Ed DeVivo Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Any articles or videos on these methods? What do you guys use to simulate the hoses and such.. - Ed Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChippyWho Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Forgive me, Sir: "Landing Gear Hoses"? Does this mean the hydraulic lines and connectors on the gear legs themselves or the spaghetti explosion in the gear bays of (modern) aircraft, and so-on? If so, it really depends on period and scale. My own preference is for lead detailing wire (0.2, 0.3 and 0.5mm for 1/72 to 1/48 scale) -this is very flexible, easy to attach with a tiny blob of superglue, and can be left mostly unpainted. Connectors, junctions, etc can be fashioned from short lengths of brass tube or plastic rod. This is great for the actual gear legs too. All the above are in this much 'improved'(?) Revell 1/48 EF2000 nose gear bay: It looked like this out of the box: Where you need to represent the ribbed type of hose, I recommend annealed wire-wound guitar strings. Unfortunately (unless you have a very small guitar!) these are probably too big for anything under 1/48 -even then, only the 3rd string is likely to be useful and if you anneal it too much you will cremate the thin string inside the wire so it snaps when you try to bend it! Replicating the sexy Goodrich Aeroquip-style braided stuff in smaller scales is still a mystery to me; model car detailing materials are way too big and I think there's a gap in the market here! HTH. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ed DeVivo Posted November 20, 2014 Author Share Posted November 20, 2014 Hydraulic lines yes!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dahut Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Bits of wire and solder Strip the insulation from any wiring you find to get different sizes. Solder is nice, too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TexasBlues Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 telephone wire works well for these lines/hoses too... the small e string from an electric guitar... solder (as stated)... and carbon steel welding wire works well too... a 2lb roll will last longer than a lifetime not gear, but heres the idea 1:32 F4U engine Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bonehammer73 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 I made a kinda tutorial in this here thread Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LanceB Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Just my opinion and YMMV etc., but I never use superglue on lead or solder. Over time the acid in the superglue causes a reaction, I ended up with what looked like white fungus as the lead or solder crystallized, and then it all fell off. Granted, it took over a year to start crystallizing/corroding, but once it started there was no undoing it. I have switched to two-part epoxy, and while it takes longer to set than superglue, it doesn't eat lead or solder. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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