I will be in the process of finishing a Mig 3 before to long and one of the interestiing features on the plane are the louvers on the cowl. So how do you guys duplicate/ make these items?

What I would do? Subscribe to a magazine called "Fine Scale Modeler" and pose you question there. Some of these static plastic scale modelers are amazing. If you are talking about the hood on a 1932 Ford High Boy hot rod there is a tool. A-bit out of your scale though. Pretty model, unusual topic.


Bill

monocoupe over on rcsb moulds some scoops etc that would be of help to you. technique anyway. try his savoi marchetti .79 build thread. actually i think he has a thread here on the same plane, just less detail.

A guy in our club wanted to make evenly spaced louvers for a model. He found that the air vents on the club's porta potty were the exact size that he needed.

He took one home, and vacu-formed it.

Louvers are small and wouldn't add much weight if done right. I would carve/whittle/make one louver, cover it with some oil so it won't stick to anything, then press it into some heat-hardening sculpting clay from a craft store. Carefully remove the carved louver, put the clay in the oven, bake to harden. Then using the sculpting clay mold you just made, press some sculpting clay into the mold and make as many louvers as you need and bake them in the oven to harden them.

Then there is always stamping them in aluminum with a steel die for the purists. But is you intend to do that you already know what you are doing and have a lathe and mill.

Planeman