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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => Hints and Tips/Questions about modeling => Topic started by: nmroberto on June 29, 2014, 03:38:48 AM

Title: aaaaarg!
Post by: nmroberto on June 29, 2014, 03:38:48 AM

CRAP. 

Just about finished my 48th scale Eduard Pfalz D. IIIa when it got knocked off the work bench breaking the landing gear.  Now I can't find the strut pieces in the carpet monster. 

Tried cutting some new ones out of styrene sheet but they looked horrible. 

I guess I could say that the Pfalz was a top secret experimental model with retractable landing gear. 

Title: Re: aaaaarg!
Post by: kornbeef on June 29, 2014, 04:27:46 AM

 :-\ Ouch!

Sympathies. You'll have to offer sacrifice to the carpet monster and it may give up your missing parts in reaction?

Keith

Title: Re: aaaaarg!
Post by: RAGIII on June 29, 2014, 10:08:08 AM

Check out my latest post in the Hall of Shame Category.


http://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=3669.0

 I will NEVER FINISH that Pzalz. So if no other solution arrises I would be more than happy to ship you the whole thing and you can use brake fluid or whatever to separate the gear. Send me a PM if you need the kit.
RAGIII

Title: Re: aaaaarg!
Post by: ALBATROS1234 on June 29, 2014, 04:03:12 PM

i use plastruct butyryl coated wire for replaceing most kit landing gear as well as tail skids in 1/48. it is a soft/mild steel core with plastic coating. i  just bend it to shape then sand the aerodynamic shape to the strut shape. i use wire strippers to remove about 1/8" of plastic and glue the exposed steel wire into drilled holes. i got sick of breaking landing gear and tail skids.

http://www.dccsupplies.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=1733