The featured Piper is a J3C but maybe this will help anyway...

(see the wing base at 0:40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-SwAFMwN2A

H.P.

Restoration picture :



from this blog

H.P.

H.P. I appreciate the efforts, I truly do but I am in search of a photo of the end of the wing itself when it is off the plane.

I hope to model the wing root as accurately as possible. From what I understand there is a steel "I" beam protruding out about 20 inches - this is the wing spar itself. Then there are some control rods/pipes and some wiring.

All this hardware precludes the base of the wing itself from being pushed all the way forward into the corner of the CCKW load box when the aircraft is broken down for loading.

Thanks everyone!

I must have misread your request

What about these ?






H.P.

Perfect! These photos have evaded me so far in my search.

Thank You!

Made some painting and lettering progress on the Piper this weekend:


Italeri hard cab mounted on a Tamiya CCKW chassis.

How easy/difficult was it to drop the Italeri cab onto the Hobby Boss frame? Were there any modifications needed, or the need to build up areas?

This is a conversion I very much want to do, so I am interested in hearing all the gory details!!!

Steven, Evan, It is a fairly easy change out. One thing though - the Italeri fenders have an oil pan cast between them. You have to glue in some cross-wise spacer bars front and rear and then cut away this oil pan to make room for the Tamiya or HobbyBoss* full engine.

Of course you could skip this step and just use the Italeri oil pan and not have a full engine.

Here are some other threads that also address this subject:

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/246696&ord=&page=1

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/225302

http://armorama.com/forums/242646&ord=&page=1

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/203281&ord=1&page=36


* If you pitch out the squashed HobbyBoss cab and overly long HB front fenders the rest of the vehicle seems to be dead-on to scale and an otherwise beautiful piece of work. After that the other problems involved in the conversion should be minor. Be sure to save the HB firewall. It is maybe the best in the business!

Example of Italeri hard cab mounted on Tamiya fenders and then placed on a HobbyBoss SWB Deuce chassis:

I don't recommend using all three manufacturer's products for the cab conversion. I am doing it here but it is a little more fiddly than just using the entire Italeri cab and fenders for the conversion. Also here I have cut the hood open to see that nice HB engine so I had to extend the top of the firewall a bit.)



Here is that nice HobbyBoss firewall I spoke of:


The stock HobbyBoss SWB Deuce chassis ready for cab installation: