GB-59 1/72 Mitsubishi Ki-15 'Babs' - WW2 PTO V

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Cheers Andy.
Looking at available schematics again, and considering going the whole hog on this - redoing ribbing and stringers to correct scale thicknesses... decisions decisions...
 
A4K said:
Cheers Andy.
Looking at available schematics again, and considering going the whole hog on this - redoing ribbing and stringers to correct scale thicknesses... decisions decisions...
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Pointless IMO, unless you thin the walls to a scale thickness but I'd not recommend that!
 
I'd mostly just like to make the stringers smaller.
I didn't have smaller styrene strip, and didn't want to cut strips by hand, so just went with the same 0.25 x 0.5 mm strip of the ribs. Just can't live with it though, so ordered a mixed bag of Plastikard tube and square rod in various shapes and sizes yesterday. Should get them on Wednesday.
 
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Exactly Dave.
It can, and never will be, completely accurate (almost anything in 1:72 is automatically out of scale, due to the tiny nature of the parts!), but we are creating an illusion, trying to make it 'look' realistic, without actually being so.
I personally will be happy if it 'looks right' or atleast 'semi-right', but I need to change a couple of things with this one for that yet.
 
It's the preservation of history.
 
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