pacificmustang Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Gday All, can anyone confirm that the CMK set corrects the too shallow kit cockpit? Any other options apart from the Meteor set which you cant get anymore? (mind you if someone has one to sell at a reasonable price!!!!!) Cheers Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhorina Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Bruce, Mike West , Lone Star Models has it available. Mike Horina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csavaglio Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 The CMK one does not correct the depth issues, as far as I remember. Mike does one, but I'm not sure about the depth on that either. The only one I know 100% for sure fixes it, is the old Cutting Edge one, but they're hard to find. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I've got both the CE and CMK sets and neither is full depth. The CMK set is the same as the stock bits while the CE one is maybe only slightly deeper. The only one I found that seems to be the right depth is the one made by Part. It's completely PE, you make the ribs and floor from multiple parts so is quite fiddly to build. I botched it so ended up using bits from both the CE and CMK sets to just git'er done. Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Sounds pretty disappointing Never mind...I have the Trumpeter P-40B, so, with the correct references, who knows?... Derek A340 Pilot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csavaglio Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Derek, The Trump kit is the one with the cockpit depth issues....hopefully I read your post right. I think a P-40 cockpit isn't out of the realm of scratchbuilding to correct, but having a drop in cockpit makes life a bit easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironman1945 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I used th CMK cockpit, details are ok but yes the cockpit sidewalls are too shallow. I used sheet plastic and stringers to lengthen.... not too difficult. Dave/Ironman1945 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Bellis Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 None of the aftermarket cockpit sets for the Trumpeter P-40B accurately corrects the shallow depth issue. The best of the bunch is the long gone Cutting Edge set, but it is also a shade too shallow. As Dave states above, correcting it yourself isn't too difficult. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacificmustang Posted December 8, 2012 Author Share Posted December 8, 2012 Thanks for all your help fellas, I'll go with the Lone star one, but, as you say correcting it myself would not be too hard, and would help in pushing my skills Bruce Derek B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalashnikov-47 Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Lone Star Models website says "corrected depth" in its description of their cockpit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Bellis Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Lone Star Models website says "corrected depth" in its description of their cockpit. Two things: Accuracy and corrected depth. Another thread on this old subject: http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=12144&&do=findComment&comment=90416 D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Mr Bellis, Thanks for finding the levers to the LSP way-back-machine to this topic. I just pawed my Trumpeter P-40B/C kits. I used two as donors for P-36, long and short nose conversions (Cutting Edge-not-for-the-impatient) and used both Lone Star as my mock up for the floor and I corrected the depth for the CE Set. ( I need to paint and finish the things). The elevators on the T kits were deemed correct by various pundits for the P-36 but not for the P-40. There are other AM sets for that issue. Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Bellis Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Mr Bellis, Thanks for finding the levers to the LSP way-back-machine to this topic. You're welcome. But, you must have found those levers, too, because the thread we're in is 5 years old all by itself - almost to the day. D BiggTim and Rick Griewski 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggTim Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Wow, you're right!! Rick Griewski and D Bellis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phasephantomphixer Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Time sure flies when you have LSP scratchbuilding fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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