Deagostini Douglas DC3 User guide

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Model: Douglas DC3

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The Deagostini Douglas DC3 is a comprehensive model-building kit that allows you to construct a detailed replica of the iconic aircraft. With its intricate design, this kit is perfect for experienced modelers seeking a challenging and rewarding project. The kit includes all the necessary components, such as finely detailed plastic parts, clear instructions, and decals, to create an authentic representation of the DC3. Once assembled, the model boasts a wingspan of 450mm and features realistic markings and panel lines.

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The many lives of the DC-3™

While the twin-engined Douglas™

was disappearing from the scene

as an operational aircraft, it was

becoming increasingly famous.

The iconic DC-3 now held a place

in the public imagination, thanks

partly to its appearances in ﬁlms

and comics, on stamps, coins,

playing cards and postcards.

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Complete the right wing and

two engines, and ﬁt them

to the fuselage.

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The many lives of the DC-3

While gradually disappearing as an

operational aircraft, the DC-3,

both as a civilian and a military plane, was

occupying an altogether more permanent

place in the public’s imagination.

Few aircraft over the years have

acquired its iconic status and few have

succeeded in characterising a period

as the twin-engined Douglas has done.

Immortalised in many famous films, it has

also appeared in comic strips, on stamps

and playing cards and all kinds of other

objects, from ephemera such as postcards

and advertisements to smartphone covers.

A Lisunov Li-2 belonging to the Russian airline

Aeroﬂot. The Li-2, originally designated PS-84

(passenger aeroplane 84), was a version of the

Douglas DC-3 built under licence at Factory

#84 in Khimki in Moscow and, after that site’s

wartime evacuation in 1941, at a factory in

Tashkent. The plane was named after the

director of the project, aeronautical engineer

Boris Pavlovich Lisunov.

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A Dakota and, in the

background, the Rock of

Gibraltar, photographed at

the beginning of October

1943. The C-47’s game-

changing role in World War

II was enough to guarantee

its success in the post-war

ﬁlm industry. A central

element in all historical

reconstructions, it is still

an object of fascination

today, as illustrated

by its appearances in,

for instance, Steven

Spielberg’s Saving Private

Ryan (1998) and in the

Spielberg-produced TV

series Band of Brothers.

Above, paratroops being dropped from C-47s

during World War II. The photograph shows the

campaign in Markham Valley, New Guinea, which

took place in September 1943. Concealed by a

smokescreen, the men attacking Nadzab airport

are the United States 503rd Parachute Infantry

Regiment and the 2nd/4th Field Regiment of the

Australian Army. After World War II, ex-service

C-47s were readily available and they were used

frequently in movies.

All this is because, almost 80 years after

going into service, the DC-3 continues

to have numerous admirers, among

both aircraft enthusiasts and the general

public. This enthusiasm is not about to

diminish, in view of the number of DC-

3s still operational and the number of

organisations involved in restoring and

flying old aircraft.

The DC-3 and the film industry

The DC-3 has attracted the attention of

film-makers since it first appeared in the

skies. In 1938, the twin-engine Douglas

made an appearance in Test Pilot, directed

by Victor Fleming; in 1938, in Ninotchka,

(dir. Ernst Lubitsch); in 1940, in My Favorite

Wife (dir. Garson Kanin) and the following

year in Meet John Doe (dir. Frank Capra).

Also in 1941, with subtle references to the

ongoing WWII, it appeared in Emergency

Landing (dir. William Beaudine), and in

Flying Blind (dir. Frank McDonald), then in

1942 in Crossroads (dir. Jack Conway).

But it had not yet reached the peak of its

success. Between the late 1940s and the

mid-1950s, the DC-3 continued to appear

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in films, mainly to add local colour to stories

set in the previous decade (Casbah, dir.

John Berry, 1948), or popping up in more

modern pieces such as Roman Holiday

(dir. William Wyler, 1953) and Written on

the Wind (dir. Douglas Sirk, 1956).

But what really raised the DC-3 to cult

status were the great reconstructions

of the events in Word War II. Films such

as The Longest Day (1962) and The

Battle of the Bulge (1965) (both dir. Ken

Annakin), Patton (dir. Franklin Schaffner,

1970) and A Bridge Too Far (dir. Richard

Attenborough, 1977) popularised the C-47

and reinforced its enduring status as a

‘technical icon’ of the war in Europe.

The DC-3 on

stamps and coins

The DC-3 has found a place in many

spheres of interest, and it has proven

very popular among the devotees of

philately and numismatics – that is, the

collecting of stamps and coins. At least 95

countries have issued stamps depicting

the DC-3 or the C-47 (including versions

such as the Lisunov Li-2 and the Nakajima

L2D). These include Afghanistan, Cuba,

Egypt, the Philippines, Germany, Iceland,

Jersey, Panama, Turkey, the Unites States,

Switzerland and Venezuela. Stamps

showing the DC-2 have been issued by

15 countries (including Curaçao, Finland,

Japan and the Dutch Indies), and in some

cases also the DC-1 (for instance, Samoa).

This is without taking into account other

products such as postcards, leaflets,

envelopes and special cancellations.

In numismatics, there have been various

commemorative issues. Coins representing

the twin-engined Douglas have been issued

by, among others, the Isle of Man (1 crown,

copper and nickel, 1995), the Republic of the

Congo, formerly Congo Brazzaville (500 and

1,000 francs, both in silver in 2002, and a

500-franc coin showing the DC-2, in silver,

2004,) and by the Solomon Islands (25

dollars, silver, 2003, as well as a gold-plated

version in a limited edition).

A DC-2 with TWA livery,

which is now at the Museum

of Flight in Seattle. The

present state of the aircraft is

the result of a long restoration

project, started in 1982 by

members of the Douglas

Historical Foundation and

completed in 2007 under the

supervision of the staff of the

museum. After its restoration

was completed, the aircraft

was ﬂown to its present

location from Van Nuys,

California, with stopovers in

Sacramento, California, and

Eugene, Oregon.

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More aircraft at the 1985 Royal International Air

Tattoo at Fairford. In the centre of the photograph

is C-47A N53ST/531323/53-T (c/n 9380) ‘Col.

Michael C. Thomas’ (1942), now on display at

Luke Air Force Base, Phoenix, Arizona. Behind it,

in the distance, there is a glimpse of C-47A-70-DL

PH-DDA (c/n 19109, 1943) of the Dutch Dakota

Association, and in the foreground, top left, is the

nose of R4D-6 N151ZE (c/n 50783), built at the

Douglas plant in Oklahoma City in October 1944.

Close-up of C-47A PH-

DDA of the Dutch Dakota

Association at the Royal

International Air Tattoo at

Fairford, England, in 1985.

On 25 September 1996,

PH-DDA crashed into the sea

near Texel (one of the West

Frisian Islands, off the coast

of the Netherlands), causing

the deaths of all 32 people on

board. Visible at the bottom

right of the photograph is

the rudder of DC-3A 191A

N4565L. This aircraft is

now on display at the South

Yorkshire Aircraft Museum in

Doncaster, England.

This process was further accelerated by

dramatic and popular war films such as The

Bridge on the River Kwai (dir. David Lean,

1957), The Dirty Dozen (dir. Robert Aldrich,

1967, and its sequel, dir. Andrew McLaren,

1985), Night of the Eagle (dir. John Sturges,

1976) and also – in this case the Vietnam

War – The Green Berets, directed by and

starring John Wayne, in 1968.

The popularity of the aircraft shows no

sign of waning with time. More recently,

the Dakota has been seen on the big

screen in The Wild Geese (dir. Andrew

McLaglen, 1978), and in the barnstorming

Indiana Jones adventures by Steven

Spielberg (1981-2008), plus Spielberg’s

groundbreaking television series Band

of Brothers. The plane was seen in Air

America (dir. Roger Spottiswoode, 1990),

in White Hunter Black Heart (dir. Clint

Eastwood, who also starred, 1990), in

Traffic (dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2001)

and in the James Bond film Quantum

of Solace (dir. Marc Foster, 2008). It has

been calculated that, to date, the DC-3

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This aircraft, on display in

the Air Force Armament

Museum adjacent to Eglin

Air Force Base in Florida, was

originally a TC-47B but was

repainted to represent AC-47

Spooky 43-49010, which

served during the Vietnam

War as part of the 4th Special

Operations Squadron,

attached to the 432nd TRW

(Tactical Reconnaissance

Wing), which was based

in Udon, in Thailand. The

original 43-49010 is on

display at a Vietnam War

museum at Surasri Army

Camp in Kanchanaburi,

Thailand. Military museums,

particularly in the USA, have

been very involved in the

recovery and preservation of

historic aircraft.

has appeared, in a more or less obvious

way, in 169 films, documentaries and

television series and the C-47 in 155; and

this is without including the multitude of

special programmes on the two aircraft

which are aimed at the niche markets of

fans and home video, rather than full-scale

distribution and broadcasting.

Museums and

historical associations

The importance of the DC-3/C-47, both

from a commercial and military point

of view, explains its omnipresence in

aeronautical museums both in the United

States and abroad. Various examples of the

DC-3 and C-47 can be admired as static

displays in, among others, the Aircraft

Museum in Seattle (NC91008, Alaska

Airlines), the Carolinas Aviation Museum in

Charlotte, North Carolina (N44V, Piedmont

Airlines), the Smithsonian National Air

and Space Museum in Washington DC

(N18124, Eastern Airlines), the Aircraft

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The celebrities’ aircraft

The image of the DC-3 was enhanced by its former role as the aircraft of celebrities. For instance, among

the displays at the aviation museum in Rimini, Italy (the Parco Tematico e Museo dell’Aviazione G.

Casolari) is the DC-3 N242AG. Between 1956 and 1963, this aircraft belonged to Hollywood star Clark Gable

and, according to its logbook, its passengers included US President John F Kennedy and his brother Robert,

Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and President Ronald Reagan during his years as an actor. Another famous

character closely linked to the DC-3 was the singer Ricky Nelson, who died on 31 December 1985 in De

Kalb, Texas, when his Douglas DC-3 N711Y crashed while flying from Guntersville, Alabama, to Dallas. This

aircraft was produced by the Douglas plant in Oklahoma City as C-47A-25-DK 13658 in 1943 for the USAAF,

and in the course of its life had been plagued by mechanical problems. It had previously belonged to the

wealthy Du Pont family and the singer Jerry Lee Lewis.

The DC-3S N34AH (c/n 43360), above, started life

as C-47A-50-D, and was then converted to the

DC-3S (C-117D) standard. It has enjoyed a colourful

history – it was seized for transporting drugs in

1989 and was then bought in 2005 by Classic Air

Transport of Las Vegas. After spending some time at

Benson Municipal Airport near Tucson, Arizona, the

aircraft is now at the premises of Aircraft Restoration

and Marketing, in Tucson.

A DC-3 in the process of

being restored. The work

needed to bring an aircraft

back to its original condition

is long and complicated

and it is often carried out

by volunteers. It is usually

difﬁcult to restore the aircraft

to actual factory condition,

either because of the

numerous alterations made

during its operational life

or because of the choices

more or less forced on those

in charge of the restoration

project. As a result, it is not

unusual for restored aircraft

to be made up of parts

coming from several different

aircraft while retaining the

original serial number.

Museum of Santa Monica (N242SM,

‘Spirit of Santa Monica’), the Air Mobility

Command Museum of the Dover air base

in Delaware (42-92841, ‘Turf & Sport

Special’), the National Naval Aviation

Museum of the naval air force base of

Pensacola, Florida (C-117D 50821/821),

the American Airborne Museum of Sainte-

Mère-Èglise in France (C-47, Z315159,

‘The Argonia’) and the RAF Museum

at Cosford, in England (Dakota Mk IV,

KN645). Museums have been playing

an increasingly important part in recent

years, and there are also private individuals

involved in various ways in the salvage

and restoration of old Douglas aircraft.

The Flagship Detroit Foundation or AAF

– American Aeronautical Foundation –

has restored the DC-3 ‘Flagship Detroit’

(NC17334) and the C-47B ‘Aluminum

Mistress’ (43-49531), ensuring that they

are kept in working order. There are

many groups of enthusiasts, such as the

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A view inside the RAF Museum at Cosford,

Shropshire. In the centre of the picture, a Dakota

Mk IV KN645 is suspended from the roof. In the

other branch of the RAF Museum, at Hendon, in

London, a central section of the fuselage of a Dakota

is on display while the front section is waiting to be

mounted. There are other Dakotas in England, at

Wroughton, Framlington, Middle Wallop, Coningsby,

High Wycombe, North Weald, Brenzett and

Aldershot, as well as at the Imperial War Museum at

Duxford and the Science Museum in London.

Dutch Dakota Association, the Swedish

Flygande Veteraner, the France DC3 and

the Hungarian Goldtimer Alapítvány, as

well as enthusiastic individuals such as

Frank and Glen Moss, who were involved

in the recovery and restoration of DST

NC16005 in Punta Gorda in Florida and

have contributed to restoring various

aircraft to their original condition. Such

aircraft may have been no longer in use,

or in the course of their often complicated

operational life they may have undergone

various changes that had completely

altered their appearance.

Then there is the phenomenon of the

numerous virtual museums devoted to

A C-47, ZA947, in the

colours of the UK Royal

Aircraft Establishment

(RAE). Assigned to the

Royal Canadian Air Force

(RCAF) in September 1942,

it was acquired by the

RAE in 1971, after being

phased out by the RCAF.

Added to the RAE’s list of

surplus aircraft in 1992, in

March 1993 it was handed

over to the Battle of Britain

Memorial Flight (BBMF),

which subsequently restored

the aircraft to its original

condition. Now completely

operational, the aircraft

has been painted in the

colours of Dakota FZ692

‘Kwicherbichen’, used by

the RAF’s 223 Squadron in

Normandy in 1944.

the DC-3/C-47 that have been created

on the internet. Websites such as DC-3

Airways Virtual Airlines (www.dc3airways.

com) and The DC-3 Hangar (www.

douglasdc3.com) are a valuable source

of reliable data, frequently updated with

historic and current photographs of the

much-loved twin-engined Douglas.

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Having been acquired by

the Royal New Zealand

Air Force (RNZAF) after

World War II, the DC-3 in

this photograph (ZK-APK,

c/n 34227/16967) is today

on display in Mangaweka

on New Zealand’s North

Island, where it advertises

the activities of the

Mangaweka Adventure

Company. It was last

ﬂown by a company

called Fieldair, then was

subsequently painted in

varying colours to advertise

local concerns, including

Cookie Time’s DC-3 Café.

Pulling in the crowds

The iconic character of the DC-3 has frequently been used to attract crowds to events and attractions, and for advertising. DC-3s are found at the

entrances of theme parks devoted to aviation, such as the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, California, and the Fantasy of Flight park in Polk City,

Florida. In a less logical context, the image of the DC-3 has also been associated with non-aviation activities. For instance, the American Roasterie

chain, which sells tea and coffee, has chosen a stylised DC-3 as its logo, and it has even installed a complete DC-3 on top of its headquarters in Kansas

City, Missouri. Similarly, the DC-3 name is often associated with restaurants and bars. For instance, there is the DC-3 restaurant in Santa Catalina, in

California, and the DC-3 Hot Dog Restaurant in Washington, DC. At Lake Taupo, in New Zealand, a former DC-3 of the New Zealand National Airways

Corporation (ZK-CAW, c/n 18923 of 1943), adapted to function as a restaurant with 10 two-seat tables, is parked next to a McDonald’s fast food outlet,

for which it is both an extension and the main attraction.

But this is only the tip of the iceberg,

because the whole world of vintage

aeronautics (which is extremely well

represented on the Internet) regularly

pays tribute to the DC-3 with articles

specially devoted to it, either on websites

specialising in aircraft of the 1930s and

1940s (for instance, the British website

Oldprops, www.oldprops.ukhome.

net), or in photographic archives (such

as Airliners.net, www.airliners.net and

Airplane-Pictures.net, www.airplane-

pictures.net), and, last but not least, the

websites of the numerous very active

amateur associations.

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Assembly Guide

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Take the laser-cut frameworks corresponding to the pieces of the right wing, and the piece A13

that was supplied in an earlier pack. Remove the individual pieces with a craft knife, and use a ﬁle

and sandpaper to smooth the edges of each piece.

Fit and glue pieces A19, A20 and A47 onto the assembly formed by pieces A39-A40. Correctly

ﬁtting piece A47 between the other pieces will establish the correct angle for the cross-pieces and

ensure that the wing is symmetrical with the left wing already constructed.

Start by assembling the right wing, bearing in mind that the assembly operations are essentially

the same as those used for the left wing. Working on a ﬂat surface, position, ﬁt and glue

together the pairs of pieces A37-A38, A39-A40, A41-A42 and A43-A44, as shown.

From the underside, ﬁt and glue pieces A37-A38 and A41-A42 to the assembly made in

the previous step.

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N.B. Some elements supplied with each pack, in particular the sheets

of laser-cut plywood parts, may not look exactly the same to those in

the step-by-step photographs. But, of course, the individual assembly

pieces included within the laser-cut plywood parts will have exactly the

same shapes, sizes and descriptions as those shown here.

A39-A40

A47

A37-A38

A41-A42

A39-A40

A20

A43

A41

A39

A37 A38

A40

A42

A44

A19

See the back cover for a checklist of your parts for this pack.

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Fit and glue pieces A14, A46, A48 and A13, in that order.

Position and glue the stringers in their notches inside the wing.

Apply modelling ﬁller to the wooden elements and paint the

wing green. Cut out the part of the stringer between ribs A17

and A18 (see photograph), leaving this space free.

Complete the structure of the right wing by ﬁtting ribs A15, A16, A17, A18 and piece A45. Continue by assembling the ribs from A21

to A36 successively, and ﬁnally the joined pieces A43-A44.

If you have decided to ﬁt your aircraft with lights, insert two

pairs of cables into the wing for power, as shown above. Steps

13, 15, 16, 48 and 51-53 will tell you how to ﬁt and connect

the lights. If you are not ﬁtting lights, ignore these instructions.

Sand the pieces C67D and C68D, apply primer and

paint them green. Fix them in position as shown in the

photographs above.

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A14

A48

A33

A31

A29

A28

A27

A26

A25

A24

A23

A22

A21

A18

A17

A16

A15

A45

A43-A44

A35

A36

A34

A32

A30

A13

A18

C68D

C67D

A17

A46

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Assembly Guide

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Prepare cladding pieces AWR1 and AWR3 as you did

previously, and cover the upper surface of the right wing.

Repeat the operations carried out in the previous pack to

install the navigation lights and ﬁt a green LED at the end of

the wing.

In the same way, cover the lower surface with pieces AWR2

and AWR4.

Complete the end of the wing by gluing pieces S93D and

S94D in position.

Cover the lower part of the leading edge with pieces AWR8,

AWR9 and AWR10, starting at the edge and going towards the

end of the wing. For the upper part, mount the cladding pieces

AWR5, AWR6 and AWR7, following this order exactly.

Fit a white LED between pieces C71D and C72D.

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151413

AWR1

AWR3

S93D

S94D

C72D

C71D

AWR2

AWR4

AWR10

AWR9

AWR8

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Fit the connector sleeves to the cables sticking out from rib A13 of the right wing, in the same way as

you did for the left wing.

In the same way as you did in the previous pack, complete the assembly of the wing ﬂap support.

Cover pieces C71D and C72D with cladding pieces AWR11 and AWR12, ﬁtting them on the

lower and upper sides respectively.

Complete the assembly of the right wing ﬂap and its support with cladding pieces AWR13

and AWR14. Later, you will continue the assembly of both wings of the aircraft.

A13

C59h

C59g C59f C59e C59d C59c C59b

C59a

AWR14

AWR13

AWR11

AWR12

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With the pieces you have kept from Pack 10, start making the

second engine as explained in detail in Pack 9. The following

steps show you how to complete each of the engines, which

you can work on one at a time or both together.

Take two of the lengths of wire and glue them to one of the cylinders on the front side of the engine,

as shown.

Take the 0.5mm-diameter brass wire (supplied with Pack 5)

and use pliers to cut off 28 pieces, each 12mm long.

Straighten the 12mm lengths of brass wire by rolling them one

by one on a ﬂat, rigid surface with a ﬁle.

Repeat the operation for each cylinder on both sides of the engine.

C28

C22

C29

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Apply a coat of primer to both sides of the engine and to piece

SD59. Paint them aluminium, preferably with an airbrush, and

leave them to dry.

There is one piece SD59 and one screw with a nut for

each engine. Carry out the assembly of each piece without

tightening the nut too much. Keep the remaining two nuts to

use later for ﬁtting the propeller.

Use a brush to paint the details of the engine azure grey and matt black, following the colours in the illustrations above and elsewhere

on this spread. Let the paint dry, then apply a very diluted dark brown wash to emphasise the contours and details.

Fit and glue piece SD59 to the body of the engine, as shown.

Leave to dry.

Take the black cable supplied with Pack 5. Pass one

end through the hole (circled) above one of the cylinders,

and ﬁx the cable in the hole in the body of the engine, as

shown in the photograph.

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SD59

SD59EXTRAS x 2

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On the front of the engine, cut the cable to length and use cyanoacrylate glue (superglue) to stick the other end to the

outer edge of piece SD59, in front of its corresponding cylinder.

Repeat the operation for each cylinder.

Rear view of the engine assembly, showing the cables and

the cylinders.

SD59 Glue cable here

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Assembly Guide

Take the red cable kept from Pack 2, and ﬁx one end to the

front of the engine, as shown in the photograph.

Pass the cable between the cylinders to the other side of

the engine, cut it to length and ﬁx the end to the body of the

engine, as shown in the photo.

With a ﬁne brush, paint the ends of the engine cables aluminium so as to imitate the connectors. That completes the engine assembly

process, so if you are working on the engines one at a time, repeat the whole procedure to ﬁnish the other one.

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Assembly Guide

Right wing and engines

Fit and glue one engine into each of the central wing sections prepared previously, as shown. Make

sure that the rear of the engine ﬁts perfectly into its mounting.

Fit and glue the covers to both engines, as illustrated. Make sure that the pieces C24 ﬁt perfectly

onto the engine cowling.

Prepare the engine covers, pieces C24. Smooth them all over and apply to each of them, in this

order, the primer, the gloss black paint and the chrome ﬁnish. Be sure to leave enough drying

time between each coat and to handle the pieces with care.

Take the air outlets of the engines, the photo-etched metal pieces S38 supplied with Pack 9.

With ﬂat-nose pliers, bend the individual pieces one way and the other until they break off.

The broken edges of the parts will be sharp, so take care when handling them.

3736

3938

C24

C24 S38

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Assembly Guide

The broken edge of each piece will be placed and glued

between the covering of the aircraft and the engine cowling.

Following this photograph and the next four, ﬁt the individual

pieces (a, b and c) in the order indicated.

You have now completed the whole of one side of one of the engines.

Piece ‘a’ ﬁts at the top, then ﬁve ‘b’ pieces fan out around

the side (there will be a spare ‘b’ piece left over), then there is

a ‘c’ piece at the bottom.

Continue the operation with pieces from photo-etched

sheet S38.

Repeat the operations on the other side of the ﬁrst engine, and then on both sides of the

second engine, with pieces from the photo-etched sheet S38.

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