GB-63 1/48 F-82 Twin Mustang 449th Sq Alaska – One Trick Pony

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Outstanding Glenn

 

[Crimea_River]

Excellent.

 

[Donivanp]

I decided to make the under canopy antennas that are seen in a few pictures of the Alaskan based F-82s. I could find very few clear pictured of them and the best of them are shown below. The right and left cockpit antenna were somewhat different from each other.

The first 3 pictures are of the left cockpit and the fourth one is of the right cockpit

The last pictures is what I managed to put together from some thin lead wire, a bit of plastic and some dabs of white glue. Not perfect, but close enough.

Left Cockpit
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Left Cockpit
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Left Cockpit
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Right Cockpit
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Mine made from Lead wire. The right one extends further back because I needed a way to support it
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Very nice

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Brilliant bit of scratch work Glenn.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far Glenn!

 

[T Bolt]

Put the canopies on last night. A bit more trouble than I thought it would be but came out ok. Still need to blend in the windscreens

 

[Wurger]

 

[Airframes]

Beautiful work Glenn !

 

[fubar57]

Agreed

 

[Donivanp]

SWEET

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Love them.

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far Glenn!

 

[rochie]

Fantastic Glenn

 

[T Bolt]

I'm thinking of changing the title of this thread from Twin Mustang to Deja Vu Mustang. I spend a lot of time doing one operation and then have to do the same thing over again, time after time.

The 32 vent holes in the nose drilled out with a pin vice x2 sides x2 noses =128 holes. My fingers hurt

The canopies all faired in and masked x2

The 2 fuselages joined together, but not without problems. The right fuselage glued to the wing without too much trouble, but the left side needed a whole lot of persuasion and is far from perfect.

Some of the problems. The step in the underside joint is much worse than it looks in the picture

A whole lot of filling, filing and sanding ahead of me.

 

[Donivanp]

Like wrestling a gorilla .

 

[fubar57]

Brutal

 

[Airframes]

I'm sure you'll sort it Glenn.

 

[Crimea_River]

I'm barely able to get motivated for my one build let alone doubling it up. Doing good though Glenn.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

The joys of modelling...................................."duplicated!"