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And in today’s installment... In today’s mail: micro-fabric seatbelts for the P-47. I have the Eduard PE belts, but wanted to give the fabric version a shot for comparison’s sake so a question for the experts - what’s the best glue for these guys? I’m thinking really thin CA (the instructions say “dispersive glue”, whatever that means). Any pointers?

Got the rudder cable pulleys finished and installed took a couple of tries to get them looking right. I ended up using resin rivets for the centers, sanded flat. placement is as close as I can get, based on a handful of pics from different aircraft in various states of disarray ideally, they’d be a bit closer to the sides, but the doc case on the right side is a bit over-deep. This forced me to move the pulleys a bit towards the center, but they look good when viewed from above/outside. The paint will be washed/toned back a bit once the glue sets up.

Any word?

Oh - and the P-47 ETO book comes with a nice set of decals for some of the highlighted aircraft, in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 - useful for future builds

Amazon is my friend...! ...though I wish I had the P-47 Flight Ops Manual about a month ago! There are some small errors in PE placement in the Eduard instructions, which are problematic to fix at this point without some major repainting

Serve ya right if ever I find a decent-sized Pan Am Clipper...

This...

Is that an A6 or EA6 Trumpeter kit on the bottom of the right side? i have a fondness for the EA6 - one of my uncles worked on them on the USS Midway during the Vietnam War that would be my choice

Happy day!!!

Dammit - you guys are giving me the bug for more non-standard builds. Now I'm looking at adding a P-47N in post-war Air National Guard guise to the build queue. Asshats, the lot of ye!

I am deeply sorry to hear this And yes, it's always the idiot waste-of-oxygen family members who show up like buzzards at these times. My best to you and yours - this will be a difficult time, regardless of how many f***s you give or don't give (and I know that they can be in critically short supply, so horde any that you find, rather than investing them on unworthy topics) Be good to you.

Good lord Much respect!

Nicely done!!! That's a ton of CAD work, and a clean print - I'm following happily

I somehow managed to miss this thread completely, so as penance, I bring you... the Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen...

I gave up on PB after their great extortion - though I had so much shared from there at the time I gave them a few shekels to keep things visible while I migrated off i have received about five emails from them this week - great way to alienate whatever customer base they have remaining

So is this a fix that can be applied just through careful gluing or will there need to be surgery?

I just watched both videos and am once again in utter awe at the scope of this work

I’ve also convinced myself to replicate the metal flange around the base of the stick, as that’s another bit that’s kind of obvious in the middle of the floor.

One of the key motivators I use for myself when i’m stuck is to say to myself “hey - it’s time to do something irrevocable!” looks like you’ve done exactly that!

The one that comes to mind just now is the Signifer 1/48 Grumman Goose Its gorgeous insofar as details are concerned, but the internal fit is abysmal

Cockpit clutter coming along slowly, and without a huge amount of bench time it’s going to continue this way for at least another week. At least there’s some reportable progress... I worked out the throttle quadrant linkage, built up from some spare plastic and .015” hard wire. Once that was in, I turned to the control lock and rudder cable pulleys. The control lock is a bit of 1/32” brass rod, with a coat of thick CA applied and trimmed to form a sleeve. I need to do a second layer and cut it square before painting and attaching to the stick. The pulleys for the rudder cables seemed to be a bigger challenge than they are turning out to be (at least for the moment!). I punched out four 1/8” disks from .010” sheet, which when glued in pairs make quite passable pulleys. I drilled them and used some small brass pins left over from the Picket Boat as hubs - i’m happy so far with the results. I need to cut and build the mounting brackets from some thin brass, then paint and these will be done. getting the rudder cables rigged will be a bit of a pain, since there’s about zero working room. I figure i’ll connect the rigging line the the rudder pedals before installing them in the cockpit, then route the lines around the pulleys and out through the cockpit sides. I’ve seen a couple different versions of the cable routing - one variation has the cable routed through a thin guide tube from the pulley to the cockpit wall (outside of which is another set of pulleys), while the other simply has cable exposed the whole way. I’ll flip a coin and go with the version that seems closest in time to my bird... lastly, i’m making up the leather boot for the stick out of plain brown masking tape - it has exactly the right grain for this purpose and I have a pattern from an original P-47 parts manual page to use to cut it out. so that’s it for the moment - hoping to tie this all up and move on to the rest of the build after this coming weekend!

I think she’s been taking to my SO - it’s a conspiracy!

I love your approach to detailing - I am settling in to watch this develop

It's sad when there's even a hint of bias in judging - and also frustratingly unavoidable in something that depends so sensitively on the eye and mind of the beholder. I would love to know the actual objective criteria for these things, and how it's supposed to be applied.

So out of plain perverse curiosity, what *did* win in the judged aircraft category?