thank you for your encourgement it's good to know i'm not alone.
what would be helpfully is a stage by stage tutorial describing what to do at the different stages of construction and options avaliable and the right tools to use etc,but i guess that's a lot of work,unless there is one on this excellant site already, anyway i'll check out the sites you've given me the links for.
thank you all again.
alastair (hawklght)
ps anyone for a passion for helicopters like me,if you haven't already been make for the helicopter museum in western supermare it's brilliant ,especially as it has my 2 favourite helicopters ie a huey uh1-h (ex veitnam ) and the russian mil-hind d.