Since I wanted to create a Bell 212 but had info on the Bell 412, I decided to make both.  They share the same engines and are physically identical, except for the rotor system.  This lets all the hard work go towards two separate aircraft.  I had a flying rotor system for this aircraft in about 30 minutes and a fuselage and paint job after a full weekend.  You can see where all my work goes...  The paint job is of a Bell 412SP and uses a slightly different variant of the PT6T-3 engine with more torque than the base 412 and 212, but I didn't change the settings from the 212.  So the matching of the paint and the engine specifics are not correct with this model.  I'll leave that up to you to play with if you desire.  I chose the paint arbitrarily from online photos.

    DON'T SAVE THIS MODEL WITH PLANE MAKER - The skids are custom and Plane Maker will overwrite them with the defaults.  If you do want to change the aircraft, follow the instructions in the included text file <new skid variables.txt> to restore the custom skids.  You will need ACF2TXT with the 6.51 definition file.  Both of these are available at Mark Fisher's page under Resources.

Enjoy!

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