I seem to be going round in circles with scratch building these seats for the rear section of my huey. Its my first attempt at scratch building, i want to get it right and i could really do with some expert advice off you guys.
The problem i have is im building a 1/32 slick and i cant seem to work out the right scale for the seat poles and support poles, i have managed to get hold of some copper tubing in a few sizes and thought i had it cracked but i havnt.
Going by the photos i have seen, the two support poles that usualy have smoke grenades hanging off them are the thickest, then there is the hollow tube on both sides that supports the back rests of the main bench seat and rests in the support poles, seperating the door gunner from the main cargo/troop section this looks slightly thinner than the main support poles it rests in.
Then there are the poles at the make up the front and back of the benches that have the canvass stretched over them to make up the seat, im not sure but is the rear pole thinner than the front pole?
Then there are the arched poles under the seats and the poles that rest on the floor.
To many poles
The trouble is the copper tubing i found that looks spot on for the 2 hollow poles that cut across the main support poles is about 3 times thicker than the support poles they are supposed to rest in (the support poles that come with the revell 1/32 kit) so im baffled.
Please someone put me out of my misery and let me know what size tubes to use for what poles, should i scrap the support poles that came with the kit and make thicker ones or give up and take up knitting lol.
I hope this post isnt to confusing lol il try and add some pictures to show what i mean, i would love to finaly get this problem sorted as its been holding me up for ages.
If you can give me an idea whats the best size to use for the hollow poles you can see in the last 2 pictures in 1/32 scale i may be able to work out the size of the other poles from that but im pretty poo with measurements so if anyone could do the hard work for me that would be great
many thanks
Andy
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