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Building the most extreme cockpit possible

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Building the most extreme cockpit possible
Posted by BrandonK on Thursday, July 17, 2014 10:27 PM

Wow is all I can say. Take a look at this.

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal4/3301-3400/gal3395_F-4E_Greutert/00.shtm

On the bench:

A lot !! And I mean A LOT!!

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Posted by Milairjunkie on Friday, July 18, 2014 5:59 AM

Now that is something very impressive!

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Posted by Texgunner on Friday, July 18, 2014 7:17 AM

I remember seeing an online article about this F4 many years ago.  The entire aircraft is an amazing piece of work.


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Posted by bvallot on Friday, July 18, 2014 8:22 AM

Yeah, I saw this when researching the F4 Phantom I'm building.  At 1:48 it's just too small to pull all of this off.  I imagine it's a tight fit at 1:32!! =]  Plus, does anybody know a place to get fiber optics for cheap...cause it ain't.

But A-mazing.  For sure.

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Tamiya F4U-1  Kenneth Walsh

 

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Posted by Don Stauffer on Friday, July 18, 2014 8:40 AM

Nylon monofilament can work for fiber optic use, for the short runs in a typical model.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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Posted by bvallot on Friday, July 18, 2014 11:48 AM

How's that?

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Tamiya F4U-1  Kenneth Walsh

 

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Posted by wing_nut on Friday, July 18, 2014 3:48 PM

Only one thing to do after seeing that... Sell all my stuff and take up knitting.

Marc  

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Posted by mississippivol on Friday, July 18, 2014 6:08 PM

I don't think I can even get that right now, Wing_nut...

cml
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Posted by cml on Friday, July 18, 2014 6:11 PM

That is offensively impressive!!!! I have no idea how people can be so talented.

Chris

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Posted by Raualduke on Friday, July 18, 2014 6:16 PM

Can anybody do a hotlink to the site.I'd love to look at it,but I'm a computer idiot

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Posted by Greg on Friday, July 18, 2014 7:07 PM

My goodness. Kinda feel like what Wing_nut said.

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Posted by wing_nut on Friday, July 18, 2014 7:22 PM

Marc  

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Posted by Don Stauffer on Saturday, July 19, 2014 9:32 AM

The most impressive cockpit I ever saw was in a larger scale- either 1:24 or 1:16, forget which.  All the flight controls worked- rudder, elevators and ailerons!  Move the stick  or rudder bar and the controls moved.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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Posted by Raualduke on Saturday, July 19, 2014 4:05 PM

Thank you wing_nut

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Posted by troublemaker66 on Sunday, July 20, 2014 2:59 PM

There is an Asian guy, may be Japanese or Korean , that makes fully functioning models out of metal, all scratch built from the real aircraft`s plans....I saw the Mustang that he made and I thought he was going to build a B-17...very impressive, maybe the same guy Don was talkng about.

Len Pytlewski

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Posted by Raualduke on Sunday, July 20, 2014 4:21 PM

What scale?

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Posted by BrandonK on Sunday, July 20, 2014 4:33 PM

That is a 1/32 Revell F-4E Cockpit.  

On the bench:

A lot !! And I mean A LOT!!

2024 Kits on deck / in process / completed   

                         14 / 5 / 2  

                              Tongue Tied

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