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04-19-2009, 12:56 AM
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| Hi Matt308, There are LOTS of sources for little tiny tubes and such. I tend to have a lot of little brass, steel, and aluminum tubing around because I very often try to make miniature stuff. I get them from the local hardware store. I also tend to accumulate Plastruct or Evergreen styrene tubes, rods and such for gun barrels for planes, ships and such. In fact, I would suggest you get a piece of very thin styrene rod for replacement gun barrels for the Hellcat rather than try to make the parts out of paper clips because it is much easier to file flat after you cut it. This is the same stuff I was planning to use for pushrods for the engine with slightly larger diameter pieces for the rocker covers. Instead of cardboard for the seats, I would have used styrene sheet just because I already had some from previous projects. McDonalds salads also have supplied some clear plastic that I have used for the reflector on model aircraft gunsights. The darn piece for the relector in 1/72 is so small that it is impossible to find if you should drop it though. You definitely need tweezers to put the part in place. As for tubing, the refills out of dead pens are about the right size as are the Johnson & Johnson swabs. You might need to thin them out from the inside with an Exacto knife though. For really LITTLE tubing, you can pull out the parts from dead mechanical pencils though I haven't found a good application for tubing THAT small yet. - Ivan. |
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04-19-2009, 01:38 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Queensland, Australia
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 | Great work Matt!
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04-19-2009, 05:16 AM
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| Fine job Matt! Good model is comeing up!
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04-19-2009, 05:47 AM
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| With Marek and Jason here. 
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04-19-2009, 01:06 PM
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| aka Dickcheese  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Thanks, guys. And good ideas on the tubing, but 1/72nd scale 3" dials make for about 1/24"-1/32"ID tubing. That is REALLY small. The dead mechanical pencil is a thought, though. I'll have to scrounge around. Paperclips work just fine and are easy to file flat. Already have done it in fact. And the reflector sight I made from a clear 2 liter bottle cut to size. And yes it is REAL small.
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04-19-2009, 01:08 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Okay time for some masking.
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04-19-2009, 01:13 PM
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| very nice work Matt, well done
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04-19-2009, 01:15 PM
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| Good progres again! keep working!
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04-19-2009, 01:17 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Alright, time to work some on the drop tank. The F6F had a drop tank supported in the rear by a pylon attached to the fuselage. To prevent a huge moment arm causing stress on the pylon two straps were used at the midpoint of the tank for structural integrity. This requires stripping some small wire and rolling it perfectly flat. To do this, I put my "bent" wire on the flat anvil of my vice. Using another flat surface (marble counter top samples), I rub them together. This will take any bent wire and make it perfectly straight. Not a little bit straight. Perfectly straight. These wires will serve as my straps. Next I use a center punch of varying diameter to roll my straight wires to be slight under diameter where they will attach to the drop tank.
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04-19-2009, 01:21 PM
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| loooking goood! 
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04-19-2009, 01:24 PM
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| Now to make grooves in the drop tank to allow the wire to fit almost flush. Using my razor saw, with multiple blades attached to get the width to match the wire diameter, I carefully cut the grooves, but only on the lower half of the tank surface. Next I attached with wires with stoopid glue and sanded the tank to remove residue and rough edges. Using my pin vise, I then drilled 4 holes in the lower fuselage to allow for a clean interface of the wire "straps". And I glued her on. Looks okay. In a larger scale I would have done the fuel and return lines, but was not that ambitious in 1/72nd.
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04-19-2009, 01:27 PM
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| I agree, nice work Matt.
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04-19-2009, 01:42 PM
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| With Terry here.
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04-19-2009, 03:05 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Okay slopped some paint on her. Model Masters Dark Sea Blue. The upper an lower ailerons are not molded correctly and don't match up. But the dark color is forgiving.
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04-19-2009, 03:09 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| The windscreen, canopy and propeller as just sitting on the model for grins. I'll glue them on last. I forgot to mention that I cut off the elevators and respositioned them at a down angle. I also put the vertical trim tab a few degrees to the port. I found a pic of 32 prepping for a launch and noticed that in the pic the trim tab was cranked to the port quite a bit. Must be to help counteract that massive 2000hp engine torque on takeoff.
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