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Boarding ladder for Monogram 1/48th scale C-47?

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Posted by Drew Cook on Wednesday, December 27, 2017 2:45 PM

Thank you, Art.  I really appreciate it!

-- Drew

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Posted by goldhammer on Friday, December 15, 2017 5:34 PM

Got email, will dig out kit and get it out in mail, prob not till Wed-Thur.

 

Happy to help out, just paying forward the parts and help I've gotten from others here.

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Posted by Drew Cook on Friday, December 15, 2017 3:12 PM

Thank you, goldhammer!  We 1953 babies (I'm 8/29/53) have to stick together...email with my address on the way.  Thanks again!

-- Drew

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Posted by goldhammer on Thursday, December 14, 2017 3:52 PM

Drew-  Have the kit and not using the ladder, yours for nothing, PM me your mailing addy and I'll send it on out to you, might take a couple of days.

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Posted by Drew Cook on Thursday, December 14, 2017 12:08 PM

Guys,The C-47 boarding ladder I was talking about -- and want -- is included in Monogram's 1/48th scale AC-47D Gunship ("Spooky/"Puff The Magic Dragon") kit.

If anyone's willing to part with this...part...I'd be willing to part with $5 for one.

Thanks. 

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Posted by Drew Cook on Wednesday, August 27, 2014 12:16 PM

richs26 (and stikpusher),

Correct-- that's the (military) boarding ladder I was talking about.

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, August 8, 2014 10:47 AM

Yes, I know the C-47 boarding ladder that he was asking about. I am pretty familiar with the aircraft.

 

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Posted by richs26 on Friday, August 8, 2014 12:30 AM

Stik, this is what he wants:

www.alternatehistory.com/.../showthread.php

http://battered-bastards.tumblr.com/

Scroll down for paratroop pics

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Posted by stikpusher on Thursday, August 7, 2014 11:16 PM

No, I just looked up the DC-3 instructions online and it has the boarding ladder built into the passenger door.

 

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Posted by MKelley on Thursday, August 7, 2014 7:38 PM

You just described the ladder that is in the AC-47 kit from Monogram.

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Posted by Drew Cook on Thursday, August 7, 2014 7:24 PM

stikpusher,

Do you know if the Monogram DC-3's boarding ladder was the military version (short, three-step, did not reach the ground, side plates holed for weight reduction) or a different, civilian version?

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Posted by stikpusher on Wednesday, August 6, 2014 2:32 AM

I think only the DC-3 release of the kit may have come with a boarding ladder, not the C-47 version.

 

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Posted by Drew Cook on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 9:58 PM

Curt: This is beyond my (non-existant) scratch-building skills, and,

MKelley: As far as I'm aware, the Monogram C-47 never had an accurate boarding ladder as a kit part.

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Posted by MKelley on Monday, August 4, 2014 5:51 AM

It would be the kit part.

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Posted by crkrieser on Sunday, August 3, 2014 4:35 PM

I have two of these kits in stash for a future build.  Why not just scratch build a boarding ladder???

Curt

US Army, Retired

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Posted by Drew Cook on Sunday, August 3, 2014 1:49 PM

Thanks, MKelley...who made it, if you don't mind my asking?

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Posted by MKelley on Sunday, August 3, 2014 7:45 AM

Let me look through my extra parts I may have one.

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Boarding ladder for Monogram 1/48th scale C-47?
Posted by Drew Cook on Saturday, August 2, 2014 11:24 PM

Can anyone tell me if an (accurate) after-market boarding ladder for the Monogram 1/48th scale C-47 was 
ever made, either in brass photo-etch or resin?  And if so, who made it?

That was (is) the only part missing from that kit -- all those little paratroopers standing around, with no ladder to board the plane with!   

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