Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Tips, Tools & Techniques => Topic started by: ChrisF on June 20, 2012, 07:32:38 AM
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What on earth do i do with a badly mishapen Hurricane Radiator !? Im building the Legato Hurricane IIc so i cant easily just email them for spare parts either !! :/
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Leave it off and build the Speed Hurricane with experimental evaporative cooling?
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Hmm...subtle whiff - substitute a Spitfire radiator?
Make a new one from modelling foam or putty?
Leading edge radiators?
Experimental Ramjet?
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How about building an annular radiator like those fitted to the Merlins on Lincoln bombers. Would look cool and save weight thanks to shorter coolant plumbing.
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2747/4167960411_8a560da82f_z.jpg?zz=1)
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While all awesome replies unfortunately this is a real world build for a magazine :(
(http://images49.fotki.com/v1510/photos/4/90504/8182378/202142368-vi.jpg)
The missing part is not a slipped cut on my part... It was moulded like that :(
Any ideas !?
:(
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Evergreen make a number of different sized styrene strip and bars, one in particular that I got is 5mm x 3mm in section and they come 300mm long. It looks like you could glue a small length of it in the gap, then file and sand it to match the shape that's already there.