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Douglas A-20 What-If WIP
Jeffry Fontaine:
--- Quote from: apophenia on April 16, 2024, 01:57:21 AM ---Looking good, Jeff!
Is your folding-wing TB2D-1 Havoc on hold due to that wing cut issue ... or is one of these fuselages destined to go to sea?
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This project has been in and out of limbo for quite a few years. I have been on and off this project for far too many years. At one time, I had three A-20 kits all stuffed into one box and it was a major undertaking just getting the bits and pieces out of the box to a point where I could remember what I had last done with the project. I disposed of one A-20/P-70 kit to a friend of mine in Utah that also enjoys the what-if niche and that helped in sorting things out. Most of the parts have been identified for the project and included in the project box. I was toying with the idea of trying to convert from R-2600 radials to R-2800 radials but that did not pan out as the engine nacelles are a bit too short to get away with the larger R-2800 engines. That being said, the R-2800 engines from the AMT/Ertl-Italieri F9F Tigercat do fit inside the Havoc engine nacelles.
As far as going to sea, that is the intention for both Havocs at the moment. One started life as a P-70 night fighter and the other was the A-20G (four-gun nose). I sanded the feature on the P-70 nose smooth so that it can become a radar nose and will have the two cheek mounted Browning machine guns. There was some swapping of kit parts and I gave away the A-20G fuselage since it has a powered gun turret in the radio operator/rear gunner position and I was focused on a carrier strike aircraft that would need to lose some weight in order to haul bombs or torpedos with drop tanks and under-wing stores. I acquired some blister pack machine guns for the B-26 Marauder and B-25 Mitchell with the intention of using one or the other on the Havoc and the remaining set to be used with my Attack Tracker (TB2F?) since the Tracker has no room up front for a battery of any kind, side blister mounted package machine guns seemed like the best solution for both the Havoc and the Tracker projects.
MAT:
--- Quote from: Jeffry Fontaine on April 16, 2024, 06:31:18 AM ---
--- Quote from: apophenia on April 16, 2024, 01:57:21 AM ---Looking good, Jeff!
At one time, I had three A-20 kits all stuffed into one box and it was a major undertaking just getting the bits and pieces out of the box to a point where I could remember what I had last done with the project.
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To avoid ending in that kind of mess, I have a lot of boxes, in which you buy cream balls and other kind of candy. Each box contains all the pieces for one project - and only one project. It makes the building a lot easier.
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Kerick:
Keeps everything clean too. I have several projects sitting around literally collecting dust.
Jeffry Fontaine:
I have found similar containers here but the original purpose was to contain a pre-made Ceasar Salad from CostCo. One can only eat so much salad before you need to take a break from all of the roughage. Also they are not cheap so the empty containers are added only a couple times each month. End result is a nice clear plastic container that can hold a lot of project parts.
Jeffry Fontaine:
An update from last night on the inside details for the bomb bay. I discovered that the added features I had installed on the inside of the fuselage halves was interfering with the rear crew compartment bulkhead and side walls. A small oversight on my part caused by my enthusiasm to add in features, I went a bit too far in that area it would appear. While I was at it, I also removed some of the forward features that would not be visible from the bomb bay due to it being obscured by the nose wheel well bay module that fits under the cockpit floor. The height of the details was also reduce so that I could install a roof at a later date to cover the emptiness which would be an area for the fuel tanks above the bomb bay roof.
An additional strip of Evergreen plastic strip was added to the bottom of the bomb bay edges as a sort of skirt. This was done to provide more material for what would be an open area that on a real aircraft would have received some kind of additional reinforcement to give the structure some strength. There was a part in the kit that was supposed to be attached in this same area that held four bomb shapes along the sides and a pair of cross braces to fill in the front and rear. All of this was quite featureless and left the bomb bay area without much in the way of features.
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