Scratchbuilt 1/32 Kellet Autogiro

By Jim Merrigan

Construction

The model is really a bash of three 1/32nd scale models. The fuselage is basically the fuselage of a 1/32nd scale Japanese Willow trainer, a new turtleback was added aft of the rear cockpit, and a rounded fairing was added to the end of the fuselage. All of the tail surfaces both horizontal and vertical were fashioned from the lower wing of a Hasegawa F4-B. The landing gear strutting was fabricated from the N struts of both the willow and the F4-B. The rotor pylon is carved balsa, the rotor was modified from Monogram's Blue Thunder.

© James Merrigan 2007

This article was published on Friday, September 27 2013; Last modified on Saturday, May 14 2016

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