MB Mk F7
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pencil sketch, after the Ejection Site's photo www.ejectionsite.com/texans/mkf7down.jpg
911 GT1 1996 missing model pieces
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Our friends at Tamiya did their customary good job designing their 1996 Porsche 911 GT1 kit. There's a lot of parts, as molded in black, white, silver, clear etc, its buildable without painting, or with some painting. But time is money and, as always happens, they stopped adding parts or representations of the actual car before exhausting the subject.
Besides electronics boxes in the cockpit, and hoses, tubes. cables and mechanical linkages in the engine compartment, the parts most obviously not present are the stock 911 unibody front sheeet metal ahead of the front wheels, the prominent ducting from the front of the car to the front brtakes, and the plenum above the radiator that forces the 'trunk' lid vent to draw air from the radiator. That last one is the hardest part to find a good photo of and I"m still working on it. However, I have been able to get a fairly good composite view of the front sheetmetal and brake ducts and this drawing shows what they look ilke, in sketch form, and the shapes and sized of the pieces of flat plastic stock I used to make them. The associated photo shows the pieces of the brake duct "S" bend being snapped out and shaped, all the pieces taped together and shown in place, and all the pieces layed out flat to show what they look like.
Martin Baker Mk F7 ejection seat drawing
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pencil sketch, after the Ejection Site's photo www.ejectionsite.com/texans/mkf7down.jpg
Now I'm going to try coloring it in...
Minicraft Boeing 377 Stratocruiser cockpit, wheel well dwg
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Here's an overhead view of the Model 377 cockpit, with the two pilot's seats out front, a big console between them and running back to the flight engineer's station. The flight engineer has an L shaped desk and sits facing a bank of instruments and controls on the starboard side of the cockpit, behind the co-pilot's seat. Nothing touches the curved nose bulkheads that the clear parts are set in. The pilot's instruments are gathered in a free-standing box that sits behind the metal part between the two lowest rows of transparencies. If you look at an exterior photo of the actual airplane you'll see this. There's a big pedestal on the left of the pilot's seat - far port side. It has a big wheel on it and is probably the nose wheel steering. Conventional trim wheels are in the conventional locations on the console. Throttle, mixture, propeller pitch are closer to the back of the console- where the pilot/copilot can see and operate them if they have to, but they're primarily the engineer's job. That's how it worked in the big piston engine days.
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