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Spirit of St Louis FINISHED!


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Very nice touch with the stitched-up piece of fabric. IIRC, there was also a piece of fabric cut off by bounty hunters in Le Bourget on the left side of the fuselage, slightly ahead of the stabilator.

 

Hubert

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Probably not of much help for detail (except for the fasteners around the spinner maybe, and for showing how difficult those cooling slots are to spot).

But an interesting pic of what appears to be an artist adding another flag to the 'countries visited' tally.

 

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Eric,

   You've managed to take an already spectacular build that few could ever match, and kick it up a few more notches. Those added details are just incredible, as you've pushed your build even closer to historical accuracy. :wow:  :yahoo:  :thumbsup: 

 

Joel 

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Guest Peterpools

Eric

I'm right with Mark

Brilliant as brilliant gets

Keep 'em coming

Peter

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Onto the final details now. Most of the kit parts in white metal are a bit over scale and clunky and certainly won't do the final product justice. Luckily they aren't too hard to sratchbuild.

 

First up the lifting handles on the rear of the fuselage. The kit part is in the tweezers. I made up some new ones from brass and plastic.

 

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The Venturi tube also copped the same treatment, which I turned up on my lathe.

 

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Installed with a bracket made of brass and mounting straps on the strut from the same metal foil as the cowls.

 

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The door got a handle on its inner side. The real one didnt have anything on the outside and it didn't have a window.

 

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The heater box and piping from the kit was a bit basic and lacked detail

 

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I formed lengths of thick copper wire to replace the heater piping and then wrapped them in thin copper wire

 

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Installed and painted. Looks a lot better.

 

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I also made a small lever from scrap brass and added a control wire for the heater box.

 

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The rigging, Gaspatch turnbuckles and EZLine.

 

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