alaninaustria Posted July 23, 2007 Author Share Posted July 23, 2007 Thanks for the nice comments guys, I do appreciate them! To guage the market....I would like to ask.... who would like to see this set in resin...complete with all the detail provided? I will be sending it in for a casting appraisal this week.... if you are interested... let me know by signing on this thread The corrugated floor and the flat floor will be available seperately if the casting goes through. Cheers Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveJ Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 I think you could count me in! That office is something else... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcauchi Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 I don;t plan on building any jugs yet Alan but with the kind of detail you have put into that cockpit I would certainly go for it if it were available. It is absolutely gorgeous and is so Radu-ishly clean and accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngoMango Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 I don;t plan on building any jugs yet Alan but with the kind of detail you have put into that cockpit I would certainly go for it if it were available. It is absolutely gorgeous and is so Radu-ishly clean and accurate. agree wholeheartedly Brian. Alan, I'm in the same boat as Brian actually. I don't have any immediate plans on building a P-47, though I definitely will at some stage, and when that time comes I'd go for one of your cockpit sets if I could obtain it easily enough. Cheers, and keep up the great work. Ango Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kagemusha Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Would you be doing one of each type cockpit? If so, I'd buy one of each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Pratt Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Alan I'm in...great work mate...will this set come with the new instrument panel?...cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted July 23, 2007 Author Share Posted July 23, 2007 To all that have expressed interest so far, thank you... I am trying to guage interest - so please do speak up! And thanks once again for the nice comments! Alan I'm in...great work mate...will this set come with the new instrument panel?...cheers Thanks Dave! All the parts that are in the pics will be available, including a few that I recently made - but that are not in the current pics. Possibly, due to casting constraints... some parts may need to be modified to ease casting. Would you be doing one of each type cockpit? If so, I'd buy one of each. Yes, if the casting goes well... the different types of floors will be available to choose from. Thanks again guys, as soon as I know anything else I will let everybody know on board! Cheers Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted July 29, 2007 Author Share Posted July 29, 2007 On a different note: I have started the rocket tubes for my second P-47 build... I trimmed plastic rod all to the same length on my lathe and then reamed them all to thin the walls.... did all this while sitting out on the patio in the warm Austrian summer evening!! Not much to see yet.... but a start... Cheers Alan I will time permitting also be making the rockets that go with these tubes... I like to crack the lathe out sometimes... it adds a bit of different 'dimension' to the hobby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted July 29, 2007 Author Share Posted July 29, 2007 This is how they will go together.... Time permitting tomorrow: I will get all the details finished up... this should be a rather straight forward scratch job... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted July 30, 2007 Author Share Posted July 30, 2007 Well moving right along here with the build.... I added some detail, but I am effectively "stuck"... I cannot find any close up detail shots of the mountings for these rocket tubes... does anybody have any shots of the actual tubes mounted onto the wing and exactly where are the mountings located? Anyhow, I hope somebody will be able to help me out a bit! Cheers Alan In the pic below: I have added the support braces and the wrappings for the tubes I have pics of the rear and forward mounts.... but I have NO idea where these suckers mount onto the wings.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted July 30, 2007 Author Share Posted July 30, 2007 A little more.... I might sand down the channels a bit ... they look a bit too thick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted July 30, 2007 Author Share Posted July 30, 2007 another angle.... I hope they aren't too long... If they are... I can always trim them a bit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted July 30, 2007 Author Share Posted July 30, 2007 The last one.... until I figure out where the hell these things are actually mounted!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngoMango Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Hi Alan, man you are becoming a real master of scratchbuilding, aren't you?! These rocket tubes look brilliant. Your scratch work with plastic is so neat Sorry I can't tell you off the top of my head how these rocket launchers are mounted, but I might be able to find something in my reference files if nobody else has the information at hand. Anyway, keep up the great work on the T'bolt, can't wait to see more. Cheers Ango EDIT: Alan, hopefully the attached pic I just found on my computer might help somewhat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngoMango Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 and then a photo of the rocket launchers mounted. Sorry about the sh!t quality of the shot..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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