1/48 FM Lockheed PV1 Ventura

by Laurent “Angus” Beauvais

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Step 2: Interior and engines

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interior

What is exactly inside this interior is subject to caution, and as very few things will be visible at the end, this is not that important.

In the radio compartment, I have added a table and a map. Cockpit seats on this photo are not drybrushed yet.

 

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Rear floor is created with plastic card. A lot of tests are necessary to find the proper dimension when fuselage is closed.

To create the inside frames, I have used a "patafix" bullet to take a print of the inside shape, and then I could draw and cut each frame on plastic card or paper. Longitudinal stringers were simply realized with aluminium tape.

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details are added: 4 water bottles, emergency trouser behind, on its left 2 parachutes, behind a bag for the light rockets.

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Last photo before closure. I am not plenty satisfied of the paint work, but it will not be very visible.
Engines

Here is the engine straight from the box, 18 cylinders to glue on each engine.

 

To detail the engine, 18 holes are drilled per engine, a wire cable is cut and glued in each hole. It is not necessary to do this for the rear cylinders, you won't see them.
After this, 2 wires are necessary per cylinder, so 72 at the end. As before, drill holes, and then glue inside a proper electric

On this photo the alignment defaults are visible, but they won't appear when the engine will be seen from the front bellow the hood

For every wire pair, one must go to the spark plug, the other behind the cylinder. To complete the engine, you must add :

·  red arrow: a thicker wire enrolled around a pen. It does make a complete revolution but start from each rear bottom cylinder. Its extremities are curved so that a smaller wire looks like exiting from them.

·Blue arrows: 2 cylinders figurating the distributors.

·Yellow arrow: A rectangular box for the magneto, a wire exiting from its right side.

·bellow: 2 cables.

The engine is ready to be mounted, now we have to work on the radiators.

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Oil radiator:

You have to engrave a vertical line and a trap on the rear. Rivet and screw holes are drilled. The front shape is reduced to lift of from the hood, and a plastic card is used to fill the hole.

 

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Seen from front, the shape is false, it should be much more triangular, but I did not corrected it. You have to create with fin plastic card the face of the radiator, glue on t in the bottom (on the picture) a piece of tissue to figure the thin holes, and 3 pieces of plastic cards are used to figure the separations.
It seems the radiator has to be positioned like this, a structure line has to be engraved (yellow line). A far as I know, the rear part should arrive flush with the gear box, but that's not an important detail.

Engine hood

This is what it looks like straight from the box and what it should be according to me.

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So you have to:

· Erase the rectangular shapes

· And then engrave them back

·Drill plenty of holes

· And separate the flaps

The air intake is done thanks to a piece of drape, but please don't say it to my wife.

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Exhaust pipe.

2 kind of exhaust pipes are furnished, the one for the French version is correct, but a little bit raw.

So let's go. First I stole a paint tube to my wife (again) to form the proper metal sheet. The hood  has been hollowed and erased so that the metal sheet does not make an over thickness.

The exhaust pipe has simply been cut in a drinking straw.

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 Next Step : Assembling the aircraft and transparent parts ...........

Photos and text © by Laurent “Angus” Beauvais