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Old 09-30-2009 | 05:42 AM
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Default RE: Skymaster L39 build

The former in the tail that holds the pipe is a touch on the large side so I added four spacers for a snug fit. There are a few scale mods Im going to make starting off with removing the ridiculous depiction of the nav lights, for some reason they've painted the probe mounts red and green. The pitot probes on the L39 are a big feature in my eyes so these will be added and made removable, while I'm at it I'll paint the nav lights which are pre molded into the tip tanks red and green. I may add landing lights but depends on what time I have. Making the probes was a simple matter of tapping some ali out, sticking it in the hole I made in the leading edge, then using some 3mm studding and different lengths of ali tube made a removable probe. Some of these Hungarian AF L39's had a black strip on the leading edge which I'm going to add helping to cover up the probe mods I've made.

Obviously the below picture isn't a H AF L39 but it shows the probes nicely.
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