Mk. VIII Gunsight Cross-Hairs Placement?

[Bill Cross]

I am building the MDC resin 'pit for the Hase' P-47D Bubble Top, and it truly is an amazing piece of model accessory. I can't imagine building the pathetic Hasegawa kit without it, but the instructions are fairly crude Xeroxed photo sheets. As such, I can't figure out where to put the PE crosshairs for the Mk. VIII gunsight. I notice that most photos of these sight do NOT have the crosshairs element.

 

It looks as though the crosshairs are actually along side the tilted glass lens, but I can't be sure.

[LSP_K2]

Perhaps this will help. (Scanned from the Dai-Nippon Kaiga, Aero Detail book here.)

 

 

 

[Edgar Brooks]

Some early gunsights were prone to failure, so it was common practice to have a set of crosshairs alongside, which could be swung round, and used in place of the sight, following a failure. As the sights improved, I understand that the crosshairs were deleted.

Edgar

Edited December 30, 2013 by Edgar Brooks

[Bill Cross]

Thanks, it looked like it was around to the side. I am doing a bare metal D, so I'll leave it off.

[waroff]

the cross hair was mounted on a plate attached to the bottom of the gunsight and could not be swung

In case where there was this cross hair, there was a pin on the cowling

the gunsight centerlineof N3A, Mk VIII... was 1"5 on the right of airplane center line

 

top: N3A

below, Mk VIII

Edited January 1, 2014 by waroff

[Bill Cross]

Thanks, THAT'S the sort of illustration I needed!