Flettner Fl 282

Garry Preston Very nice!

Luc B

Francisco Colaço Thanks to all.

Mike Grant Brilliant!

Carsten Gurk Very nice build!

Chris Greathouse Excellent build! Although I'd hate to pilot that thing having no cabin...

Neuling Looks good. Off the beaten track!

Jens I really like it

Gustavo Antonelli Dear mates, having received a gold diploma in the "II exposición y concurso de modelismo – RDM La Plata" (II exposición y concurso de modelismo – RDM La Plata (6. i 7. Październik, La Plata AR) has motivated me to share some pictures of the development of this little bird, more than 10 years ago.
It is made from the scratch, using plastic parts of the spare box, plasticard, stretched plastic sprues, wood, cardboard, paper, photoetched cuts, metal wire, etc. from blueprints obtained from publications.
It was published in the "modelismolatino.net" forum, but I am afraid that this site no longer exists.

Thomas Bischoff Congratulations! and well deserved

Gustavo Antonelli Thank you Thomas!

Olivier Hello,
An English, German, French or Spanish version would help a lot of people.

Kamil Feliks Sztarbala I know, but there ale a lot of websites in english language. Poland is a big market for scale model and my website is currently the largest modelling review website here, providing information that is easily accessible especially to many Polish modellers for whom the language barrier is still a problem. It's easier for me to describe all this stuff in my own language as well. On the other hand - pics are worth more than bulk of words, so my reviews could be helpful regardles of language barrier

Olivier I did not mean it should not be in Polish. I would love to benefit from your expertise. But learning Polish could prove too much for me.

Patrick Hagelstein I have to go with Kamil on this. I mainly look at reviews for sprue pictures or even detailed pictures of some parts. Unless it's a build review I'm good enough with the pictures to make a descission to want/buy a kit or not. If Polish is the way to get the Polish community on board, let's please do so. If the language barrier diminishes over time, we can switch to English.

Olivier Then, Patrick, you consider that his writing have no interest for you, just the photographs ?
Well, I like to know what people have to say, not just look at photographs of plastic parts.

Patrick Hagelstein Well Olly, not that I'm not interested in what a reviewer has to say but more that when a review is in a foreign language but the pictures are detailed, I can live with the review not being in an understandable language. It depends from review to review. For now, KFS reviews are manageable for me and if a large part of the community can read them and get the information needed, I'm good with it. But as stated in my last line, it would be nice to have an English version over time.

Patrick Hagelstein I hope this clarifies my point of view.

Wim van der Luijt chrome will translate any website, not perfect but good enough to see if you will be buying a piece of **** or a gem......

Kamil Feliks Sztarbala Gentlemen, first of all thank you for your comments. I'm glad, that even if you are not able understand description for pictures, you are finding them a bit useful to judge quality of described items. And I know that even with help of translator you will be not able understand my reviews at all, since I'm write quite far from 'simple polish'. Anyway, I decided to make my website especially for polish audience because of a few reasons. As I've said - even if english is a new lingua latina nowadays, it is still a problem to understand articles and reviews in english language for many modellers here, in Poland (and in many non-english countries as well, to be honest). So even if there are a bulk of international review vortals, there were still a gap to fill. That was my policy, since Poland is one of the biggest market for scale models in europe. Another very important factor is that I'm not enough familiar with english (which is visible at this message). It is a bit difficult to write what I want to say in English. And I don't want to write my rewiews with some ridiculous quasi-english (which also quite popular). Shortly - it will be to much time consuming and too laborious to write english descriptions. And what should be noticed - this is not my main work - I'm not retired plastic-enthusiast. Even if I'm a full time modeller, all these reviews and other articles are just a way for some procrastination :> Same for me, and my team as well.
Best regards
~kamil

Patrick Hagelstein Thank you for explaining Kamil.

Mathew Nate Świetna recenzja. Cheers!

Thomas Mayer Also, ich hätte da noch einen!

Holger Kranich Dann solltest Du den vllt. mal dem Herren Meyerhoff anbieten?

Thomas Mayer Wusste gar nicht dass der einen sucht...

Holger Kranich Wenn Huma draufsteht, sucht er das.

gorbygould Amazing model Thomas, beautifully built and painted! Sounds like it was a real test of your patience to build, but it looks like it was worth the effort.

Thomas Mayer Thank you!

Well, cleaning the 3D printed parts was the most work here. To be followed by airbrushing and detail painting. Assembly was a breeze, taking care not to break some of the fine details Nick has added to the design. In the end this is a rather large model, I am glad I had the chance to build it!

Stefan Schacht I am watching this!!

Łukasz Gliński Me too

Ekki I'm also in.

Edward May I acquired one of these several years back as a freebee and wound up trading it off. Little did I know that this kit is nearly as rare as hens teeth and didn't see it again for nearly fifteen years! Naturally I snatched it up upon seeing it available from a real gentleman, the owner and operator of RarePlane Detective!

Christian Meyerhoff This was clever !

Edward May It would have been more clever if I kept the first one! I probably would have had I known that Huma's molds for the Fl 282 B-0 & B-2 were damaged and so no more are being produced in 1:72! At least RS Models makes one now though.

Christian Meyerhoff Well, I have both in my stash and the RS model is the better one for sure. On the other hand the Huma kit is a collectors item and very hard to get because of the lost moulds. I think that I will build the RS one and leave the Huma untouched.

Helerson Maciel

Frank Krause Interesting machine, Torben! Was it a paper-project or did it exist?
@Es-haq: That thing has 2 main rotors. So it doesn't need a tail-rotor.

Frank Krause Ok, got it - a real thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flettner_Fl_282

Es-haq Khosravi I see, n their spin was opposit.

Torben H. It did really exist. Trials were made to use them as reconnaissance helicopters aboart ships.
About twenty of them were finished at the end of the war.
Frank is right. Because of the counter-rotating rotors no torque on the nacelle occurred.

Tim Vereecke nice work Torben!

Michel Huijghe It's small.

Luc B

Christian Mundt Manchmal macht sich Aufräumen doch bezahlt

scale-rotors.com

Christian Lehmann Ja der Dirk mal wieder
Wie immer ein außergewöhnliches Vorbild. Toll gemacht.

Dirk Heyer Danke Christian!
Grüßle
Dirk

Philip De Keyser Great job Dirk, nice and cleen build, love it,
greetz Phil

Bill Gilman Dirk does it again! Nice job!

Mike Kryza Spitzenmäßig - Da kommt direkt ein Anflug von Neid auf das handwerkliche Können..