Scratch build Boeing F4B-4

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As with the avionics box in my previous post, I made a large copy of the throttle face with the appropriate letters. From there, I stood at varying distances with my iPhone on comers setting & took a series of photos I felt would result in an image close to the desired size to fit within the model.

I then created a couple of near-identical copies of the throttle face. One was small to simply act as a spacer to make room for the throttle itself to be glued in between.

 

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As these photos illustrate, the throttle is just a couple of identical laminations with enough space in between for the throttle & mixture.

I then used just a small dab of filler to close up the two sides.

 

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The mixture was just a pin with a red painted ball at the end. These ball pins are easily available at most local arts & crafts stores.

 

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The throttle is tubular shaped & featured a push-to-talk button on the end. This was accomplished by cutting a short length of suitable sized plastic tubing.

I then threaded a short piece of black thread into the tubing & pulled it until the end of the thread was just sticking out to give that button.

A small piece of cardstock painted silver acted as a "clip" for the wire for the mic.

Almost there…..

 

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Finally, the throttle lock was just a series of eyeball-crossingly small pieces of pictures of the locking mechanism cut out & round plastic punched out & "skewarded" with a pin.

 

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Voila'! One throttle for a P-51 Mustang.

Quick edit:

This style of assembly took me about two weeks in my spare time & can be applied to most throttles used on various airplanes.

Cheers,