CB's Monogram 1/48 A-1H Skyraider Build

[cbaltrin]

Outstanding work! Someday, when i grow up.....

You just had a birthday Lyle -- no more excuses..

[cbaltrin]

You diving deep into this one! Beautiful work on the driver. Are you making your own barrels from telescoping brass tubing, or did you buy those pre made? Very interesting about the pencil rub onto graph paper for the canopy mask…

I have some photos of an A-4 Skyhawk gunsight for reference if you’re interested…

Thanks Carlos! Guns are prefab-- master model or something like that.. Reference photos are always welcome!
Oh,yea, the pencil rub is on Tamiya tape -- I just scanned it in grayscale...

[Stikpusher]

Very interesting about the scan from tape. Ingenious!

Here is the sight off of a Skyhawk that one of the guys brought into an AMPS meet a few years ago

[cbaltrin]

Very interesting about the scan from tape. Ingenious!

Great pictures Carlos , thanks!

[Stikpusher]

You're welcome Chris. It was cool in that if you shined a bright light up the mount tube, the aiming reticle would project onto the sight glass.

[LyleW]

Okay, how did you get a pencil rubbing to scan?

[cbaltrin]

You're welcome Chris. It was cool in that if you shined a bright light up the mount tube, the aiming reticle would project onto the sight glass.

Very cool!

[cbaltrin]

Okay, how did you get a pencil rubbing to scan?

• Place tape on canopy

• Rub raised detail with pencil

• remove tape from canopy

• stick tape to index card (dont smudge the pencil!)

• put index card on scanner

• scan

[cbaltrin]

The new fuse prototype is 'Sarge Approved'.
Styrene rod, strip of aluminum from soda can, tiny .2mil punched styrene disk for the end cap.

[cbaltrin]

Well I tried to make my Mk VIII gunsight look as much like a Skyraider sight as I could. I added a big knob on the left side and a rectangular plate as the base of the glass...which I am not sure is right now that I am thinking about it...

Now I can get the cockpit installed finally and then the wing can go on.