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TBM-3 \ AS-3 TT Avenger


dora9

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So, how do you start from this:

 

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And finish with that?

 

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You carefully measure a gazillion times and then you cut.

 

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Of course you end up with some mistakes, but not too serious, like the little half moon piece that I cut by mistake. But it was taken care of and now on with the side panels!

 

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I took some .010 thou. clear Evergreen, cut it to shape and with some strips, I did the framing. You will notice the little triangle shape in the forward frame, it's for filling the space between the grennhouse and the fuse.

 

I looked at some pictures of a restoration project, and it was there, so decided to include it. Need a bit of cleaning and filling the lower right corner to get it flush to the fuse.

 

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See what I mean by filling the lower corner?

 

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So on with the other side and that will be it for the easy part! The top part of the greenhouse is a nice half round shape, so should be fairly easy to do.

 

Now the little dome that closes the rear part will be something else!

 

So stay tuned!

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Thanks guys! I was tempted by this version for some time, have a conversion kit in 1/48, but when I got the Trumpy kit I started checking the feasability and made the jump!

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So, guess I should buy a lottery ticket! I found in my stash an old Tornado canopy in 1/48 and the radius was just what I needed!

 

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A little bit of fitting and polishing should do it.

 

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Now for that dreaded bubble! Guess I'll have to do a master and strech form some clear plastic and keep my fingers crosed!

 

Stay tuned!

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