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ORIGINAL: lov2flyrc
Just molded you up a set, let me know how they work out.
Todd,
i appreciate you sending them out so quickly but unfortunately they won't work on the Flash. by the time you trim enough of the tip tank off that they match in diameter they would make the tank look odd with such a blunt short tip, it would look like a baby bottle nipple.
What I did on mine was cut off the tip tank at the point where the diameter matched the landing lights I wanted to use (they were some of the pre-made Flugmodelbaugh units that Todd sells - 40mm in diameter, I think...) Then I used that tip piece as a mold to pull my own lenses. I don't have a vacuum forming machine of my own, so I used the "push the mold on the end of a stick through the hot plexiglass sitting on a board with a hole in it" method of molding them. They came out great as far as shape was concerned, but they got a bit thin and were flimsy, so I took two of them and laminated them together with thinnked West System epoxy between them (its very clear) and that worked well.
I imagine that Todd could pull a good set of lenses if someone sent him a tip-tank end to use as a mold...
Bob