Mick_Gannon

Where can you buy the camera nose conversion set from please?

I like the work to date, very neat and tidy, note that you must fill the rivets on the flying surface's from Hasegawa, they don't exsist, all rivets were filled with putty and smoothed over. The monogram kit when it was release was considered the best in 1/48, far better than the original Revell and ESCI kits which had their issues. Of note when I built the flying canary by monogram I had to add a strip of plastic at the base of the tail section to widen the cross section at the joint to the main fuselage, it then required less filler to make a good joint. I must admit having rescribed a Revell SR71 I admire your determination to complete the job. As you say all of us have Hasegawa and Kinetic starfighters, but even those have faults and at a cost of twice the price.

Thank you for the link.

Are there any pictures of civilian paint schemes for this rota auto giro. Mick

With regard to AK paints, when I contacted AK with regards to the base black colour, I was advised to use the AK base black for the extreme metal range not any black, the black you used does not look as smooth as the You Tube vid by Flory models when showing the use of extreme metal range. What tools did you use to reapply the panel lines and rivets please.

So, in reply the answer should have said, no we are not including the gun pod. As both kits released are the Alison engined aircraft, will you be doing the Rolls Royce engined earlier aircraft F82B as the whole nose shape is different.

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The answer is use a pin vise not a powered drill and mark the centre with a dimple as said.

Sword do the NF14 in 1/48 scale.

Yes I found the kit. However it has many failings so the choice's are A, mate the MC nose to the Modlvist kit with extra parts from P51 H, B, use parts from the Modelvist P51H and P82 kit's kit to enhance the MC kit(this would mean no cutting up of any of the kit parts just swapping), or C, wait for the correct version to be released, at present I favour the B option.

I found an old F82B modelcraft kit in my collection the nose on that nearly is the same as the New kit for size, so now have 2 options.

Thank you everyone for all the photo's thoughts and input, think I know where I am going now, so off to cast the nose sections off a P51H. Regards

Well that buggers up a lot, the P51H and P82 kits are not the same at all from the same maker same scale, but it does show that the previous comment that the nose was made longer to put the CG in the correct position has a valid point.

My thinking is this, A, cast the P51H nose just past the start of the cockpit, B, calculate the length of the nose from cockpit to back of spinner, of note I measured the F82 kit fuselage and spinner and got a length of 253.74 mm, from the D&S book the drawing showing STO 0 position, when calculated to 48th scale comes out at 247.729 mm, from the above statement by gingerbob from his drawings both engine type aircraft share the same length so the kit is 6mm too long or 288 mm inreal life or 11.338 inch's. So if I make the assumption that the new nose when fitted must equal the overall kit length with spinner it should look correct in proportion. Does this seem a good start point?