Contrail/Sanger Bombay,Harrow,Hendon and Overstrand

[doglove2005]

Hi, All

Now I am planning to build some 1:72 VAC kits.
Sanger Bristol Bombay, Contrail Hadley Page Harrow and Fairly Hendon (obtained) and Boulton Paul Side/Overstrand (searching). Sanger's Bombay includes some metal parts, but no good mail wheels. Contrails are without small parts. Today I ask you to advice with 2 things.

Q1, how to get some small parts as engine (in case of air cooling, front side), exhaust, mail and tail wheels, AND PROP.
I may be able to (reproduces by RTV and resin, then) convert some part from other kits. Front side of Pegasus from Walrus/Hampden to Harrow/Overstrand.
(Of course I also able to try
"E032 1/72 BRISTOL PEGASUS ENGINE & EXHAUST RING",
"E035 1/72 BRISTOL PERSEUS ENGINE FRONT" and/or
"E082 1/72 BRISTOL PEGASUS ENGINE AND COWLING")
21mm dia. main wheels from Heyford to Hendon.
18mm dia. main wheels from Whitley/Wellington to Harrow/Bombay.(There are no large wheels in the list of Aeroclub)
But I still have some difficulty. In my experience, reproduce tail wheel and prop with resin is very difficult. So I want to obtain metal parts, hopefully from Aeroclub. I asked the company, but they replied that they do not know enough real aircraft, and I have to state products numbers.
Q1-A
Please advice me suitable tail wheels and props from Aeroclub parts for Harrow, Hendon and Side/Overstrand.
Are both or one of them tail wheel of
"V004 1/72 PACK-TAILWHEELS,DF LOOP,CONTROL COLUMNS, OIL COOLER ETC."
or
"V084 1/72 TAILWHEELS 2 EACH x 3 TYPES" will fit such heavy bombers?

Q1-B
And what PROPs will fit for Harrow, Hendon and Side/Overstrand?

Q1-C
I also ask you to help exhaust type of Hendon's Kestrel.
Was it curved 3 outlets for each side (from 2 cylinders to in 1 pipe type)? If it was, I can convert them from Heyford.
Or round type?
There are "V009 1/72 KESTREL"ELEPHANT EAR" EXHAUSTS - TWO PAIRS" in the list.
Is it fit to Hendon?
Is it same thing to;
"Ram's head exhaust" of Audax in p.191, "Hart Family", Mushroom books, and/or
"kidney exhaust" of Osprey in p.195, "British Piston Engines and their Aircraft"?
Which shall I use for Hendon?



Q2.
I am reading old books an "RAF in Camera" "Manston in old photos" etc and also search web, but I have not found any photos and/or drawings of cockpit of those 4 aircraft above. If you know any information, please let me know the titles (and page) of books or URLs.

Thanks, and sorry long question

[doglove2005]

Please advice me about prop of real aircraft at least. As makes, DIA. and so on.

[Airframes]

Seems there are few, if any, people here with the information you rerquire. I can only suggest a search of, say, the Hannant's web-site to see if they have resin or white metal parts available from the various manufacturers . Whilst I've seen the basic data for these aircraft in various reference books, I haven't seen any technical information regarding prop diamters and so on. Perhaps a search for British radial engines of the period might help? There were certainly at least two books published on the subject.

[doglove2005]

Thank you, Airframes.
In Hannant's, I could find only Prop of Bombay.
With Basic data. There are no data in:
British Aircraft of Wold War II by Monday
British Piston Aero Engines and Their Aircraft by Lumsden
The Royal Air Force , An Encyclopedia of the inter war years Vol.II by Philpott

Searching inter war aircraft id is difficult!
I am still waiting any help. Thank you.

[Airframes]

The only other course I can suggest is to contact the RAF Museum, Hendon, and ask if they have any archive information on the aircraft, engines and any technical data. They do have an on-line service for some requests, but I don't know if they will definitely have what you are looking for. However, if you were able to get a good photo of, say, an engine type, and details of it's dimensions, that would be a good start point for scaling other items, such as the props etc.

[doglove2005]

Airframes, Thank you again.