RE: [DS] Kit Bashing

ACtually, after reading about various types of WWII engines, the
placement of various cooling parts (radiator, oil cooler) and intakes
(supercharger, turbo charger) it appears that you can pretty much stick
stuff in really weird places (like the Supermarine company's entry for
the Schneider Trophy which had ribbed wings and used it as a giant
radiator with tubing running back and forth in them.)

This would justify putting a rim on the surface and turning it into an 
intake and assume that it's being ducted to the correct location.

Another option would be to sand it down slightly, to give it more curve,
then add distracting details like little vanes or pitot tubes that
obscure the line a bit.

Or you could smack a turret right on top of it and no one will notice
that you have a sharp edge there.

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don M [mailto:dmaddox1@hot.rr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:10 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: [DS] Kit Bashing
> 
> 
> Again, it HAS a boxy enough superstructure, in fact,
> TOO boxy.  I know hwat I want to do for the engines
> and wing surfaces -- it's that forward-facing fuselage
> surface that bugs me.
> 
> I was thinking of extending then tapering it
> with sheet styrene, would cammo the over
> boxy a bit......just a thought.
>