Very Nice
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Very NiceSome pictures of the 1/72nd and 1/48th versions together. And lastly the magazine that started it all which has been up in my attic all these years.
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We finally get to see what the front of that airplane looks like. Very impressive work.It's finally done and its been a long time coming from when I first started thinking about this project .
In the November 1995 issue of Scale Modeler Magazine there was an article about a conversion like this and I started thing about doing it myself. Jump ahead five or six years when I acquired the two Heller kits to do it. Those kits sat in my stash waiting, being pulled down and looked at from time to time as I thought about starting the project, until I finally did in September 2013. By that time I had decided to it in 1/48th scale instead of the 1/72nd scale of the Heller kits, but thought it would be a good idea to start with the Heller kits to make sure I could do it before I went and cut up two I/48 AMT kits. The 1/72nd version took me six months to complete and I decided to take a break before starting the 1/48th version.
That break turned into five years when a little over a year ago I started cutting up the AMT kits.
Well here it is, 25 years from conception to finished model. That has got to be some king of record!
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Nose of the F4U-4, with it's 'beard' intake?I can't just mount the nacelles on the existing wing like I did with the P-40 because I have to increase the wing span, which also causes problems with the plan of the trailing edge. And I don't have a clue what I could use to build the nacelles or the gun nose out of.
I think that would make more sense Glenn.Either that or use the nacelles off a B-25 and be satisfied with two R-2600 for powerplants, which sounds a bit more reasonable.
They could be mounted much like the P-61C, which had the same engine and turbo supercharger (x2): in the upper nacelle with inlets and ancillaries in the wing.2. Where are the turbos?