wendovertom wrote:
Hopefully these are a little better - the E-2 (VAW-120) will not sit down on its nose - even with weight added
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Tom as a 1/700 and 1/350 modeller I often have tailsitters. Clear plastic is a solution. I just did a A-3 Skywarrior that would not sit down on its nose gear. I cut a small trench in the underside of the belly with a dremmel cutting rotary tool, then cut a piece of clear plastic from a discarded package, think it was from a tv remote I bought, but any clear, solid, plastic will work- like a package of strawberries. Thinner the better, but not so thin it is flimsy
Cut the trench with a tool, I use a very thin dremmel cut off whell. Trench is parallel with the fuselage. Then with scissors cut a very small strip of plastic about one inch long and 1/16 inch wide or less. Use crazy glue, put a small drop on one tip of the strip and glue it into the trench or hole on the bottom of the aircraft a little aft of the main wheels. Or you can try to glue it directly to the underside of the fuselage, but I find the trench gives anoter surface for the glue to stick. Hold the clear plastic straight down until it dries, you now have a super long 4th landing gear. Why so long? So you can position it and don't crazy glue the clear strip to your finger tips (experince here). It should be dry in 30 seconds. The other reason you want it long is so you can cut it to size. Eyeball the line where you need to cut and cut with scissors. You now have a 4th gear "kick stand" that pushes the nose down. Usually you can go position this kick stand just behind the main gear and it is pretty un-noticable. Belly kick stand is also better for carrier dioramas so you can postition the tail over the side of the carrier. On a Hawkeye this kick stand will be easy to hide under the tail or belly.
Give it a shot.
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