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timc

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    York, PA
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    B-17's, P-51's, P-47's and A6M's.

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  1. Come join us for our annual Penncon IPMS Model Show and Contest. Unlike most IPMS shows, we use open judging where a model is graded against a set of standards rather than against other models. Gold, Silver, and Bronze are the available awards as well as theme-based awards. There are also "best-ofs" and "people's choice" awards as well. The only downside this year is that the cafe in the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center will not be open. There are however, several decent restaurants in town within a couple miles of the venue. Make it if you can!
  2. After looking through my references, I found this very topic and indeed, all the King's Mustangs (Mk's I-III [no mention of the IV]) had wheel wells in aluminum, aluminized lacquer or dopes (O'Leary, p. 46). Well, you're entirely in the wrong tree on that. I think a little aircraft manufacturing lesson is what's needed here. The process of aircraft airframe manufacturing goes something like this: raw aluminum (alclad type O - soft aluminum), is created into the various shapes needed for stringers, formers, bulkheads, etc. After forming, these parts are heat treated to
  3. First - Do you have a link? There's too much garbage to sift through going in unaided. Second - Does this topic/thread provide substantive proof (documents/photographs) to support that conclusion? If not, I wouldn't put any stock into that statement whatsoever.
  4. This is interesting. Where did you find that piece of information?
  5. This is relatively accurate for the aircraft you've depicted. Later blocks (20, 25) had more standardized yellow zinc throughout the wheel wells. Having said that, there's absolutely no evidence that the earlier ones weren't painted entirely and/or a hodgepodge of painted/unpainted but the likelyhood of having them fully painted was far lower than not. I guess the paint all depended upon the painter's mood at that time of day during the production process.
  6. 1/32 Hasegawa Bf109K-4 Tweak List
  7. The only medium that you can accurately scale from as far as blueprints are concerned, is vellum (if I'm remembering the medium correctly...it's the brown, translucent paper (it's not really paper) that engineering drawings are done on). We used vellum to loft parts for prototype designs and parts in the aircraft plant I worked in. Plain paper suffers from shrinkage, expansion with humidity, etc. and can't be relied up for measurements. If the factory blueprints are US Government property, why then can I access them on AirCorps Library website? If the USG owns them I should be a
  8. Yes but plywood was covered with black anti-skid paint or rubber mat (earlier aircraft) to include the camera bay door.
  9. Yes, the B-17 has overlapping panel joints in most places. However, to render that effect in 1/48 scale, and at a scale thickness, you would be at 0.0008" (8/10,000 of an inch). That's probably so small that most of us couldn't even feel it with our fingers. Just as a point of reference, a piece of regular 25 lb. copy paper is 0.003" (3/1000 of an inch). Even with an out of scale effort, it would be extremely hard to render the overlapping joints and would no doubt raise the cost of the tooling so that the kit would be much more expensive than it already is; and a few swipes with some roug
  10. timc

    P-51D Cockpit Color

    Hold one.... On P-51D production: The framing (part H40) for the radio and battery (prior to it being relocated to the firewall area) was painted flat black. Everything above a certain waterline (I've forgotten what that waterline is), was painted flat black. That's why that portion of the armor plating behind the seat is painted black while the remainder is interior green. The floor that the auxiliary fuel tank sits on is a resin board with balsa wood supports on the sides between the fuselage formers and the tank. Whether that resin board was painted or not is unknown so if
  11. Not quite true... HK released a 1/32 late B-17G, then a 1/32 B-17E/F and then re-released the late B-17G with different markings. You'd never be able to see overlapping panels in 1/48 unless it was so out of scale that would make it look like a shingled roof. A prototypical 0.040" thick skin overlap will be 0.00083" (that's 83/10,000 of an inch) in 1/48 scale...you'd be hard pressed to even feel that with your fingertip. From the CAD images I've seen, the panel lines will be recessed with recessed rivets. I gave the CAD images a cursory look and they did address the "issue" at
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  13. In close proximity to the Gettysburg National Military Park
  14. As I remember, the kit instructions give two options for dealing with turret removal; one is to leave the turret rings and just cap them with flat plastic pieces and two; remove the turret rings and install shaped circular discs over the holes left by the turret ring removal. Neither of these is a good option to a passable Silverplate B-29.
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