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                        Ventura to Lodestar

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                        Don Stauffer
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                          November 2009
                        • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
                        Ventura to Lodestar
                        Posted by Don Stauffer on Friday, October 14, 2016 3:54 PM

                        I see Revell is coming out with a 1:48 Ventura.  If it is a good kit, I am wondering if it could be converted to a Lodestar.  The rear lower fuselage would need to be heavily modified, and the nose windows would have to be filled in, but those mods look doable.  Anything else that would be more of a problem?

                        Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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                        jeaton01
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Northern California
                        Posted by jeaton01 on Friday, October 14, 2016 5:02 PM

                        Won't that be the same as the PV-1 kit, Don, and not new plastic?  I think there are cowl differences and of course the lack of eyebrow windows.  Lodestars were built with both Wright and Paratt & Whitney engines, like the DC-3 sore there is that to consider with respect to the cowls.  The Lodestar has always been more interesting to me than the military derivatives.

                        John

                        To see build logs for my models:  http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html

                         

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