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I am trying to approximate the dimensions in 1.32 of the undercarige lever. I have seen the enginering schetch elsewhere on BM and while it is of some help there are no dimensions. Does anyone have any idea as to what would be the measuments. It does not have to be exact, just look right in 1/32.

Hello again all, After the cursed Hurricane I've decided to put 1:72 aside for a bit and move up a scale to 1:48 to see what all the fuss is about. I'm staying with British aircraft and moving onto the Hurricane's more glamorous stablemate the Spitfire Mk1. I've already got a mk1 spitfire in 1:72 in my collection (was my 2nd ever model since returning to the hobby) and it's decidedly crude. I'll be hoping to do better by this lovely aircraft this time around. I'm going to be building up the new tooling Airfix kit released last year for the 75 year BoB anniversary which seems to be generally well received amongst the reviewing community. Though given my experiences with the Hurricane I'm going to be extra careful with the build this time. My initial impressions are that the kit is very nicely detailed out of the box and just so much bigger. That being said I'm going to push myself to improve the detail wherever I can to make use of these expensive tools I've accumulated . Hopefully with larger bits there should be a fair amount of scope for this. I'll be sticking to the basic kit supplied BoB scheme for this one to just focus on producing a realistically painted and weathered bird building on the techniques I pioneered on the Hurricane. With the larger scale It'll be interesting to see how things pan out. Anyway I've started haphazardly on the cockpit bits. I decided the kit supplied throttle quadrant peice was a bit basic and missing a mixture lever so decided to spruce it up a bit. I cut off the thick plastic levers and built new ones from 30gauge copper wire flattened by laying it on my steel rule and rolling my knife handle over it repeatedly. I built the throttle lever handle from a short length of thin pastic rod, used a 0.5mm punched disc of 0.5mm styrene for the mixture handle and the prop pitch handle was formed from a blob of 2 part epoxy. I'm quite proud of the finished result. Should be fun to paint I then decided to tackle the control lollipop. For some reason Airfix have placed the trigger on the base of the loop whereas I believe it should be on the upper left side.The loop was a tad thick as well. I started by cutting the loop off and then forming a new one with soft 0.015" lead wire using the airfix one as a rough guide to size. I then cut a small sliver of plastic rod, flattened the mounting point with my tweezer tip and glued the disc on to form the body of the trigger. I added a brake lever out of lead wire with one side squashed flat and curved a bit. The firing button was formed from a 0.5mm punched disc of 0.13mm plastic sheet to create a bit of raised detail. Cut off bit of the kit part next to it for comparison. Just got be real careful not to squash the soft wire loop with my fat fingers when assembling it to the column. I'm quite enjoying this so far

Hope someone can help me with this query. Just picked up the Airfix 1/72 Spitfire 1/11A kit with the intention of completing the early Mk 1 model (with the black and white under surfaces). Its not clear to me what colour I should paint the inside of the landing gear bays - would it be just white and black to match the under surfaces? Many thanks