Hi Guys,
Kevin here from Ultracast. Basilisk, I noticed that you had some complaints regarding Ultracast Spitfire seats. I was wondering which drawings you were using when you stated that the Ultracast seats are "over scale". I assume that the Tamiya seats "scale out" perfectly to the drawings you used?
I checked the drawings which I have available to me now which are General Arrangement - Pilots Seat Drawing #35035, Sheet #4, and the 1/10 scale Paul H. Monforton drawings from his book. Dimensions are as follows:
Width of seat pan - 427 mm = 8.9 mm in 1/48
Ultracast seat pan width - 9.4 mm for a difference of .5 mm
Seat Back Height - 665 mm = 13.9 mm in 1/48
Ultracast Seat Back Height - 14.34 mm for a difference of .44 mm
If I had a copy of the new Tamiya kit, I would include the dimensions of its seat, but I would bet, judging from your photos, that it is substantially different, let me know, I am interested.
When I made the masters for our seats, I did not have access to either set of these drawings, but as you can see the size of our seat is very close, much closer than what the Tamiya appears to be. The 9 holes instead of 8 holes for the flare rack on the early seat is an error on my part and I suppose crucifixion is in order!
Thanks guys for posting photos of the early style seat, its always nice to have more reference photos!
Kevin McLaughlin
Ultracast
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