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Modified Anson

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#15
March 07, 2009, 08:28:02 PM Last Edit: March 07, 2009, 08:30:50 PM by seavixen
Not much doing today. Spent a few hours getting rid of the fabric effect from the fuselage, wings and tailplane.
Tomorrow I'll be filling the gun turret aperture and taking a bit of a change in direction from the original game plan.
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seavixen

#16
March 09, 2009, 12:35:12 PM
A little update.

I've fabricated a very basic interior and given it a coat of interior green.  The instrument panel has been moved towards the pilot by 5mm and I've scratched a very basic seat.
Control yoke has yet to be fitted. Will add some seat belts too. The gun turret aperture has been filled and I've started to remove the fabric detail from the fuselage.
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Weaver

#17
March 10, 2009, 05:42:29 AM
Seavixen: looking good....  :thumbsup:

Is there any chance you do me a small favour? If you still have the turret, could you measure it's diameter and let me know please? Many thanks....
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Riksbar

#18
March 11, 2009, 02:52:06 PM
I always remember an old collegue of my mother's who claimed responsibility for the Anson's longevity.  He had worked in the production planning department at Avro's in the early fifties.   The legacy wartime contract on the Anson stipulated that the RAF would buy whatever Anson spares they produced, hence, whenever there was spare capacity or a lull in another programme he had the factory making Anson parts. 
By the time the Air ministry realised, they had enough Anson spares for it to still be flying now. So you could go with a glass cockpit ISTAR bird over Afghanistan.  I think it's already fly by wire. ;D
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seavixen

#19
March 12, 2009, 08:59:21 AM
Bit more work done. I've finished the cockpit (control yoke is too close to the panel  :roll: ) and also reshaped the nose to a more pointed profile.
I'm using a strip of plasticard to raise the fuselage height a little bit.



Quote from: Weaver on March 10, 2009, 05:42:29 AM
Seavixen: looking good....  :thumbsup:

Is there any chance you do me a small favour? If you still have the turret, could you measure it's diameter and let me know please? Many thanks....

No problem, it's 14mm  :thumbsup:
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Weaver

#20
March 12, 2009, 09:24:27 AM
Cheers Seavixen!  :thumbsup:
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