Mustang Canopy question - Page 4

**Darwin** · #31 11-14-2007, 08:49 PM

To pick up on Golden Bear's suggestion, the bubble portion of the hood looks like it could be approximated by the shrink-wrap packaging used on Christmas tree lights (the good-old-fashioned, big catch-the-tree-branch-afire kind). If you want to be secular, I would think a night-light bulb or one of the chandelier-type light bulbs might give you about the right size/shape section for the Malcom portion of the hood. Wouldn't be the first time a modeller made a purchase for the wrapping, not the product.

**dansls1** · #32 11-15-2007, 06:15 AM

Birder - Making canopies, especially by vacumolding, isn't something that looks fun or interesting to me. I understand people who do enjoy it, but I'm just not one. That's why I'll buy pre-made when available or look for substitutes when necessary. (Obviously on things like the BF109 when they are straight pieces of plastic, substituting is very easy.)

Darwin - very good ideas that I hadn't thought of.

Now - the next one will be coming up with the rear 'bubble' for a P61 for when I get around to building the Gremir kit...

**Don Boose** · #33 11-15-2007, 06:43 AM

Dan -- You're going to build the Gremir P-61? That's good news. I really look forward to that build! Don B.

**dansls1** · #34 11-15-2007, 07:48 AM

Yeah - I'm not sure when - but it's near the top. I am going to obviously finish the BF109 and build one or 2 of the Halinski's on the stack first - but it'll come after that.

**Don Boose** · #35 11-15-2007, 08:14 AM

And the Wahlfish!

**birder** · #36 11-15-2007, 02:03 PM

that's cool, it may be impatience on my part anyway, but I'm a tinkerer and putterer by nature. I'm thinking about woodturning wheels.....maybe

**dansls1** · #37 11-15-2007, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by birder

that's cool, it may be impatience on my part anyway, but I'm a tinkerer and putterer by nature. I'm thinking about woodturning wheels.....maybe

Now, I turned stacked paper wheels for the Gee Bee Racer and have formed and coated with superglue the wheels for my current BF109 - just have to screw them onto the dremel (I picked up the part for turning wooden wheels for pinewood derby cars to allow thicker stacks to be turned).
I did purchase wooden 'pre-formed' wheels for the BF-109T - but after I got them, I won't buy any again as I don't see them being an improvement over what I can do.

And Don, yes the Wahlfisch has not been forgotten, although I've been assembly-lining exhaust bits for the BF109 this week, so I haven't done anything further to it.

**Don Boose** · #38 05-29-2014, 05:26 AM

On this date 74 years ago, 30 May 1940, the first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair took place.

**thepaperguy** · #39 05-29-2014, 07:12 AM

An alternative option is to look into vacu form canopies for 1/32 scale plastic kits. There already shaped and ready to attach.

**airdave** · #40 05-29-2014, 09:07 AM

I know this is a very old thread and old question, but its a good point.

British Mustangs = Mark I, II, III, IV

American Mustang = P-51A, B, C, D

Get it?

So a P-51C was produced for the United Kingdom as a Mustang Mk.III
A P-51D (bubble top) would be a Mustang Mk. IV