RE: Westbury Hunter Build Thread
Have been working some scale details. I have added the distinctive gun fairing cut-outs in the lower fuselage. I made my own fiberglass tubes of the correct diameter, molded around some brass tubes. After cutting them to approximate shape and closing off the back end with a piece of polyply, I cut the openings in the fuselage and glassed them in. Once dry, attacked them with Permagrit and fairly easily ended up with a very neat set of gun barrel openings. I also added the gun camera opening on top of the fuselage using the same method.
I then turned to the cockpit tub. After deciding to go with a partial depth tub, I scratched my head and sketched out a few ideas. Mostly made from 1/16th ply and 1½” deep I should be able to dress this up reasonably well. The width is 3” and I was hoping to use one of the Blue-box pilot figures. Does anyone have an ‘across the shoulders’ measurement for one of the figures. I know they are 1/6th scale and the Hunter is 1/7th, but I don’t know how much I’d have to modify one to fit.
I’ve carved out a plug for one of the fuel tanks. This will sit in the lower fuselage and could hold up to about 95oz of fuel. I plan to wrap in parcel tape and mold a Kevlar tank from it. There is room to fit two of these tanks plus a cylindrical tank for a total of about 140oz maximum. I’ve yet to work out the c.g. impacts of this much fuel so that may limit the total capacity.
Paul