P-47 gun barrels

Tom, I get my tubing (needles) from a vet. If you go in and explain to them what you want them for and say you want a fairly large size, there's no way they would think you are a junkie. No body would poke themselves with the size of needles they use to poke animals with

Leon

I concur with Jeeves and check the current issue of FSM. Besides the Tarmac gun tubes, GreatModels sells a wide selection of aluminum and styrene tubing.

shark...

If you check this months FSM (Or the GSM issue), in the ad for GM on the bottom left,, they show Tarmac having a set of tubes for use in machine guns and cannons...here is the link to it:

http://www.greatmodels.com/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=tar48506

Tom,
Pearl Paint on canal has a bunch (5th flr, IIRC). Sam Flax and Charettes also carries brass/alum. tubing. There is also America's hobby center on 30th between 9th and 10th Ave's.
Closer to home, take the "G" to clinton and washington. There is an art store that serves Pratt Institute on dekalb ave between hall and washington ave.

The cheapest would be Pearl Paint.

Small Parts in Florida carries all types of tubing, sheet metal and other goodies. Here is their web site.

http://www.smallparts.com/

This brings up a question that's been bugging me for some time. Where can I get good aluminum tubing suitable for the small-bore a/c cannon barrels, machine guns, as well as the outer part of the pitot tube (into which you slip a length of wire). While it is legal now in NY to buy a small number of syringes in the pharmacy, the number is strictly limited and so is the size. Also, if you request them, you are assumed to be a junkie. On the other hand, the shylock who owns NYC's one and only LHS sells tubing in two sizes at the price of 50 cents per inch. That doesn't sound like much, but after some thought, you begin to realize it is a lot for what you are getting and what it cost him. So, where do you go to get long sections of tubing that can be cut to the desired length?
TOM

Yep, they are aluminum blast tubes, not barrels.

I used aluminum tubes cut to scale on this Hasegawa jug, for the tamiya bubble top I used the kit parts.

LOL Steve

They aren't the gun barrels, they are blast tubes. But anyway, they should be a silver color.

Regards, Rick

Excellent photos. Thanks for the info.

Yes it is. Check this site for some photos.

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=Republic%20P-47%20Thunderbolt&distinct_entry=true