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Howdy, All,
Well, I got a little time on the bench this evening. Andy, you are so very correct about the decisions that need to be made during assembly. I am still not sure if I am going to leave the MG13 bay open or not yet. I do know I will leave one of the cannon bays open, but not both. I decided I would still utilize two of the pieces from the MG bay that are supposed to be left off if closing the bay. I'll need to check what needs to be cut out if I close the bay. I wanted to keep these pieces as they have the ejector chutes molded into them. I did decide to drill these out and shape the final cut outs with an xacto blade. You can this work here:
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I got most of the engine "plug" assembly done tonight. I still need to verify the fit and finish of a couple of pieces and do final weathering and staining. I may add some additional wiring if I can find a reference I can trust of the wheel bay. The pics below are with a dry fit in one fuse side. I just wanted to do a sanity check. You can just make out the ejector chutes now that I managed to get some flat black into them in the final picture. Here is the work so far:
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Not sure how much I will get done this weekend on the Dora as the superscale decal set for the P-51B arrived late this evening. I do want to get that bird done so I can check one decent construction project off.
Dale
I read that too. If you look at he pic of Red 1 on the top of page 59 you can make out one white band on the rear fuselage. On page 92, a white stripe can be seen near the centerline of Red 13 running well behind the wheel wells.
Well, when I did my 1/48 JV44 D-9 'Red 13', the EE decals showed her with white stripes all the way to the tail, but, when I bought the their later 1/32 scale decals for the same JV44 Doras, doing 'Red 13' again, it says...
Colors: Undersurfaces, RLM 76 Light Blue fuselage sides, Red with unevenly spaced White stripes which wary in width, Whites stripes seem to be absent on the bottom of the rear fuselage from the wheel wells to the tail...
They've also changed the top colours from the 1/48 set to the 1/32 one!
It says: Uppersurfaces, originally thought to be RLM 75/RLM 83, now, because of the W. Nr. 210240 realized it's more likely the upper combination would be RLM 82/RLM 83....
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Well Andy I thought the same at first but that mark looks more likely to be a scratch on the picture, it angles down too far and should have a slight curve to it as it disappears, if you look to the right in that pic you can see another scratch from the 'rear' of the guy standing on the wheel which looks to be parallel to what i think is the first scratch.....my observation of course!
Yes, I think you are right about that scratch on the picture of Red 13 and so withdraw that observation. So I thought I'd look closer at the the many other pics of red 13 in Crandall's volume 2 book. None of them conclusively show the stripes to the tail but one, to me, suggests their presence. Take a close look at the pic on page 94. On the fuselage bottom, straight below the open hatch and just ahead of the base for the D/F loop, I can make out a very faint line. Thoughts?