Clunkmeister

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!”

So, I had a gentleman remind me that one of the big differences of a Mk.X is the 1 piece engine side covers. Brit planes had the two piece side covers, so, I feel that this panel line needs to go away. Time to check my crystal ball. Edit: these lines stay.

Just working with kit parts, ha king, glueing, hacking some more... Comfy pillow is just sitting there

Ok, sorry for italics above. Computer stupidity. Last night I shortened and sectioned the seat, now starting to place the mounts back on. I have no earthly clue if this is even close to right, but I’ll keep hacking away until it resembles something. I’m using cushions on it because I’m going to assume by the late 50s-early 60s, comfort for one’s arse was more important than baling out over the flak infested Ruhr.

Gaz, the moment Martin break out the silver soldering equipment, mine eyes glaze over. He just lost me. I’m on my way to stomp on my Models and burn my stash. I’m obviously unworthy. :/ I think he moulds his own tires and raises the cattle for the leather for his Mustang as well. He also singlehandedly plows snow from every street in Calgary at exactly the same time henplugs holes in Hoover Dam and rescues cats from trees, and accomplishes all at exactly the same time using nothing more than chewed bubble gum, a shoelace, and a broken flip phone.

My shop is 55 miles from home. I spend 2 1/2 hours in my automobile every day. I get home between 1930 and 2000 every day. I try to grab an hour at the bench after supper so I can at least get something done. Some days I just stare at it and do little more than trim parts, other days I get on a roll and build to 2330 or so. I’m up at 0430 every morning to get to the office early, so some nights are mighty short.

now, from what I've read, the entire airplane was defanged. Armor plate, turret internals, complete Martin Turret, and all bomb sighting, aiming, and obsolete WW2 military gear was removed to save weight. I'll be winging it, but the first obvious thing to go is the armor plate on the pilot's seat.

Was working on the seat frame last night, Phil. I shortened it and sectioned it as well. Tonight I'll try modifying the bottom mounts to fit. Then I'm going to do as Nige did with the pilot's seat floor. Cut it down and lower it onto a scaffold made from Evergreen. Then we'll extend the ribbing on the sidewall. I popped the windows into the port side last night as well. I'll work at filling around the windows now and riveting as needed.

I was Army so we had our own lingo that nobody else could understand. Not even the Air Farce pigeon toed zoomies. The few time I was on Namao in the early 80s I felt like a fish out of water. I was all grunt, all the time, anyone gets in the way of my mission and he/she gets knocked over. Not a very likeable fellow, or so I was told, but on an Air Base all I saw were a bunch of idle people standing around in spiffy uniforms, wasting time. Oh how I wanted to to get them busy and dirty them up some. We'd drive in with our Deuce and report to QM for some resupply and it was like Moses entering the Promised Land through the Red Sea. Those zoomies would magically part and let us through. It took me 20 years to figure out it was because we smelled like 4 months deployed. But we'd come on base,, we got the serious looks of derision. We were badasses and we knew it.

It looks like someone landed with the parking brake on.

I have a Lodella Beau. it's missing the torpedo, but I'll look in the mashed box to see if the vacs are there for this build... hmmmm