steering, working ramp, 3 retractable landing lights, nav lights, a searchlight, and interior lights.
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Gonzalo M.Kamov K50/52
We are ready for HSM25. The Kamov KA-50/52 needed some additional blade tracking adjustments, and it's performing well. I've replaced the front cabin with the 'Black Shark' version 50, and it looks combat-ready. I can easily switch to the 'Alligator' version 52. Matthias Strupf's Heliclassics product is exceptional. Do you like the Black Shark or the Alligator better?
Rémy F.
Bell 212 UN (Jetcat PHT2 V2)
At Heli-Divonne Symposium, May 2025, France.
Also flown at 50 years Vario event in Germany, to demonstrate fuselage quality: 100% no paint, only stickers and vinyl. See also Vario Wiki for build tips.
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Love the mods on the truck!! I’m towing my Ka-32 with a 1/6 Axial SCX6 Jeep Cherokee
Some awesome slo-mo footage of my 500 size UH-1C Huey Gunship at the Golden Triangle RC Club’s Heli Fly-In yesterday with some fitting music.. Thanks Raymond Cervantes for the fantastic video!
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Bell 47
Bell 47 sport scale complete and tested! Vario mechanics KDE power, 12S. Powerful and smooth.
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Some moonlit flying on the 500 size UH-34 this evening
After a lot of building and planning, I finally was able to take photos of the 500 size Sikorsky HO3S-1 performing a rescue mission of a pilot from a ditched F9F Panther today. This recreates a scene in the the beginning of the movie "The Bridges at Toko-Ri". To get everything in place for the shots, I converted a beat up RC Lander F9F Panther to a boat so that it could be steered into position...
After a lot of building and planning, I finally was able to take photos of the 500 size Sikorsky HO3S-1 performing a rescue mission of a pilot from a ditched F9F Panther today. This recreates a scene in the the beginning of the movie "The Bridges at Toko-Ri". To get everything in place for the shots, I converted a beat up RC Lander F9F Panther to a boat so that it could be steered into position on the lake (over 6 lbs of ballast was required to make it float at a reasonable displacement). Pilot and crew chief figures were 3D printed.
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500 Skycrane Flights
Had a great time flying today at B.E.S.T. (Best Electrics in South Texas) at the Tri County Barnstormers Field in New Waverly, TX. Got a few photos of the 500 size Skycrane in the air as well as the HO3S-1 (H-5). The Skycrane is flying well, and the next steps will be working on the cargo release system, and painting/detailing. Possibly some revision of the tail rotor pitch linkage as well.
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Eye Candy
Pics from a recent visit to the Technik museum in Speyer Germany . Enjoy!
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UH-1Y Venom
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Had a great time flying the 500 size Huey, UH-34, and HO3S (H-5), at Warbirds Over the Johnson Space Center 2 weeks ago. Was a fantastic opportunity to fly some helis at an awesome historic location! Winds were very high (18 gusting 35 mph) but it didn’t stop me from getting in a few flights. Unfortunately, a gust did catch the H-34 during spool down and scraped the blade tips. Blades have...
Had a great time flying the 500 size Huey, UH-34, and HO3S (H-5), at Warbirds Over the Johnson Space Center 2 weeks ago. Was a fantastic opportunity to fly some helis at an awesome historic location! Winds were very high (18 gusting 35 mph) but it didn’t stop me from getting in a few flights. Unfortunately, a gust did catch the H-34 during spool down and scraped the blade tips. Blades have already been replaced and the aircraft returned to flight.
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Alexandra N.Z. Scale Heli Meet...videos to come...
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A few shots of my 500 size UH-34D in the air last week.
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Beautiful day to fly in Colorado!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2024.
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Winter maintenance is underway!
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I do not have onboard filters and haven’t for 10 years. I filter the fuel coming out of the jug. I see the inline filter as a fail point. Others will disagree but all I fly are turbine helis and it has worked for me!
Bernd B.
Sikorsky H-34 in 1/4 scale
Rotor diameter (4,25 m) (13.9 feet)
Electro version with two times 10 kW Hacker Q100 engines.
Battery for more than 10 minutes flights time .
One of the biggest RC-models of the world .
TOW 75 kg or 165 pounds
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Maiden complete 😊 600 size Marvelcraft. Paint scheme honoring the Blue Angels
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Any scalers sail this week on Disney Fantasy?
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A cool shot of my KA-32. I am ever fascinated by this beast.
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A video would be great! I too have trouble imagining how that setup works.
David F.
Out in Canton Michigan USA fall phase out air show 09/23/2023 pilot David L Foster & Steve pulley photos, (Red Bandana Dude Photography) Kurt Affholter jkooler@att.net
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Few self indulgent pictures of my Vario !/4 scale electric EC135 taken at the weekend now fully operational. I just love the way this thing changes colours in flight.
That's so cool !!!!
Representing flingwings at Jets & Props Over Arvada.
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Maybe come to Warbirds Over Cherry Creek tomorrow! Going to be great weather!
Ready for handover to the customer. Big Lama Turbine.
We also build your dream model.
Mail: info@gumiodler-modellbau-services.de
Web: www.gumiodler-modellbau-services.de
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Great work Philip! I invite you to click into the BRANDS section and add your build service to it. More people should know about the exceptional work you do!
My Vario MD 500 1:5 has finished. The mechanics are from PSG in Germany, the Tail from Ludwig Benda, the blades are M-blades. Motor Pyro 800, FBL Bavarian Axon. The performance is great and I have enough power. The light unit is from Unilight.
Batteries 12S5000 flightime 8 minutes
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After being in build for many, many years my 1/4 scale Vario EC135 took to the air. Swapping the old Kontronik ESC to the new 250HV was the final piece of the jigsaw. Lots of people to thank that enabled this moment, they know who they are.
The scheme is based on a full size, just has my registration instead (I used paint left over from the full size paint job). Video is its first full flight...
After being in build for many, many years my 1/4 scale Vario EC135 took to the air. Swapping the old Kontronik ESC to the new 250HV was the final piece of the jigsaw. Lots of people to thank that enabled this moment, they know who they are.
The scheme is based on a full size, just has my registration instead (I used paint left over from the full size paint job). Video is its first full flight after hover tests and flown by Vario team pilot in the UK Mick Pattison… it was windy but boy can this man fly a scale model. The colour changes from green, blue, purple and gold.
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Robert M.
Edgewood flyers Scale fun fly on Long Island NY. The event happened on 14th to 16th of July 2023. Some pictures of Butch Wellmaker, Comanche in action.
I also want to share my 450 Mi-24 Hind finally got it in the air.
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Flying under one of Gods wonders today Canton Michigan 🙂🌈
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Roban MD 500e 800 size out for some flights canton Michigan
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The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), created in 2003 at the request of the United Nations, provides common air services, including light cargo transport for the wider humanitarian community to and from areas of crisis and intervention. To fulfill its mission, UNHAS uses a fleet of 75 aircraft and helicopters chartered from commercial air operators. Here is the Bell Twin Two-Twelve...
The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), created in 2003 at the request of the United Nations, provides common air services, including light cargo transport for the wider humanitarian community to and from areas of crisis and intervention. To fulfill its mission, UNHAS uses a fleet of 75 aircraft and helicopters chartered from commercial air operators. Here is the Bell Twin Two-Twelve in action.
Beautiful model!
Pops flying the mothership today out at Chatfield! Thing is mean.
Your "Pop" is a fine pilot with a VERY nice helicopter !!
Good weather in SE Michigan today MD500e in flight.🙂
Butch W.
The NEHC hosted the Joe Howard Memorial Scale Fun Fly this past weekend in Mansfield MA. About 12-15 pilots were able to attend making for a great weekend of flying. A couple of very unique helicopters (a couple of K-Max prototypes) were on hand along with a maiden flight of a Vario 429.
Smoked burgers and dogs were the lunch fair for each day and pizza at the field Saturday evening so we...
The NEHC hosted the Joe Howard Memorial Scale Fun Fly this past weekend in Mansfield MA. About 12-15 pilots were able to attend making for a great weekend of flying. A couple of very unique helicopters (a couple of K-Max prototypes) were on hand along with a maiden flight of a Vario 429.
Smoked burgers and dogs were the lunch fair for each day and pizza at the field Saturday evening so we could fly until dark. If you’re in the north east this is an event you should attend.
Thanks to Joel Rosenzweig for putting the event together each year. Its a fantastic flying site and always a great time.
A few pictures of the machines from the weekend.
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Had a great weekend at Warbirds Over Denver! More scale helicopters flew than any other time in the event’s nearly 20-year history! The first picture is a shot of my HeliClassics Mi-171 expertly captured by Robert “Bud” Gates.
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This was a traditional warbird event. We are INTERLOPERS! But, with scale birds, the grizzled warbird pilots are more receptive to helicopters than in days gone by.
Out for some flights in Michigan EC-130 & MD 500e 😊
Beautiful paint scheme!
A few photos from flying the H-34 yesterday with Alan Shepard’s Freedom 7 Mercury Capsule slung underneath. This was part of the noon demo period at the Warbird event at Bomber Field in Monaville, TX.
I’ll bet all the airplane guys dug it!!
Mark S.
1/4.5 Sikorsky WS 51 (H5) built from scratch by Gilbert Escalier. The plug for the original is now in the USA and will be available in the near future
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A few photos of my helis at today's Golden Triangle RC Heli Fly-In. Had a great day of flying with multiple flights on all aircraft.
ScaleHeliPilot G.
Roban EC 145 some pictures of my build and flight video
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Had a great day of flying yesterday. Brought out most of the heli fleet, including the 600 Bell 47, and 500 size H-5, H-34, Apache, and Huey.
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Success! Got the Roban MD500 out today for maiden of the new 5 blade head. Needs a few tweaks to get rid of an occasional tail bounce and add a bit more cyclic throw in. All in all, I am happy with it.
I set phasing as much as I could mechanically then finished setup with the Brain FCU software.
I have head speed of 1850, may increase to 1900 to see if it eliminates the tail bounce.
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A few shots of my 500 size Apache in the air this weekend
That is one badass looking chopper!!
Algerian Mi-24 Superhind MK3
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Thanks Carlos! Can you get me a flight shot? this is a bit grainy. : )
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Somsak V.
This fuselage ordered from Vario Product, Installed with Trex700
3 Blades Head, control by H1 GPS. cut and painted by myself.
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Keith G.
First post on this forum. Haven’t flown Heli’s for over 10yrs. Decided to get into the scale game. Picked up a Roban 800 MD500D Magnum PI edition.
I am really enjoying my build and getting acquainted with heli setups again. I have been flying on the sim 2-3 times a week and it’s like riding a bike. It all comes back in a few sessions.
So far I am almost complete with the scale build side of...
First post on this forum. Haven’t flown Heli’s for over 10yrs. Decided to get into the scale game. Picked up a Roban 800 MD500D Magnum PI edition.
I am really enjoying my build and getting acquainted with heli setups again. I have been flying on the sim 2-3 times a week and it’s like riding a bike. It all comes back in a few sessions.
So far I am almost complete with the scale build side of things. Just need to mount the load line hook and a few other minor details.
At the moment…. I have built a test airframe and I am setting up the Demon 3x.
I have been taking my time with this one as I am kind of ocd. Lol Did full carpet and headliner in the interior. Had a co worker work some magic on GI Jane. Who we now call GI Dane lol. I can’t say enough about Tyler Gray Models scale detailed parts for the MD. Really sets it off and functionality at getting to electronics.
Here are some build pics.
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A little while ago I had posted about adding a 5 blade head to a new Roban MD500e with TREX 500 mechanics. Well here it is all done. Just waiting on weather to test fly.
I ended up using an Egodrift 4025 1220kv motor with 14t pinion for a target of 18-1900 rpm on 6s.
After reading through the phasing article in the article section and the Brain setup software, phasing seems like it's right...
A little while ago I had posted about adding a 5 blade head to a new Roban MD500e with TREX 500 mechanics. Well here it is all done. Just waiting on weather to test fly.
I ended up using an Egodrift 4025 1220kv motor with 14t pinion for a target of 18-1900 rpm on 6s.
After reading through the phasing article in the article section and the Brain setup software, phasing seems like it's right.
Time will tell.
Vario Chinook!
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Did a 2nd take on the Mercury capsule recovery today with the 500 size UH-34 Choctaw. Had perfect weather and some nice blue water. Finally got the shot for shot recreation of the original photo of Shepard's Recovery pretty close. Just after that, the magnet let go and left the capsule floating in the water. Luckily, I was able to use the rotor wash to push the capsule back to shore.
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Eurocopter Tiger EC 665
Full scale 1 : 4,8
Both version France and German
Full scale body kit for turbine- or electro engines
Rotor diameter 2,75 m
Target eye is working
Cockpit with running LCD monitors
Turbine Jakadofsky PRO-X
TOW more than 33 kg
Model with German certification license for helicopter up to 150 kg
Flex drive system for tail rotor
For more information please contact Heli-Factory
Wanted to share a few excellent photos of my 500 size Sikorsky UH-34D Choctaw taken by Chris Wolfe during the Bomber Field B-17 Gathering event in Monaville, TX.
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Yesterday morning I finally had the chance to recreate the recovery of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 Mercury Capsule with my RC UH-34 Choctaw over the water at the Southern Scale Helicopter Challenge. The helicopter was modeled and painted in the scheme of the real Mercury Redstone 3 recovery chopper, so it was tons of fun to actually sling load a capsule underneath it.
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Got my first two flights in on this museum quality Mi-171 built by HeliClassics!
I'm excited to get my Air Crane from Mark Smith of HeliWorkshop! This Crane shot is one that Joe Howard built for me quite a number of years ago. I love the Crane!
Finished the final touches on the 500 size Miami-Dade Bell 412 and got a few flights on it. Very happy with how it turned out, and it flies quite well.
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Thanks! I used the Align 4 blade head and unfortunately the blades are discontinued. They used to be available on Aliexpress. If you are in Europe, HeliTec makes some excellent 430mm blades that would work great, but you can’t get them in the USA.
Finishing up a commission project, 500 size PKM Bell 412 finished as a Miami Dade Fire Rescue bird. Hoping to get the first flight completed this weekend.
A few photos of my 500 size Sikorsky HO3S-1 (H-5) in the air at a local float fly. Need to get a floating F9F Panther fuselage to rescue some pilots..
That is one crazy looking model, but the guy who dares to fly it over water -- CRAZIER!
Heliclassics Kamov KA32 at NASA field! This time I am flying with the other civilian configuration and in minutes can be converted to the firefighting machine!
I am very excited to have acquired what I believe is the only HeliClassics Mi-171 in the US! I had to modify my van slides to accommodate the 29” main gear. A Robart cradle holds the tail nicely. The scale detail is stunning.
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