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Wonderful work Uros. Great job with those little exhaust stacks, I must remember that one. Normally I don't use Humbrol paints either, I find oil based paint too big a pain, but Humbrol # 5 Grey is as close as I can find to Pratt & Whitney crankcase grey. It's not quite the same, as a matter of...

Great work Uros. What colour did you paint the nose cases, is that Humbrol # 5 grey?

Wow, really nice Uros.

Fantastic job Uros. :thumbsup I seem to remember a couple of those canisters are hydraulic accumulators. They contain a preloaded charge of nitrogen to pressurize the hydraulic system in case the hydraulic pumps quit. I presume there are two pumps, one on #2 and one on #3 engine. (That's why...

Thanks for the kind comments guys. (You're both wrong, it's Beck's non-alcoholic.) :bgrin John, thanks for the link to those wonderful pics. That's how I figured the rudders worked, as seen in a video of a -18 taxiing away from a dock someplace in Northern Ontario. The elevators are...

Fine job, Ian. :thumbsup

Nice work Duke, well done. Not something one sees every day of the week. :thumbsup

In order to install an interior in this thing, major surgery was called for. Once I had decided to cut the top off, it was a matter of deciding whether to cut along the top of the cabin window line or the bottom. Top it was. What I did was, I glued the fuselage halves together only at the roof...

Thanks for the kind comments fellas. :thumbsup John, that looks pretty much what I wound up with, with the wing tips. That's what, an H model, with an airstair door. Actually that Canadian expression has its roots in an old Hawaiian expression involving a pineapple. :woohoo: Anyway, more...

Hmmm.. it appears my thinking has become transparent. :laugh: No problem sharky. On to the Hoerner wing tips with a brief stop at the engines. I took some pics of the engine installation and can no longer find them. I downloaded them off my camera, and they seem to have disappeared into...

Fine work Ian. :thumbsup

Thanks Christian. I use anything I can lay my hands on if I find it works. I live a long way from a hobby shop, so it's not like I can pop in and pick up what I need otherwise. I had originally envisioned adding a block of wood inside the top of the nacelle, but I think this is a better fix.

Outstanding! :thumbsup I walked around a six once at an airport called Schefferville. About the only thing I remember about the airplane was those 'canisters' in the nosewheel well. You talked me into cutting away the controls on the Beech, you sweet talking son of a gun you. :laugh: The...

Thanks fellas. Yep, I found it. It's a little knurled wheel below the throttles, that I have already installed. The trim position indicator is a little arrow shaped affair that points right or left, immediately above the wheel. I thought that wheel was the aileron trim, but had to scratch my...

65 Chevy Stepside Now that is NICE! I learned to drive on a Chevy P10, bit earlier than that one though, a '59. I was 13 and the pickup belonged to my grandpaw. Out in the boonies nobody created a fuss about a kid in a pickup. :laugh:

Thanks for the kind comments fellas. :thumbsup We had plywood subfloors in all our machines - Beaver, Otter, DC-3's and C-46 and PBY. Christian, do you remember where the rudder trim was located? I can't, for sure. I never flew the Beech except for maybe one trip or so, we had Lockheed...

I hope Bill Gates never slept a wink! Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, sidewalls. Add a lick of paint, well primer actually, and glue in place. Repeat. Adding sidewalls does come with a down side. One is no longer able to simply place the fuselage halves down into the 'cradle' between the...

Thanks pup. I had a second post all teed up and ready to go, and windoz ate it. Bill Gates will be up all night soaking his ears in ice water.

Thank you all for the kind comments. Mike's kit is really nice, clean, crisp, no bubbles. John, do you have the float kit also, or just the C to D mod like I have? PS, I took a peek at your gallery. Holy smokes man, there's some outstanding stuff there. :thumbsup :thumbsup Well, on to the...

I had to blow that post up to 150% to read the fine print. My eyes ain't what they used to be, you know. :laugh: Re un - partially built kits. I've got a 1:72 Otter, a 1:48 PBY modified to a 28-5ACF, and a 1:72 HU-16B that I'm modifying to a 1:48 Mallard on the shelf of doom. That's the ones...