Building the B29

Building the B29

This article is full of great information on the building of the B29. I never knew the Hudson motor car company built the pressure compartment for the B29 in Detroit. Amazing what Detroit did during the second world war

Super Connie being restored to flight.

Lufthansa is flying to get this Connie in the air by 2019-2020 time frame,

BF-109 oxygen control

I belong to this facebooks for BF-109 restorations.  There are some great picture of part one normal does see.  Figured I would post them here are reference.  Nice to see the real thing so one can model the part correctly..

ARC form problem

If you have tried to go to the forum on ARC you will get this.,

Hope someone will fix the problem.

1/72 Connie build by Akira WATANABE

Just found this on the internet.  The modeller did a fantastic job on it.  To fix the errors on the Heller Connie he used Fisher new Nose and Flight paths engines.   Here is a link so you can see for yourself.

1/72 Connie

D4Y restoration vidoe

Last video is the engine run up after restoration.  enjoy.

want to know the correct size of scale aircraft gun barrel...here you go

Info August 7 2016 at 5:38 AM		Andrew Deeley   (Login deeley) HyperScale Forums from IP address 86.189.128.252
Response to Help Wanted: scale tubing measurements for guns?
Hi I did as search on HS under - gun barrel metal tubing chart. The below came up. Suggest you do a similar search as it had much more info and tips than I can post Andrew Ps sorry for no credits. I'm using an iPad and copy paste is a pain. This came Here is a chart... February 17 2007, 12:27 PM that some posted on the FSM forum some time back. The parts numbers correspond to tubing found athttp://www.smallparts.com/CatagoryGUI.cfm Scale Gun Barrel Chart For Hypodermic Tubing 1/72 Scale Caliber I.D. Gauge+ Part # - 304* Part # - 316* .30 cal.** .00416" 33 HTX-33R N/A .50 cal.*** .00694" 28 HTX-28R HTXX-28R 20 mm .01090" 25 HTX-25R HTXX-25R 25 mm .01310" 23 HTX-23R HTXX-23R 30 mm .01640" 22 HTX-22R HTXX-22R 1/48 Scale .30 cal.** .00625" 30 HTX-30R HTXX-30R .50 cal.*** .01040" 25 HTX-25R HTXX-25R 20 mm .01640" 22 HTX-22R HTXX-22R 25 mm .02050" 21 HTX-21R HTXX-21R 30 mm .02460" 20 HTX-20R HTXX-20R 1/35 Scale .30 cal.** .00857" 27 HTX-27R HTXX-27R .50 cal.*** .01430" 24 HTX-24T HTXX-24T 20 mm .02250" 20 HTX-20R HTXX-20R 25 mm .02810" 19 HTX-19R HTXX-19R 30 mm .03370" 18 HTX-18R HTXX-18R + the gauge has been rounded out to the closest available from www.smallparts.com * these are the two (2) different grades of hypodermic tubing can be used for 303 British, .30 Browning, 7.62x39mm, 7.62x51mm and 7.7 Jap or Arisaka *** can be used for .50 Browning or 12.7mm Russian