****DONE: 1/72 Flettner Fl-282 B-0 Kriegsmarine ship "Drache" - MTO Group Build

[vikingBerserker]

FINALLY got time to work on this a little more.

Spent several days removing flash from the fuselage sides and painted the interior a silver dope and sealed it with a flat clear coat. Also painted the rotor head the base color of Lt Grey. Lost an exhaust pipe to the carpet gods and had to fashion a new one from wire and painted rust.

Did a dry run fitting the fuselages together with the engine gear boxes. Ended up having to file several more mm's off of the sides to get it to fit properly.

 

[Wurger]

Keep working on.

 

[ozhawk40]

Looks good VB- "several days removing flash" hmmmm. Thats sounds like trouble in such a small beastie!

Cheers

Peter

 

[Airframes]

Looking good VB. Must be darned small too - not something my knackered hands would have fun with!!

 

[vikingBerserker]

Finally getting back into the grove.

Attached the engine into the fuselage halves and glued them together. Unfortunately I discovered that the panel lines do not match (the red lines), in fact are off approx 1mm all around. So started to sand/file away.

2nd picture is after puttying and the initial coat of primer. More puttying and sanding required.

 

[B-17engineer]

Loooookin great VB!

 

[ozhawk40]

Great to see some progress there VB. I can't wait to see some paint on the outside of this little chopper, it's a very interesting build. Keep going! 8)

Cheers

Peter

 

[Heinz]

Great stuff VB!

 

[muller]

Looking good VB!

 

[rochie]

nice progress VB

 

[Wayne Little]

Doin' great VB!

 

[Wurger]

With all here.

 

[Airframes]

Holy Moly that's tiny! Great work so far.

 

[parsifal]

VB, ths is a very interesting build. Evreything looks to be profgressing okay so far.....

 

[Vic Balshaw]

I watch with interest, lovely work VB

 

[vikingBerserker]

Ok, after reading a number of posts about using CA glue to build, gave it a whirl. I think from now on it will be my preference. Used it to attach the tail planes and other parts. I think I've had to sand/file so much I'm beginning to run out of plastic. Tomorrow is another coat of primer then the main coat.

 

[B-17engineer]

Wonderful!

 

[ozhawk40]

Great progress VB.

Cheers

Peter

 

[Heinz]

Agree with the above!

 

[Wayne Little]

delicate little beastie, Looks great mate!