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Crimea_River
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.....til now.
I finally regenerated some gumption to carry on and concentrated on the F24 camera installation. The only thing provided in the kit was a rather poor-looking icicle thingy dangling from the cabin floor. Though I have no pictures of the camera setup in the Wimpy, I decided to improvise based on the sketch of the Lancaster installation posted earlier. To start with, I tried to locate a camera in my spares and, though I had a pair of really nice German ones, the best I could come up with for the British unit was a "partial" unit from my Revell Mosquito.
Using the single piece as a basis, I sawed off part of the body on the top and added the film cartridge lid using two pieces of thick plastic card glued together and shaped with a scalpel and file. A strip of aluminum tape represents the closure strap and a length of styrene tube was used to extend the lens body.
Next, I glued in the clear piece part for the camera opening and added a circular fairing that was obliquely cut from a drinking straw, the inside of which was painted black. A frame for the camera was built using styrene rod.
With the camera painted a dark grey and the inside of the lens black, I formed the lens using Testors Clear Part Cement which is still drying in the below pic.
Here's the finished unit, all of which will be seen through the adjacent crew hatch.
The next step will be to add the camera motor and control box and wire these to the camera. Hope to get to that soon. Thanks for your interest and comments everyone!
I finally regenerated some gumption to carry on and concentrated on the F24 camera installation. The only thing provided in the kit was a rather poor-looking icicle thingy dangling from the cabin floor. Though I have no pictures of the camera setup in the Wimpy, I decided to improvise based on the sketch of the Lancaster installation posted earlier. To start with, I tried to locate a camera in my spares and, though I had a pair of really nice German ones, the best I could come up with for the British unit was a "partial" unit from my Revell Mosquito.
Using the single piece as a basis, I sawed off part of the body on the top and added the film cartridge lid using two pieces of thick plastic card glued together and shaped with a scalpel and file. A strip of aluminum tape represents the closure strap and a length of styrene tube was used to extend the lens body.
Next, I glued in the clear piece part for the camera opening and added a circular fairing that was obliquely cut from a drinking straw, the inside of which was painted black. A frame for the camera was built using styrene rod.
With the camera painted a dark grey and the inside of the lens black, I formed the lens using Testors Clear Part Cement which is still drying in the below pic.
Here's the finished unit, all of which will be seen through the adjacent crew hatch.
The next step will be to add the camera motor and control box and wire these to the camera. Hope to get to that soon. Thanks for your interest and comments everyone!