SS Tie Bomber question

scotthothpatrol

scotthothpatrol

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Hi I am am interested at some point in building the tie bomber. at the moment I am gathering materials. I have two questions first is for those of you who build it how did you go about cutting the rectangles and the the center in the elliptical dome vhe-200? I am sure that some of you will say you 3d printed it but I don't have one of those. If some one has a spare they can part with that would be even better. The other question is what kit piece goes in the rectangle cutouts or is it a plastruct piece. It seems I saw that that piece/ pieces had some sort of ribbing to it.
thanks
Scott
 

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Check this link out http://www.x2creativos.com/pdf/tie_bomber.pdf here you will find all you need regarding the tie-bomber donor kits.
The correct Yamato part will only be found in the vintage kit(bottom/belly of the tie bomber fuselage),.the new tool kit part is different,..this also goes for the Shinano i think.
Also the saturn V kit has to be a vintage one,..the newer kit does not have the bulges on the ribbed rings.
Be carefull to cut the cones of the saturn V for the tie-bomber engines,you only get 2 of them per kit(maybe only 1 i'm not too sure anymore) but i do remember i cut them too short:facepalm
Also take good notice of the railway wheel bearings located on the inside of the bomber's wings,.they are from the Leopold railway gun,. you'll find that there are 2 kind of bearings,.they look similar but are not the same,..the difference is subttle.
 
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As I remember people talking about those rectangular pieces, I’m pretty sure the donor is The Prince of Wales ship. I think only one per kit maybe. You should have that kit because it donates another part.

People also brought up plastruct, but I’m not sure about that source.

If I were to do it, I might look for N gauge corrugated siding. It might come out to be close in appearance.
 
Yes, the Prince of Wales provides those little rectangle parts. There's 2 per kit, so 4 needed if doing all kit parts & no casts. I'm pretty sure I just scribed some styrene matched to the parts & cut the 8 needed, I couldn't tell the difference tbh!.

I cut my octagonal shape from a template & sanded correctly. One thing I would recommend is don't use the 'clear' hemispheres as it's very hard going to cut & the clarity is off putting. Use the grey hemispheres & make sure you state this when ordering.

Stu
 
Thanks Scott I ordered a Prince of Wales tree from Tamiya if the part is not on there i will use a Evergreen or Plaststruct piece

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Thanks Stu I will get the grey ones
 
Yeah on mine I used the PoW parts, I made a mold and cast the other 6 parts instead of buy 4 PoWs. I agree with Stu, get the grey hemispheres. As far as cutting the rectangles I just used a small hand held saw, like an x-acto saw and then filed them into perfection. Similarly for the center I drilled out most of the material and than followed that with small files.
 
swgeek said:
Yeah on mine I used the PoW parts, I made a mold and cast the other 6 parts instead of buy 4 PoWs. I agree with Stu, get the grey hemispheres. As far as cutting the rectangles I just used a small hand held saw, like an x-acto saw and then filed them into perfection. Similarly for the center I drilled out most of the material and than followed that with small files.
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I plan on doing lots of casting parts on this build
 
When I built mine I made a mold of a few key parts that could save you some money. The part from the 1:700 HMS Rodney, the 1:700 Yamato and the fenders from the Lee tank. I’d be happy to send it to you.... I won’t be needing it. I would just ask that you pass it on to anyone else building a 1:48 scale TIE Bomber.
 
Evansdad said:
When I built mine I made a mold of a few key parts that could save you some money. The part from the 1:700 HMS Rodney, the 1:700 Yamato and the fenders from the Lee tank. I’d be happy to send it to you.... I won’t be needing it. I would just ask that you pass it on to anyone else building a 1:48 scale TIE Bomber.
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Thanks for the offer. I actually have have most of the kits or they are on the way. The only things missing are the Stuka and the Shinano kit # 77024
 
Does any one know what these two parts are above and below the horizontal rod on the out side of the tie bomber wings. Also what size rod to use? Thanks
 

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The one on top is from the ERTL/ESCI 1/35 SDKfz 10/4, the bottom one is a ship's gun but I forget which one. I'll check my notes.
 
Thanks to swgeekI for pointing me in the right direction think I found the part for the lower piece. Thanks to the Kit Scans thread I was able to get this close up of these parts from the Tamiya 1/700 Nelson
 

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Yep, that looks right to me. Sorry I couldn't find the answer in my notes, I know I have it somewhere. glad you figured it out.
 
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