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Old 11-25-2013, 06:37 PM
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mattnew
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This post here is a bit of "thinking out loud"...

I've been trying to figure out how to handle the .50 caliber machine guns on bomber… 1/16 scale is a bit difficult as you don't see a lot of kits for browning 50 calibers in 1/16 and similarly not a lot of other model airplane companies are doing 1/16 scale bombers.

Tamiya has 1/16 scale tanks though, and the sherman's had browning 50 calibers on them, turns out you can get parts for Tamiya's sherman tank line. The barrels of the tank 50 calibers are different, but I'm looking at experimenting using the body of the gun with either a brass barrel or possibly stirene ( sp? )… I'm not loving the brass as its a bit hard to get the drill bit to center properly for drilling… the pictures following are first attempts where I'm really just messing around with practice pieces...


by no means the final product… just trying to think and figure out how to make this work.
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