Thanks Lance!
And grab that Gotha if its a good price. The last one I was offered , with the GV conversion was over $400CAD. Needless to say I passed.
Still interested in a GV conversion at a decent price...
I'll be pretty clear about 'informed licence' whenever it is going to show up , I'm not tryna 'fabricate' details.
As far as the oil tank goes , last nights research of the 3 available pics (only one useable ) that have a Gotha oil tank in them revealed a mount. That would be pic # 36 on page16 in your Gotha! programme.
There is very obviously an inverted 'V' mount off the lower front of the tank. This would suffice for me , even though it is a post war mail plane. Perhaps the original mount broke and this is the fix.
Unfortunately WNW has the oil tank further to the inside of the engine pod. So I'll have to cut off the filler neck , cut off the oil tank , fabricate a mount as shown and re-position the oil tank farther out and re-attaching the filler neck. This will be for the exposed engine so it will not have to have the panels match up to the mods. It wont be so different than the closed up engine for looks , and I wont have a hovering oil tank any more. I think this was done by WNW to work within the plastic thickness and at least have an oil tank for us.
All this mind-numbing figuring out of the open engine area is due to the fact that this is the most concentrated detail and parts interaction on the whole kit , the fit is very good , the parts are very good and exposing the engine detail is requiring extreme concentration and parts familiarity.
All of the parts have to be worked with together to get it right.
Today I bit the bullet and cut the front and rear panels. Again a huge amount of thought has gone into the work and I used the finest blade of my razor saw.
One easy:
One not so easy:
Pretty rough!
But I'll sort it out, after all its only plastic...I'll just add this in here.
Here are the cut front /back engine pod panels. They have been cleaned up and drilled out all of the screws , the front lower radiater drain slot ( some trouble there at the top , a very small hoop of plastic ) and thinning out beginning:
An issue right away if doing this , the rear wing struts are actually mounted in the rear top cowl , so something will have to be done there. Also the rear lower cowl does not reach the vertical rear bulkhead, nothing a strip of plastic wont solve. Pics to follow as my camera battery quit.