Small Scale Military Headquarters

3D printing services are the new Napster and they are under the spotlight. There is a agreement you sign when you join that states that no copyrighted or IP property cannot be uploaded or sold without licensing rights or permission, and when you see a possible violation, you have to report it. Tayl...

Newly released 1/18 scale aircraft ordnance items for sale by Anyuta 3D printed scale models , produced with Frosted Ultra Detail matte translucent plastic material for best results. Everything is designed & 3D printed as accurate as possible to meet collector / modeler's high standards. 1/18 scale...

3D printing services are the new Napster and they are under the spotlight. There is a agreement you sign when you join that states that no copyrighted or IP property cannot be uploaded or sold without licensing rights or permission, and when you see a possible violation, you have to report it. Tayl...

Newly released 1/18 scale aircraft ordnance items for sale by Anyuta 3D printed scale models , produced with Frosted Ultra Detail matte translucent plastic material for best results. Everything is designed & 3D printed as accurate as possible to meet collector / modeler's high standards. Buying mul...

Newly released 1/18 scale aircraft ordnance items for sale by Anyuta 3D printed scale models , produced with Frosted Ultra Detail matte translucent plastic material for best results. Everything is designed & 3D printed as accurate as possible to meet collector / modeler's high standards. Buying mul...

Newly released 1/18 scale aircraft ordnance items for sale by Anyuta 3D printed scale models , produced with Frosted Ultra Detail matte translucent plastic material for best results. Everything is designed & 3D printed as accurate as possible to meet collector / modeler's high standards. Buying mul...

Wow! This stuff looks great! How does shapeways work? Do they actually produce the item and mail it to you or are you buying the CAD file and have to print it on your own 3D printer? @ MUDHEN336, To have an idea on how 3D printed parts are made, how Shapeways laboratory operates and how the final 3...

Newly released 1/18 scale aircraft ordnance items for sale by Anyuta 3D printed scale models , produced with Frosted Ultra Detail matte translucent plastic material for best results. Everything is designed & 3D printed as accurate as possible to meet collector / modeler's high standards. Buying mul...

Newly released 1/18 scale aircraft ordnance items for sale by Anyuta 3D printed scale models , produced with Frosted Ultra Detail matte translucent plastic material for best results. Everything is designed & 3D printed as accurate as possible to meet collector / modeler's high standards. Buying mul...

I've been hoping someone would make extra ordnance for a while. Maybe someday. :hornet: I tried Shapeways, they had once 1/18 Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles, could'nt find them again. Perheaps should you ask board member Nick_Karatzides, he had a link to ANYUTA 3D print creations at Shapeways, but...

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 of light. The front fuselage cover patiently awaited the...

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 boards, one for the bottom part fixed on a retractable brack...

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 building idea requires to setup the 1/18 scale Kolibri mo...

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 had not enough reference of the actual Kolibri’s cooling f...

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 center-section and enclosed by outer skin. The powerplant should...

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 model later ” rule, since I find it more appropriate and ...

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 pages #8 to #14 of the ultra-detailed “ 1/18 Fl-282 V21...

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 structure visible, building and later painting & weathering a...

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 modelers fear of some mighty Holly Inquisitorial Court and r...

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 of paint on the end of the brush. I kept the brush strok...

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 something goes wrong, I found good idea to follow some ...

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 idea of the RLM 63 Light Bluegrey on fuselage fabric cove...

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 dry-brushing and even current post-shading trends dance around th...

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 renewed every 0.72 seconds. During the first airbrushing ...

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 use. My initial thought to buy a brand new one, quickly ...