Scale Models - View Single Post - Built up framework for scale model cockpits.

**wonwinglo** · 26-01-2005

They say a picture is better than a thousand words,confronted with making the canopies and gun turrets for my Avro Lancaster project I opted to just build them up from ply and good old balsa,then simple vac-formed transparancies slip over the internal work,just like the real thing really except the framing is normally rivetted in place.You can use dowel,tinplate and scrap materials to simulate all of the details,this is the fun of model building just use your imagination,once painted up they look really realistic.

26-01-2005	#1 (permalink)
wonwinglo Moderator Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Warwick,UK Real Name: Barry My Models: Aviation artifacts Visit wonwinglo's Gallery Posts: 5,597 Images: 49	Built up framework for scale model cockpits. They say a picture is better than a thousand words,confronted with making the canopies and gun turrets for my Avro Lancaster project I opted to just build them up from ply and good old balsa,then simple vac-formed transparancies slip over the internal work,just like the real thing really except the framing is normally rivetted in place.You can use dowel,tinplate and scrap materials to simulate all of the details,this is the fun of model building just use your imagination,once painted up they look really realistic. __________________ 'And there I was oil on my goggles from a broken pipe,then I looked at the altimeter,all I could see was the makers name !' www.wonwinglo.scale-models.net/