The pitot tube was crafted from brass stock, and tapered to a point in the
front. I drilled a hole in the front, then inserted two sections of
telescoping stainless steel tubing. Turned out A-OK!
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| I drilled in two holes in the nose, then inserted aluminum tubing for the two
.050" cal. machine guns.
I used railroad train lights for the wing
landing lights.
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| Using this
photo of the main gears (above to the
right), I started building the two gears using the kit parts (above
center). This did not work out very well. I scraped them and
re-built everything out of aluminum and brass stock. A friend by
the name of Jack Calloway sent me several sizes of "O" rings.
I used one size for the main gear tires, and a different size for the
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I hand crafted all the gear doors using different thickness' of flat styrene
stock. When finished, they looked like the real doors! "WHAT DO
YOU THINK ?"
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I hand crafted the dive flap as well! This flap is on the bottom of the
fuselage!
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The nose gear is no good, so it's
scratch building all the way. I used aluminum tubing, and some brass as
well. Time consuming. but the end result is well worth the time spent on
the gear.
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I made some plaster of paris molds for the windscreen and new canopy. The end
results are quite nice. They looked like the real thing! I also
crafted the support arms for the canopy, it its' open position. (look as the two
photos side by side).
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Stay tuned to ARC for part 3 of
this article
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