Posts by walkiria

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After long break

Rotor blades

Quote from Katharina

Moin Axel,

ich hatte vor vielen Jahren meine Schreibersche F 13 mit, ich meine tatsächlich japanischen, Piloten besetzt. Bodenpersonal gabs auch dazu. Weiß der Henker wo die herkamen, wahrscheinlich irgendeine Zeitschriftenbeilage. Den richtigen Scan hab ich natürlich nichtmehr, aber vielleicht reicht das ja als Anfangspunkt für die Detektivarbeit.

Viele Grüße
Katharina

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This paper crew members looks like addon from "KARTONOWKA 2/2002" from GPM

CREW

nice photo from net - game find heli

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When you built up the fuselage, are the cardboard formers/bulkheads part of the kit or do you have to transfer from plan to cardboard?

Thanks 👍🏻

Generally, mostly I use "original/default" elements from publish and wire elements maked from templete. In models I use ready canopy selled in stores (if is available).

But sometimes if I see that designed solution is poor (like sometimes weak skeleton for big wings or huge areas without any reinforcements) I add some elements to strenght whole construction. Generally I use 0,5 and 1mm cardboarst "wastes" and wooden tooth/skewer sticks/planks (sometimes I change wire element to wooden). Less often I add wire elements.

Some stores offers ready 3D printed / resin elements (like wheels, small details, bombs, rockets, gun barrels), but I didn't try them yet. Maybe in future, who knows.

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Small steps

Main rotor "head" - blade "core" from wooden skewer sticks

Tail rotor - axis from a toothpick

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Rest of the armament

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In the meantime some details

Observation "head"

Cannon

Tail rotor gearbox cover

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Landing gears

Wheels I made from painted cardboard discs

I add reinforcements from wire

Rear wheel

Main wheel

IMO rolled supports for front wheels are ~1/3 to long - they should be shorter

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Wings

Armament pods

Elements are simple, and fit OK

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Front bottom hump

Front landing gears supports

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I'm back after small break

Tail beam elements

Tail fin

And after gluing to main body, tail rotor drive shaft cover

Camouflage colors fit quite good

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Main rotor gear cover - I glue top element on 1mm cardboard. Small problems with fit back small part

Base reinforcement I glue to fuselage

Then glue whole made module

Look OK.

For next - tail beam

I start glue engines to fuselage from front

Back fit bad, so it was necessary to paint over the color on both sides

And both engine modules

Camouflage pattern fit not bad

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Engines covers

Outlet fins don't have reverse, so I glued It on color paper and roll. When they dry, I glue them to square frame

Next, outside elements (I decide to male joining tabs from black cardboard). And then put inside eleier made frame

The elements are a bit poorly fitted and need to be adjusted, especially the reduction element

Nose part

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Today cockpit segment fuselage part. First I form shape, then glue inside "glasses" in side windows. Next I put all on frame. Little bit shame, that inner side is white (only down are small pieces of colored parts).

When walls dry, I glue rest windows (top & front) cuted for single parts (easier to assembny).

Nose cover

And assembled cockpit segment

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Pilots cockpits elements

And all

In side walls I made small holes to put there inside landing gear wire elements. In original this elements are glued to outside wall, so this plan should be better - I think

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Small step forward with center segment - I decide to remake 2 formers for 1 fromer and joining tab. Here is small color difference between model sheets, small camo mismatch

Pilots cockpits walls - I put it inside as single elements - small problem with length fit, and I had to little bit cut them

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This time in plan is build a helicopter from Republic of South Africa - Atlas/Denel CSH2 Rooivalk from HOBBY MODEL. This publish is 3rd revision from 2004, but still it is an old school model with hand drawing elements (this is offset print not poor quality ANSWER reprint ). So I know what it could be, knowing HOBBY MODEL quality and big problem with symetry in old models .

So let's go.

For first - main center frame (I added stabilizers made of toothpicks for drying time)

And first element - I add parallel reinforcements from 1mm cardboard on both sides were in future will be glued engines elements (so that the fuselage element does not undulate)

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It's nice, that You like it

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Some nice photos at the end

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This time weapon pylons/beams.

"shape" elements I glue on 0,5mm cardborad

Fuel tanks

Bullpup missiles (join line is upside )

And on model (tanks have join line at the bottom and the missiles at the top)

and some details:

Nose probe

New position lights (printed on thin paper)

Barrels

Fuel tank probe - I made it from piece of 2,5mm zinc wire - grey/silver color fit to model color

Quote from ChristianB22

Hello walkiria,

how do you close the gap with color?

greetings

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I made thin stripe from color reserve

Landing hook

Aero airbrakes

pt2

Landing gears bays covers

Assembled landing gears and covers

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Small step forward, this time landing gears. A lot of job and small visual progress

tbc

Quote from Thomas Stickler

...shouldn't the grey part not be also red?

*edit: I stand myself corrected, just found a picture of the original. You are right. The cover drawing from GPM is apparently also wrong.

I saw both versions, but this was more (on cover and model part are bad ). There is also no "bold" on rudder top

Rudder:

Original (right) and My concept (Left) - more red than reddish brown

Assembly (I changed method of mounting the fin - I think easier but a little longer)

"recolored"

Quote from Thomas Stickler

I second that completely. Nowadays, with computer added construction, completely unnecessary. For

me, this and the wrongly coloured rudder is basically a no-buy....

Nevertheless, you make the best out of it!

Regards, Thomas

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Keep calm - my rudder will be fabulous

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This time - horizontal steering fins.

If wings skeleton was horrible unfunctional, this is a massacre. It do NOTHING - it's too weak (0,5mm). Better way was put there a toothpick or wire. Then it will be strong. Another bug? is part "87a". How put it in gight place wher You glue ealier all frame parts? Another remart is build frame elements on fuselage, not a seperate element, with is puted later in fuselage.

Fin elements

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Wings - next part, next problems

Fit not bad, but it will be a small gap - I must mask it using color reserve

Barrel covers - again small color mismatch. Wing and fuselage are ok, but this corner doesn't fit

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Wings - continued

Flaps (small remark - in variant 2 with open both big flaps, upper side part is light grey, no dark grey like wing part)

Wings end - bug - mistaek colors of position lights, they are on opposite sides. Small tab on end is unnecessary - to cut out

Wings module

Landing gears bays (without details for the moment)

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I scan all Your fingerprints you're screwed

Wings elements:

Dry fit

Assembled wings element

First I glue to frame down half, next i stick inside elier made bays, and close all gluing upper half to frame. (projects bug - unnecessary triangle join tabs need be cut out)

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Small weekend progress - main wings.

Skeleton construction is unusual strange, and .......... unfunctional. Plate element is weak (only 1mm tight). Oblong element take wing shape, but do nothing else. They don't strenght all structur. The whole element bends under its own weight. They should be a cross element to take strength (or little bit remake center plate and add a piece of wire or wood). To me was too late, frame was dry. So I add a piece of wood "medical" mouth plank in center to strength area where will be glued landing gears - so they don't break (probably). I add some 1mm cardboards reinforcements in center for stability

Landing gears bays

Center cover element

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After tail and pilot canopy, time forfuel tank in hump.

It's a bit shame that the publisher didn't make a few duplicates fuselage parts for the humpbacked and non-humped versions. The structure of the model is such that it would be possible to give such a choice without any problems (we must make full tail elements and canopy).

In the book are only transverse stiffeners (marked), the longitudinal ones I added from myself

All parts I form dry on this hump frame. Next I join them together.

And as one element fit and stick to fuselage

Thanks for the kind words

Canopy - I used ready canopy form GPM to this model. Fit OK

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Further work on the cockpit. Pilot seat inside. I glued to a wall part behind the seat (because drawings are little bit haotical, I forget made this earlier)

Small error Side elements are only black - they haven't grey color/part? It looks like this are only inner sides, without outsides parts. Black isn't outer sidest? I don't see something laike this on plane photos. So I use color reserve, and make grey outer sides.

Not ideal, but may be.

Canopy frame elements don't have inner parts (stay white from inside)

A glance at the fuselage parts with dry fitting of nose segments

Quote from Gerald Friedel

Hello walkiri,

a very clean build! I love this plane small and powerful...

Yeah, but in many places this model is unnecessary too complicated . Probably only pilot seats have more parts than whole first Skyhawk model from FlyModel

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Pilot's stool

Instruments panel

And cockpit details

For next - windshield (I use dedicated canopy from GPM)