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Builders
own resin cast propeller blades from own master.
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Propeller
spinner reshaped for correct cannon opening cannon barrel from machined
brass.
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Engine
plumbed and wired with brass and copper wire. Additional engine
fittings from scratch and parts from Edward detail set.
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Reworked
machine gun from spares box.
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Exhaust
shrouding from sheet brass.
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Engine
cover from kit but sanded to scale thickness and cut open with inside
of cover detailed with stretched sprue.
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Bottom
engine cowling and oil cooler scoop reshaped to correct configuration
with resin and putty.
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Engine
panel lines correction and rescribed.
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Cockpit
is Edwuard detail set with Revi gun sight from scratch. Reflectors
are from cut slide-cover glass.
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Canopy
is builders own master carved to correct shape and Vac-u-formed
with sheet butyrate. Center section is folded and glued butyrate.
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All
landing flaps were cut open and repositioned. Edwuard detail used
again.
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Wheel
wells Edwuard detail with builder's own main wing spar from sheet
styrene and wing ribs visible inside wing from same material.
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Wiring
and hydraulics visible in wheel well from brass and copper wire.
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Landing
gear cut and repositioned in correct angle and correct stance.
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300
Ltr. Type D drop tank resin copied from Hasegawa 190. All surface
detail and rivets removed and rescribed to correct depth. Dents
in tank added at this time.
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Pitot
tube from steel wire.
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Tailwheel
from spares box. Tailwheel mechanism reshaped kit part and detailed
with sheet styrene.
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Decals
from Super Scale International and Eagle Strike Productions
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All
paints Testors enamels. Aircraft weathered with airbrush, dry brush
and pencil.
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Grass
stuck in wheels is from old artist brush.
