IDF Bonanza 35 1948
Beech Bonanza bomber
- Skala:
- 1:72
- Status:
- Påbegynt
- Påbegynt:
- February 1, 2021
Backdate Arii kit to 1947 model 35 Bonanza.
Fill rear windows. Four bench seats, front is split back.
Instrument panel as is is wrong, make dual control yokes -
Fill in concave wing tips, Correct dihedral for vee tail planes is 30 degrees.
Remove landing light on front of cowling, fill in vents on port cowling panel, open up cowling intakes, badly undersized.
Open right door, use donor kit for spare parts and new right door.
Left front window vent.
Vacuform new glass, kit pieces all terribly undersized
Center strut interior face of windscreen
Source RAF style bomb racks from Spitfire or Hurricane kits? -Maybe a Mosquito?
Round off tail cone
Rescribe from original line drawings
Box out gear wells
Original paint was silver with red stripes, red ruddervators and ailerons- Camo is thin and hastily applied.
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Casey BeckettDonor kit for opened right door, second bench seat. Filling in concave wingtips, opening cow flaps, remove rear windows, open cowling face, remove lights from cowling face and nose gear, scratch build instrument panel with twin center mount yokes, sourcing RAF bomb racks and 220lb bombs from an Eduard Spitfire kit, bob tail cone, boxout landing gear bays, correct too long retraction struts, fill in vents on lower left cowl, add center brace in windscreen. Fun. Great old little kits! Working from a few blurry B/W photos of the two Model 35s brought into Israel by a South African fellow named Boris Senior.
Casey BeckettYeah.. gettin a bit carried away, my Missus tells me. But it keeps me out of the bar!
Casey BeckettCabin almost done. Built control column and yokes from stainless rod and brass cut cut and soldered. Gloss coat, brown pin wash, then flat coat, touch of KristalKleer on dial faces. Started final fit checks, noticed HUGE gap between floor and left side... OOPS. Still, progress!
Rear bulkhead is a plug of wood epoxy stiffed inside fuselage, (let dry two full days) ,then cut and sanded to shape. Worked pretty well, so did the same on my Heller Ouragan build.
Casey BeckettLot of work in cabin, fuselage closed, lots of filler for poor fitting nose area. Wings and tail now on, bit more sanding and primer this weekend.
