Scratchbuilding AWACS dish (?!?)

Anonymous

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November 2005

Scratchbuilding AWACS dish (?!?)

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 9, 2004 5:58 PM

OK, so I got the 1/72 Hasegawa kit yesterday,a nd all looks good. Except for the flash around the prop, but that is really not that big of a detail. Here is my question for all of you scratch-builder gurus out there. I would like to convert this to having a AWACS dish on top, but for the life of me, I cannot thnk of anything to use as the dish, and how I will go about building the support frame. I have NEVER scratch-built anything, and any suggestions anyone has are greatly appreciated.

Thank you all, hope the weekend is great for one and all!
Smile [:)]

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 9, 2004 5:59 PM

I just realised that I did not say what type of aircraft this is. P-3 Orion trying to convert from Naval, to Customs aircraft. Sorry for the confusion...

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 9, 2004 7:07 PM

I dont understand what you are trying to build...

The P3 orion dosent carrey the AWACS dish. only the 707 aka AWACS...

Are you confusing (somehow, on alongshot) with the Hawkeye?
Maybe you can post photos of what you want or send us to a link.

If you really want a dish in 1:72 scale and dont want to scratch build you can get the awacs heller kit.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 9, 2004 7:19 PM

O.K. my bad...
I googled it and found this:
http://www.topedge.com/panels/aircraft/sites/kopack/p3-6.html

From this picture I dont think you need an AWACS dish, but you will need the hawkeye dish.
Hasegawa nad Fujimi realesed the Hawkeye kit in 1:72 somewhere around the 80's maybe you should look for these kits at ebay and so on...
These kits offcourse includes the mounting as well

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 9, 2004 7:21 PM

here's one at ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1189&item=3186656301&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
there are two more overthere, hope this helps.

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philp

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December 2002
From: USA

Posted by philp on Saturday, April 10, 2004 3:54 AM

It is also in production again.
Available at www.greatmodels.com

1/72 fu72069 Grumman E-2C Hawkeye 'Screen Tops'

Phil Peterson IPMS #8739 Join the Map http://www.frappr.com/finescalemodeler

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 12, 2004 9:32 AM

There is another thread just titled P-3 Orion. If you put that title into the search field, you can pull up one of the responses with a pic of an Orion with an AWACS dish. Also, there are some links listed as well which have some more great shots. I would just post the photos, but I have not figured it out yet, and it is early with no coffee...:-) Thanks again everyone for your help, I appreciate it!

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 12, 2004 9:40 AM

Here's a thought...could you carve the housing (the dish is really contained in the housing...it's there for aerodynamic drag) out of a stryofoam block, seal that, paint and glue it on? That why it would be really easy to cut and sand out the complex curves..sealing it into to a smooth/flat surface might be a challenge though. For the struts, you can glue some strips of styrene together for thickness/width and then trim it down. Either way, you will need som really good reference pictures.
---ken

QUOTE: Originally posted by mbolz

OK, so I got the 1/72 Hasegawa kit yesterday,a nd all looks good. Except for the flash around the prop, but that is really not that big of a detail. Here is my question for all of you scratch-builder gurus out there. I would like to convert this to having a AWACS dish on top, but for the life of me, I cannot thnk of anything to use as the dish, and how I will go about building the support frame. I have NEVER scratch-built anything, and any suggestions anyone has are greatly appreciated.

Thank you all, hope the weekend is great for one and all!

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 12, 2004 2:05 PM

That is a great Idea, I had been thinking about working the dish to be hollow, but the styrene just makes more sense. I think I may go with that, and move forward. I have not actually started building yet, I just stare att he open box thinking "what have I gotten myself into?", but I will try to post photos as progress is made.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 12, 2004 2:41 PM

Glad to hear you have taken the big step Mbolz Big Smile [:D]

. I have nothing to add to the good suggestions given by the people above, but maybe I can be of assistance in the future? I'll sure keep an eye out for your progress reports. Happy modeling Cool [8D]

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garys

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June 2003
From: Philadelphia, PA

Posted by garys on Tuesday, April 13, 2004 5:06 PM

Hi Mbolz,
Get the Fujimi kit, it will make your life so much easier. Any version Fujimi did will work for you, so search Ebay for an old release, like an E-2A. Also this was released in the US by Testors and these always fall through the Ebay cracks, just ought one for $6. Heller also just rereleased this with French markings. Good luck.

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