Clunkmeister

Oh for goodness sakes!

Yeah buddy. I tell you what, bud. Someday you oughta get you one and build one of your dream Gonnybirds. That'd impress me, at least till you put in a Martin Baker seat and painted it grey.

One other thing that needs doping is the installation of dual controls. It appears there was a rudimentary dual control system installed sometime in the 1950s.

Yes, they went through a bunch of alterations over the years. I think I've settled on 104. It's the lesser modeled of the two well known birds, and I'm doing her in her final livery of white/grey/NMF, with the red and white lightning stripe. I love that scheme, and if all works out, I may end up doing an RCAF Dak in the same scheme. The ubiquitous RCAF C-119s also wore that scheme for awhile, as did the C-130s and Argus patrol bombers. I find it a very spiffy and well turned out scheme.

Better safe than sorry, Tony. Being that I FUBAR'd the first one, I really need backup. What's really odd is that Floyd put the blown canopy for V-13 in the box as well. V-14 had a standard hood.

What. I REALLY need is a close up of the radar dome under the belly. And maybe of the rear camera pod.

Thanks for the pics, Jeff. I'm so incredibly relieved we can't see down the fuselage, as doing those ribs looks like one seriously major undertaking. I'll need to see how far down we can really see into the fuselage, because maybe a bit of basic rearranging and changing around in the radio room and the engineering room might be in order. I have to try to keep this sane, as I have a feeling it'd be extremely easy to get lost in all this...

Hmmm, bad information coming from on high. I'm almost convinced I'm being given the Mushroom Treatment...

Yep, I received mine as well. Tony, with your attention to detail, you'll clobber this kit. Because you need to remove all guns and military equipment, the E-3 is a bit more work to backdate, but should work well. I need to grab a couple more as well. I have an E-1, but it's earmarked for an early Jumo powered, two bladed prop conversion.

I built one of these conversions when they first came out. It was my very first conversion and all I can say is that it was a learning experience and the results show as much. Im looking forward to taking another run at this conversion

Thought about that, but then I’d have to paint it grey. K-36 might fit better though

But if you cut the floor down 1/2” it seems about bang on the money. It’ll get you close, anyway.

Maybe if I add styrene rod along the length it’ll deepen the look a bit as well. And I haven’t added the front sheet metal yet, so that’ll help some. I’ll try it and see.

Ugh, too late for my plans

In wartime yes, but not sure about the 60s birds...

Exactly. Or use a comfy pillow. Smitty, one thing I noticed in the panorama of Just Jane was that the truss that supports the pilots seat pedestal is surrounded by some kind of a sheet metal thingy upon which various pipes, hoses, pouched etc are attached to. You can’t see the truss at all, so just lowering the floor should be plenty enough for me. I like to build what I’ll see, the rest I leave to the imagination. There’s a bit of busying up we can do in the cockpit as well, wire bundles, etc, running along the sidewalls, and like Mige showed, a few pipes on the seat itself as well. Not excessive, but there’s a few of them. Im trying not to turn this into a ‘Make Work Project’, so I’m being selective on what we build here.

Happy happy happy!

But it seems to have developed a side effect of bare sidewall syndrome.

Eureka, I think I got it!!! I’ll use this...... And one one of these! And it looks close enough to where I could sell it to the Air Ministry.

So here’s what I’ve been doing. I’m bored, so I let the knife start carving away just to see what could happen. Just for kicks and giggles, I took 1/2”off the height of the floor. Hey, I already buggered the seat into an unrecognizable lump, so let’s go for broke on the rest of the model. My goal is to get the top of the main seat frame just about level with the edge of the sidewall. At first, I thought THIS might work. 3/8”. But that was not it. And then, this machine..... But that was not it...... hmmm. I need more time. More thought......

Nige, you just made my Millenium!

Carl, I know the traffic in the GTA,... 15 years ago. It was hideous then, and I can't even begin to imagine now. No sir, unless you could telecommute, there's no way on Earth I'd be thinking of moving. I do it now in the DFW Metroplex, and it's a killer. I have an added expense of easily $50,000.00 over a 5 year period from commuting alone. (I'm probably low on that estimate, actually) 20K for a new commuter car every five years, insurance, fuel, tolls, maintenance, and sundries. And that doesn't even take into account lost time with my family that when added up, = months. I buy a small, economical commuter car and drive it until things start constantly wearing out and breaking. Usually 5 years is about right. My current one is a 2014 Focus, and it's pushing 220,000 MILES and it's getting tired. New car in my future

Martin I just fell in love with your wife. nice job!

Some advertising. The Lanc tweaks thread is my guide. I’m clueless to the Lanc, so I’m a sponge here....

And as Nige pointed out, the floor is way too high. I placed the seat on it with white glue, just to get an idea. This is sitting there on the seat frame, without the mounts even on the seat. Thefloor needs to be lowered by an actual 1/2” or so. Fark! So I’m gonna go full copycat and copy Nige. He admits his might not be exactly 100% either, but the floor is definitely too high and extends too far back. It’s pretty visible with that huge greenhouse, so “a hackin’ we will go!”