Dragon ME262A1/U4 issue

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

OK, I've been building this kit over the past week and now that I have attached the landing gear, it will come as no suprise to anyone whos built it before, its tail heavy. After now reading some forums about other kits everyones put nose weights in prior to sealing the frame up, well I'm at the finishing post so I need some advice as to how if at all possible I can fix this?

I've thought of drilling a small hole and droppping lead shot in, or perhaps my safer idea is to make a set of wheel choks and place at the front but have some blutac under to hold the nose down, oh I should mention its not going onto a diorama so no scope to glue it down.

Adrian

[AlanG]

Could you not drill a hole in the front undercarriage bay, add the weights and then seal it back up?

[papa 695]

Hi Adrian you could mount it on some clear rod onto a wooden base to make it look like its flying/coming into land [ATTACH]49636.vB[/ATTACH] Like this ?

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[Guest]

Had to look on t'interweb to find out what it looked like (aircraft dimwit here) .......

.... anyway does yours have the huge gun sticking out the front?? if so then you could scratch build one of these out of metal pipe and fill it with diddy lead shot or soldering wire, just glue the muzzle brake from the original on the end.

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Could you not drill a hole in the front undercarriage bay, add the weights and then seal it back up?

I've thought about this my only concern is the amount of space where I need to drill there is a gun compartment behind it so not sure what amount of weight I could squeeze in.

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Had to look on t'interweb to find out what it looked like (aircraft dimwit here) ........... anyway does yours have the huge gun sticking out the front?? if so then you could scratch build one of these out of metal pipe and fill it with diddy lead shot or soldering wire, just glue the muzzle brake from the original on the end.

Oh thats an idea, never done anything like that so could be a challange for my limited skills Not sure how much weight it would add either, its sitting pretty heavy on its back end.

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Hi Adrian you could mount it on some clear rod onto a wooden base to make it look like its flying/coming into land [ATTACH=CONFIG]49636[/ATTACH] Like this ?

I'd have a go but would cock it up no doubt, also the finer modelers on here would point out the flaps etc, could always say its failed

[papa 695]

Another way with clear rod just put a length of rod under the tail so it keeps it up

[stona]

If you fix it to a base you can attach the nose wheel to the base very simply.

Drill a small hole in the bottom of the nose wheel and glue in a length of fine wire. How long depends on the next step.

Drill a corresponding hole in the base and glue the wire into this hole,or pull the wire right through and glue it underneath,effectively holding down the nose by either method. This depends on what you are using as a base.

Job done,and you have a nice little mini dio!

Cheers

Steve

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

That may be the case, just asking where could I get a base from, nothing too fancy just something I can add a little grass to

[stona]

That may be the case, just asking where could I get a base from, nothing too fancy just something I can add a little grass to

See if you can get alittle picture frame. I got the one for my Fw 190 from a pound shop.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

Picture frames, old pieces of wood, cork place mats, bits of slate or even lumps of rock/concrete make decent bases.

If you have some balsa wood you can make a base easily to size.

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Gonna go look for a photo frame tomorrow, any tips on the grass ?

[Guest]

cidatels grass works well, i used it on my I-16 display

Just paint the base with PVA then pick up clumps with tweezers and plonk it down randomly

[Guest]

If you fix it to a base you can attach the nose wheel to the base very simply.Drill a small hole in the bottom of the nose wheel and glue in a length of fine wire. How long depends on the next step.

Drill a corresponding hole in the base and glue the wire into this hole,or pull the wire right through and glue it underneath,effectively holding down the nose by either method. This depends on what you are using as a base.

Job done,and you have a nice little mini dio!

Cheers

Steve

This is where my vote would go. Even if you didn't want to make a dio - a nice bit of varnished pine or similar would give you a cracking finish

HTH

Stuart