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Old 09-20-2009, 03:08 PM
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Just realized that I've been building without posting! Sorry!
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Wings on! I wound up with a gap in one wing (entirely my fault) and so I added a disguising strip.

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Landing gear on! Not very difficult, but not well designed, either. And there isn't a very good diagram for this, either.

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The machine gun is a funny looking thing, kinda cartoony.

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On to what I assumed would be the real challenge on this model for me; the machine gun bubble. After an aborted attempt to build it out of cut clear plastic, I decided to go with Glen's technique of building the paper canopy, filling it with Sculpey and baking it to make a form, and then pulling heated plastic down on it. Here's the Sculpey form in front of the corresponding paper part.

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I decided the best way to attempt this one would be to form the plastic as side halves, rather than try for the entire form from the top. After a couple of tries I realized that I needed to get the form higher and more removed from ground level so I could pull the plastic closer and even under the form a bit, so I mounted it on a post and this helped tremendously.
Chris
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