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@ Hubert, When Greek king Philipp II of Macedons noticed the abilities of his young prince Alexander the Great, he told him: "...my son ask for thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee...". After having a look on pics of your (8-10 yrs old?) son's work, I think it's...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil As most of you already know, I am founder & owner of the Anyuta 3D which started almost 10 years ago originally operated solely on digital projects for use in industrial construction. Later, on 2012, Anyuta 3D expanded into the scale modeling...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil @ Christian, Hmmm yeah your point sounds right. Seems like growing weed and fuel cannot stand together. The problem is that the pictured diorama is already built and these pics are quite old - just upload them now. What I can do, is not to make...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil @ Christian, I fully appreciate your advice and thanks for sharing your opinion. I think that scale modeling is a well balanced combination of realism & artistic view. Right? IMHO human-built concrete / asphalt ground cannot beat mother Nature...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil Been long time since last visit, huh? Well, let's remember some hobby fun again. :) The objective is to build two different diorama scenes for two different versions of the same helicopter: One for the full fuselage version of the 1/18 scale...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil The helicopter model secured in place, by wedging the pins under the wheels into holes that had been already opened on concrete (that's the reason wheels had pins underneath). Once the Kolibri placed on display, each one of all these previously...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil Keep in mind that you should first dip the sponge in acrylic paint and then remove the excess on a paper towel - otherwise it would end up with large blobs of paint on surface instead of a chipping effect. Anyway, if you are interested to have a...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil CHAPTER XII - Concrete apron display base construction When I started this Kolibri project for a collector located in Kiel, Germany and later built more identical helicopters for other customers and my own collection at home too, I was...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil CHAPTER XI - Assembling individual parts As soon as most individual 3D printed parts on both “full fuselage” & “cutaway” scale model kit versions were already painted & weathered, everything should be combined and assembled as an overall built...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil After all kit parts washed in White Spirit & water to clean the oil traces, every section of the model has been repeatedly dry fit tested to ensure that all individual parts could be later combined together as an overall built model. When...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil Although 3D printed models do not differ so much from ordinary kits, the plastic material may cause surprises. Some of the kit parts may feel a little greasy and appeat slight traces of oil on their surface. As I've already described into...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil Rotary hand pump used by techical crews & maintenance personnel to transfer fuel from the 55 gallons drums to aircraft & armoured vehicles fuel tanks or into the 20 lt fuel canisters (both drums & canisters are available for sale at Anyuta 3D...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil Some additional parts unrelated to the helicopter structure, also 3D printed to be used later as part of a diorama scene. For example few 1/18 scale 20 litres fuel canisters, a couple of 1/18 scale 200 litres fuel drums as used by Wehrmacht...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil As soon as 3D printing process completed, the produced parts were cleaned & checked for broken parts or imperfections by Shapeways 3D printing lab specialized personnel. Later, everything carefully packed and shipped to my home address using...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil After digitally building the Fl-282 Kolibri cutaway 3D model using only mouse clicks, I saved it as an STL - STereoLithography format binary file and forward it on the 3D replicator to start generating the individual parts of the actual scale...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil Approx 50% of the components are copied & pasted from the already existing full fuselage version and (lucky me) I did not had to design everything from the start. For example, the complex of intermeshing rotor gearbox, the 7-cylinders radial...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil After studing the available reference (few hundreds of pics, blueprints, slides & negatives, videos, technical data and original Luftwaffe's text documents) kindly offered from a variety of sources such as Deutsches museum flugwerft...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil CHAPTER X - Parallel build challenge? Accepted When I started this project almost two years ago, I had in mind to also present the “cutaway” model kit version step-by-step WIP, as soon as the “full fuselage” model kit building would have been...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil Steering of the Fl-282 was achieved by a combination of the rudder and differential collective pitch change on the two rotors, but only the rudder could give steering during autorotation since collective pitch was then ineffective (another...

1/18 scale Flettner Fl-282 V21 Kolibri scratchbuil Wishing to remember this day and honor her sweet & loving memory, last week Anyuta 3D decided to make an offer for few fellow modelers & skilled craftsmen by sending a limited number of coupons. During last week, few hand-picked forum members...