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The wheels are Dubro 4 1/2" lite treaded and the hinges are a modified version of Robart's (350) large door hinges. I tried using the flat nylon hinges but could never get the doors to work properly without a large gap between the door and wing. Hinging on a curved surface is a pain!
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CrCab Hi again well I have had a chance to go over your pic's, and I have acoupla of questions why the change of hart on the nylon bushing??, and the strap around the strut I assume is fixed. also it looks like you went with the scale shape of the barn doors. well I have two days to the out a coupla of systems so will be plenty busy.
Thanks for the additional pic's
Bob T
PS Did you add the lighting holes in the ply for the tail wheel?.
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The nylon tube was just a temporary fix until I worked all the bugs out. A friend of mine is silver soldering a brass tube onto a brass plate to mount on the back of the door. I'll post pics when possible. The strap is bolted on with a 2-56 x 1/2" bolt going through the front tabs, it has a 1/8" tube cut 3/16" long placed between the two tabs. This keeps the tabs separated allowing room to mount the ball links on each side.
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Here's a shot of the TF cockpit kit that is to get more add ons. I added a few small plastic strips and tubes to the lower dash panel, but I'm not sure the panel is really accurate. It should be alright when it's all done though. I'll have to spend some time trying to get the cockpit done well with the opening canopy and all.
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Wulf190
Dave B posted a pic of the pnl in one of the threads that might give you some help, but if you are not going actual scale, it looks good and no one but a real strict scale dude will ever notice.
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I've only just begun on the cockpit and can see I'll be spending a good amount of time in there now that I'm getting some other reference pics. Lots of switches and tubes and stuff to be added. I did the bezel rivets this morning around the instruments. Next will come the dash panel switches. I'll do those with short styrene glued to the panel probably.
Wulf we were discussing that plane a few weeks back... This is a dash from a Good-Year plane 1D the armament panel is missing from the top of the dash, and 1 gauge, is missing,, That cockpits dash is correct for the -1Ds,,, But it would be wrong for a scale job in a corsair F4U-1A with a bar canopy. That style (bars)canopy was used on the 1Ds wiith a LOWER than Buno 57583.AFTER that #, the bars were eliminated from the canopies
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That pic is fantastic, thanks! I was watching the thread quietly when you guys were talking about it. Very interesting and informing. I was looking for something just like this picture. It looks like I've got a good start on the dash panel after today. I'll have to cut out the cheesy TF gun sight square and build a real one. I've got a few deviations on the dash, but not bad. I can do a much better job on all that piping underneath now. I'm now in need of the side panel shots too I guess as those are next tomorrow. Did you guys post any on the other thread?
I sure do like adding in all the stuff to the junky cockpit kits. It seems like I've always got some kind of little plastic item around the house that I'm stealing from the junk drawer to liberate into a new cockpit piece like an air vent or something.
I`ll set you up tommorow.Don`t be shy, start CHIRPING if you need something,..I Don`t want to pollute this thread with non building pics... How was the testing RT??
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I was looking for something just like this picture. It looks like I've got a good start on the dash panel after today. I'll have to cut out the cheesy TF gun sight square and build a real one. I've got a few deviations on the dash, but not bad. I can do a much better job on all that piping underneath now. I'm now in need of the side panel shots too I guess as those are next tomorrow. Did you guys post any on the other thread?