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1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil A year passed since April 11th 2015. A day like today and the whole World seems so empty when you miss your other half.

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil CHAPTER IX - Rear fuselage section assembly The rear fuselage section on real Flettner 282 helicopter was made of doped fabric covering over the steel and wooden frame. Those who have followed this thread from the start, will remember that the...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil The first two production model kits under 1/18 scale, were 3D designed such way to have the seatbelts & buckles embossed on the crew seat cushions - a tactic that later altered, since customers mostly prefered to add their own harness or leave...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil Those who have followed this thread from the start, will remember that the front fuselage cover had already been covered with an overall dark undercoat and later gradually airbrushed with RLM 71 Dunkelgrün FS 34079 to achieve proper gradations...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil CHAPTER VIII - Crew seats & front fuselage cover assembly Each one of the 1/18 scale Flettner 282 V21 kits contains two crew seats for the pilot and for the rearwards facing observer. The observer’s seat consists of two perforated plywood...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil If the assembly sequence would follow the instructions by-the-book, the two battery packs should be placed on appropriate brackets located on either side of the transmission unit as shown in the picture from the kit manual. Since the original...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil Once the radial engine mounting process completed, I would attempt to turn a pig’s ear to silk purse - in other words, to paint the 3D printed cooling fan in such way to look like made of wood. Since (as commented into previous paragraphs) I...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil The engine’s cooling fan, proved to be the most controversial part of the kit. What really happened? Well, first things first: The Kolibri helicopter was equipped with an air-cooled 7-cylinders radial engine located inside the fuselage...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil Well, it took approx 230 pictures and several thousand text words so far, to present the first actual plastic-to-plastic CA gluing. As previously mentioned into “CHAPTER III”, I prefer to follow the “paint individual parts first and assemble...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil When powerplant paintjob looked OK to me, it was about time to attempt mounting both 7-cylinder radial engines as required - the first one onto helicopter’s tubular frame and the second one placed on the wheeled stand. As described into through...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil CHAPTER VII - Radial engine(s) painting, weathering & mounting Setting as a task to build the model in such a way that all the maintenance hatches, removable doors, hoods & sliding panels would remain opened to make helicopter’s internal...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil CHAPTER VI - Balkenkreuz & swastikas water slide decals In recent years, most scale model companies avoid (for political correctness reasons) to depict the swastika symbol on kit box and the water slide decal film. In addition, some scale...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil Once the base coat has cured, I brushed the oils with a broad, soft brush and spread the paint around until the desired colour density is achieved. Because working in oils is a little bit goes a long way, I started by putting just a little bit...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil Replicating wood is one of those feared tasks in modeling that many try to avoid at all costs. Having a couple of different methods in mind to simulate wood in scale, but knowing that the following method is much accurate and easier to re-do if...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil CHAPTER V - Fuselage tubular frame painting Most of the FL-282 related WWII era pictures reveal that the fuselage truss-type welded steel tube frame on the Kriegsmarine’s early helicopters was painted light grey colour, following the general...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil The goal of modulation technique is to artificially enhance the model so the viewer sees more than what is really there. This is nothing new to us; figure modelers and 2D illustrators have been using this idea for years. Verlinden-era...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil @ Christian, The actual length of the tube in which the air flows (measuring from entrance untill exit outside of room) is about 75 cm. The fact that there was a 120 mm wide opening on the wall (right next to hobby bench) available to exit off...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil @ Christian, Well, I think that the phrase "...it require two separate fans to run..." is not just right. You can place only one, or two, or maybe ten of them if you are planning to build a flight test wind tunnel. The reason I bought two...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil As I later found out when first tested the spraybooth, the ventilators proved more powerful than expected, producing a suction flow of total 300 m3/h, meaning that (if my calculations are correct) the air inside the 60 litres paint chamber is...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil Having succeeded (in her first airbrushing attempt) to spray black paint onto my clean & tidy hobby bench, I realized that it was time to urgently have a new spray booth for her, considering that my old one broke down after almost 15+ years of...