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Old 07-04-2022, 11:19 AM
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Help! - Modelart OV-10 Bronco Canopy 1/33 scale

Emil Zarkov's OV-10 Bronco is a beautiful model with excellent fit and finish, but I can't seem to build a clear canopy that I'm happy with. It's too big for my Vacuform machine.

I would prefer to display the Bronco with one side of the canopy open, but I will settle for "all buttoned up" if the results are good.

If you have built the OV-10 in 1/33 scale, can you suggest a way to do a good-looking and accurate canopy?

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Old 07-06-2022, 02:41 PM
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Belated kudos on a great-looking model, David!

That canopy looks mighty fine to me.

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Old 07-06-2022, 03:29 PM
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The photo is from ModelArt. Mine has no canopy yet.
I should have made that clear -- sorry.
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Old 07-06-2022, 05:25 PM
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Others have been successful pushing the canopy plug against a warmed sheet of clear plastic, no vacuum required. The plastic is warmed over an open flame or in the oven. You'll need to make a frame to hold the plastic sheet, and attach the plug to a stick. It may take a few tries before you get good results.
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Old 07-06-2022, 05:35 PM
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Less the windscreen, the OV-10 canopy is essentially three semi-convex straight panels. It might be easier to create it as three single panels and combine them into the model, especially if you want to have the canopy open...
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Old 07-08-2022, 04:55 AM
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Hi, Sakrison,


a clean and fine canopy for the Bronco isn't a simple problem. Some of the building reports aren't finished as they reached the canopy...


I tried both methods a) vaccum formed (no success) and b) with single little plastic sheets (more success, but you need patience and fine working skills).
The second method needs also a glue with good bonding between paper and plastic foil.


The art is to use enough glue for bonding, but not to much glue that makes the canopy dirty while pressing the parts (foil and frame) together until the glue bonding is strong enough.
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