Global Scale Modeller

Hawkmoon wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 12:03 am Proxxon and Dremel do mini drill stands as do many other suppliers I know its a bit late for you but handy for future builds-

I have the Proxxon one and use it more than I ever thought I would.
Andy

digger303 wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 1:00 am

Hawkmoon wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 12:03 am Proxxon and Dremel do mini drill stands as do many other suppliers I know its a bit late for you but handy for future builds-

I have the Proxxon one and use it more than I ever thought I would.
Andy

Your right they are very handy and I have just seen a TV add saying we now have a local dealer .
I will be looking for a better vice to hold these small awkward shaped parts. If I can do that half the battle will be won. That is where I went wrong trying to hold two loose items in perfect algeinment...it was never going to happen. My 2 mistake was thinking I could.
One of those proxon milling machine look the goods as the vice table can be manipulated in 2 planes.....damn pricey though.

smokeriderdon wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:23 pm

Thought you might like this

Hawkmoon wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 12:03 am Proxxon and Dremel do mini drill stands as do many other suppliers I know its a bit late for you but handy for future builds-



I have the Proxxon one and use it more than I ever thought I would.

Andy

PeterW wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:56 pm

Hawkmoon wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 12:03 am Proxxon and Dremel do mini drill stands as do many other suppliers I know its a bit late for you but handy for future builds-



I have the Proxxon one and use it more than I ever thought I would.

Andy

I love that. Never knew they even existed. Must get one for my Dremel

Peter

digger303 wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2020 1:45 pm A trip to the local hardware store yielded some Balsa sheets which I proceeded to cut to size.


Some 4 inch nails and a hammer produced this untidy construction.

Then I smashed up some yellow ochre oil pastel added some low odour turps and slapped it on. When it dries a little I will brush on
some AK fuel stains to hopefully produce a light teaky colour.

digger303 wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2020 1:45 pm A trip to the local hardware store yielded some Balsa sheets which I proceeded to cut to size.


Some 4 inch nails and a hammer produced this untidy construction.

Then I smashed up some yellow ochre oil pastel added some low odour turps and slapped it on. When it dries a little I will brush on
some AK fuel stains to hopefully produce a light teaky colour.

digger303 wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:45 pm Thanks guys much appreciated.
I'v having some internet connection issues due to thunder storms so can't post my progress, but should be finished tonight.
I'v been told the internet should be fixed Tuesday.

jmurphy18 wrote: Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:48 pm

digger303 wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:45 pm Thanks guys much appreciated.
I'v having some internet connection issues due to thunder storms so can't post my progress, but should be finished tonight.
I'v been told the internet should be fixed Tuesday.

Cool! Is that this Tuesday or the 2nd Tuesday of next week?

Twokidsnosleep wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 4:00 am That’s awesome!!
Can you come over and build me a hot tub pergola...full scale

digger303 wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 12:44 pm

Twokidsnosleep wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 4:00 am That’s awesome!!
Can you come over and build me a hot tub pergola...full scale

Sure can if U don't mind me using CA

jmurphy18 wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 2:29 pm

digger303 wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 12:44 pm

Twokidsnosleep wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 4:00 am That’s awesome!!
Can you come over and build me a hot tub pergola...full scale

Sure can if U don't mind me using CA

ROTFL

I guess you missed my pun at you Digger....... 2nd Tuesday in a week.......
it is one of the jokes we used here when I was working. 2nd Tuesday of next week
I worked with PIA contractors like you are dealing with. u know low bidders

digger303 wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:18 pm

jmurphy18 wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 2:29 pm

digger303 wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 12:44 pm

Sure can if U don't mind me using CA

ROTFL

I guess you missed my pun at you Digger....... 2nd Tuesday in a week.......
it is one of the jokes we used here when I was working. 2nd Tuesday of next week
I worked with PIA contractors like you are dealing with. u know low bidders

Yep sure did and have no idea what a pia contractor is either... sorry.

jmurphy18 wrote: Mon Mar 02, 2020 2:35 pm ding ding ding. Give Neil a cookie. I was a design engineer and all those guys want to do is cheat me out of as much they could.
LOL. We had one guy got a deal on a spool of red wire. Wired the whole building with it. All the wires, no black, no white. Thought we wold not notices as his deal was real good.

digger303 wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2020 1:53 pm A little something about the inventor of this design and his efforts
Factoid
Anton Flettner was a German aviation engineer & inventor who made important contributions on airplane & helicopter design. During the WWI, Anton Flettner developed remote control & pilotless aircraft projects, which culminated in the prototype Siemens Schuckert Werke 1000 kg wire guided air to surface missile of 1918. Following WWI, he directed aeronautical & hydrodynamic research institute in Amsterdam and during the WWII, he headed the Anton Flettner Flugzeugbau GmbH, which specialized in helicopters. It is believed that the firm was founded in Berlin in 1935. By this time, however, Flettner had developed the idea of counter-rotating, intermeshing twin rotors. Many of his advisers thought that the airflow disturbed by the intermeshing blades would make this system less efficient than one using a single rotor; but Flettner believed that any problems thus encountered would be more than offset by the reduced drag resulting from having no external rotor-carrying structure. His pioneer work is often overshadowed by the more publicised activities of his contemporaries Heinrich Karl Johann Focke and Igor Sikorsky; yet Flettner’s helicopter, was far superior to the Henrich Focke’s FW-61 and made a successful free flight several months before Igor Sikorsky’s VS-300 began tethered flights.

Just about done, a coat of matte varnish tomorrow.




In reference to the platform, it was used as a landing site on board ships.
Factoid
The Kriegsmarine HQs was impressed with the Flettner Fl-282 Kolibri and wanted to evaluate it for submarine spotting duties, ordering an initial 15 helicopters, to be followed by 30 production models. Flight testing of the first two prototypes (with enclosed plexiglass panelled cabins and 3-bladed rotors installed, instead of the 2-bladed rotors on production models) was carried out through 1941, including repeated takeoffs and landings from a 13 m² wide platform pad mounted on the German cruiser “Köln”. Intended roles of Flettner Fl-282 Kolibri included ferrying items between Kriegsmarine ships and naval reconnaissance operation from cruisers and other warships. The entire Fl-282 flight test program was not conducted at Rechlin, as was customary for land based aircraft; instead, from August 1942, trials were carried out at E-Stelle See Travemünde. Travemünde was selected because the air traffic safety ship “Greif” was based there and could be used for deck landing trials. The site also simplified helicopter sea trials with the navy, it was also imperative to move the site of the trials from Flettner's facility in Berlin, where there was a greater risk from the growing Allied bombing raids.

This design while solid had its problems and is less speedy than a single rotor design.