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Re: Take Two - Heinkel He219 WWII German Nightfighter
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Thu, 22 Nov 2001 02:07:06 GMT
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"Gary Thomas" <thomasg@rohan.sdsu.edu> writes:
Thanks to some new parts off BrickBay and a little creative part-shuffling,
I've redone my Heinkel He-219, complete with bubble canopy, tricycle
landing-gear, and enough dark-grey plates to finally cover the wings.

To be honest, my last post looks totally lame compared to this one, so
please take a second look.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=8300

I ended up using B-Wing bubble canopies instead A-Wing ones, since the grey
transparent looked much better than white transparent.

Wow!  That's incredible!  How did you get it to balance on its wheels?
Looks like you fixed the engines too, so they don't rotate with the
prop (How'd you do it?).  Very well done.  Now if you really want a
challenge, make the landing gear retractable ;-)

The photography is quite good, too - very clear and sharp, with good
lighting.

--Bill.

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William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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     If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.



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  Re: Take Two - Heinkel He219 WWII German Nightfighter
 
(...) Thank you very much. The model is fairly front heavy (engines and all), so it balances very easily on the tricycle landing-gear. I did have to shift the side gear to towards the rear of the plane in order to balance properly. As for the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.military)

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  Take Two - Heinkel He219 WWII German Nightfighter
 
Thanks to some new parts off BrickBay and a little creative part-shuffling, I've redone my Heinkel He-219, complete with bubble canopy, tricycle landing-gear, and enough dark-grey plates to finally cover the wings. To be honest, my last post looks (...) (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.military)

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