Scratch build Boeing F4B-4 (2 Viewers)

[Skyediamonds]

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,

 

[Wurger]

 

[Skyediamonds]

Thank you, sir

 

[Snautzer01]

Now now.. thats a thing. Well done

 

[special ed]

Fantastic work! As one of the judges at a few (very few) R/C scale contests, the only item I have noticed (and promise me you will make no changes) is on the throttle face. The original full scale documentation provided, uses all uppercase letters while you have used upper & lowercase. Keep in mind, one of the reasons why my control line scale friends and I were not invited to more contests as judges was because of the very loud protests of one of the favored participants when he began screaming, "They count the stripes". The particular model was one of a full scale demo team flying biplanes with a sunburst of eleven stripes on the top wing and the contestant had painted only three. One other occasion taught me to not stand near the judges while they are scoring. The model was a very nice PBY and was scoring high, when the owner standing next to me commented to his friend, "I didn't have time to complete the struts last night". I had completely missed the PBY had no struts because of the overwhelming quality of the build & finish. I had to change my score slightly.

 

[Lucky13]

Phenomenal work!

 

[Crimea_River]

Pretty cool stuff.