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I am building the Special Hobbies Douglas B-18 Bolo, and am stumped on how to mount the instrument panel. The drawing of that step shows the panel mounted between the former at the front of the cockpit and the control columns. I had first assumed the panel was mounted to the throttle pedestal, but it turns out when I look closely that pedestal is mount aft of the control columns, and the panel would then obscure the controls! Anyone building that kit who has it figured out?
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
Don, have you built any DC-3/C-47's? It should be the same as the B-18 was just a big-bellied DC-3.
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I finally figured out what is going on- I believe it is a misleading idea in the instruction sheet. There are flanges molded into the left and right fuselage halves that are in just the right location for the panel. I believe the idea is to mount the panel to the left fuselage side when you mount the rest of the cockpit there. Thus it is shown to be floating in that area in the previous step, mounted in the next step. A subtle difference that was not obvious to me.
Rich, I have built several DC-3 models, but never one by Special Hobbies. Not even sure if they offer such a kit.
Special Hobby did the DC-2 but not the DC-3.
John
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That's right! I never saw a good sale price on that kit, so never bought one.
Got a real good deal on the Bolo. Sure are a bunch of windows to glue into the fuselage for a bomber. Hate that task- always afraid the window will pop into the fuselage from bad glue bond and be impossible to retrieve and glue back in :-(
I had never heard of a B-18. The B-17, of course, and wasn't there also a B-19?
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Know what you mean Don. Struggled through various SH Lodestars with that. All the old Heller kits too.
I've tried putting masking tape on th before gluing. I've tried fiddling them in after painting. On airliners with a stripe behind the windows I've tried painting the stripe before assembly, installing the windows, gluing the fuse together, masking over the stripe and the windows, then painting.
One easier but so so method is to use Krystal Klear or PVA.
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The B-18 was a bomber version of the DC-2. The 18 was soon replaced by the B-23, an extensive mod of the 18, more of a bomber version of the DC-3. I have a fond place in my heart for the 23. A few of us MDD employees in St. Louis found one rotting away on a local airport, and badgered the Company into helping donate it to the AF museum in Dayton where it now resides.
Don,
I have a few shots of the wheel well and bomb bay, of the Dayton bird, if you are interested.
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