Small Scale Military Headquarters

Hi,

I eventully recieved my first 21C planes, Corsair and Stuka (you may remember my previous thread) a month after they were sent! God knows where the post office had hidden then in the mean time.

Anyway, I've opened up the Corsair and I'm trying to put it together.

I slackened the screws on the tabs of the hinge where the wings fold as was suggested to me beforehand. However the wings seem awfully stiff to locate all the way in for the down position and I reckon if I pushed them on fully, they'd never come out to fold up again.

Would it be worth enlarging the holes or trimming the tabs to make it easier for the mechanism to operate? By these I mean the smaller ones either side of the hinge mechanism.

Secondly, the horizontal stabilizers are indentical and I would have thought they should be mirror images of one another. Is this an error?

andyroo wrote:Secondly, the horizontal stabilizers are indentical and I would have thought they should be mirror images of one another. Is this an error?

On purpose in order to have fewer parts on the carrier I believe....

Ahh! I've found this drawing of an F4U-1A:

http://users.skynet.be/CORSAIR-F4U-CFS2 ... _grand.jpg

That would seem to confirm that the stabilisers should be identical.

Was this a cost measure in the design of the aircraft? One production line rather than two maybe.

digger wrote:

andyroo wrote:Secondly, the horizontal stabilizers are indentical and I would have thought they should be mirror images of one another. Is this an error?

On purpose in order to have fewer parts on the carrier I believe....

That's clever.

Thanks.

I'm having a hell of a time with my stuka wings too, somebody said they'd be tight!!!!

Got one on, but now for the second I've got nowhere to apply anyforce from the other side like I could with the first one.

I broke one wing trying to get it in. Perhaps a little cooking oil will help. Remember, once in they're not coming out....

centone wrote:sunny spot

hehehe.....maybe in couple of months!

I've got it in now, I trimmed the tabs down slightly.

As far as the Corsair wings, if you file down the small "flares" at the end of the tongue, you shouldn't have too much trouble with the wings going on or off. The stuka is a B*tch!

I'm happy your planes landed in one piece! You definately deserve it!

-Ski

Sorry....just to clarify Teamski do you mean the ones I've arrowed in red, or in black, or both?

Teamski helped me with my Stuka via the board. You just have to push it until you think it's gonna break and it will "pop" in!
And once they are in they STAY IN!

andyroo wrote:Sorry....just to clarify Teamski do you mean the ones I've arrowed in red, or in black, or both?

Yep, trim all of them down and the wings will come off a lot better. The red ones really cause the majority of damage!

Great illustration!

-Ski

Lovely.....I'll get that done, then I've got the hardest part....finding them a home!

If you don't have enough room, I'm sure the Flixton Air Museum will, hehehehehehehe.....

-Ski