Hmm...have you considered sweeping the wingtips on the rotor blades? [link] The apache's just one example, but alot of attack helicopters have swept-tip rotor blades...something about increased stability at higher speeds or something. Wikipedia won't say what, but there's a very specific reason that eludes me.

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In all honesty? I think your rose tinted glasses are cracked.

I think this version is much better
The rotor/hull nexus seems more durable, de-camoed weapons look more natural, shortened barrel is now proportionaly much more fitting & the cockpit bars help a lot
Also camo is better fitting todays use - more desert like
Last but not least aside from the model itself the bg is now much better as well
Must admit that even these "small" changes've improved the bird very much

As for the electronics, you might find some hints on how much would be seen from this angle on one of these: [link] , [link]
For close-up of the electronics follow this one: [link]
For any further details or technical info you might consult this: [link]

Hope it helps & as ever - best of luck with improving

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Without thinking of good or evil, show me your original face before your mother and father were born.

the blades of the rotor look a bit short... but maybe im wrong, good work still! and you say you hate heli's!

Yah, you are wrong (no offense ) but its honestly not surprising, i zoomed a bit out (not moved the camera but zoomed the virtual lense) to make it a bit "more parallel" but that way the rotors look a bit stumpy (they are actually very long though, nearly spanning to the peak of the nose and about 80% to the back wing, theres about 2m between rotor and tail rotor

The real problem though, is that what appears to be a shadow problem, when i move the light source way out to simulate a sun i get quite some artefacting on the nose so i had to actually put 3 shadow casters in (which is why the front nose shadow is not matching with the rest, one of these days i really need to redo my light setups

I noticed that too, but the helicopter i modelled it after (the eurocopter) does not have these wing-tips, i think (it was bad to see in that one pic, perspectice sucks )

But ill be honest, the rotor blades just seem wrong to me, not quite sure what it is though i havent found real close ups of the blades esp the part connecting to the heli (apparantly thats a sort of rudder?)

While i know how a helicopter FLIES (aka, in terms of physics ) i have no idea how it actually technically works, which is bad i guess

Ah. I know a little about how they technically work, at least in principle. Execution comes in many styles, of course...but helicopters tilt the rotors in different directions using what's basically pulleys and levers on steroids, generating lift in the desired direction and sucking the copter into that direction. So yeah, it's kinda like a rudder, in that it controls direction by creating pressure differances (though as to where the high and low pressure is generated, it's the exact opposite of a ship's rudder)

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In all honesty? I think your rose tinted glasses are cracked.

yeah, i understand. maybe you could use a more dynamic range of sight then? like a more extreme perspective, that will make you loose some detail and proportions but it will surely look cool.