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What are these holes?
LuckyBlunder
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Posted: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 08:47 PM UTC
Hi all -

If I successfully loaded the picture, you will notice that there is a row of holes just below the canopy sill. These are the fuselage halves from the Acadamy P-35 (My latest victim).

What are these holes and what color should they be painted? Anyone?

Steve
lampie
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Posted: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 08:59 PM UTC
Hi Steve.
They are just part of the canopy interior bracing I believe.
You can clearly see them in the photo


Heres a LINK to a fabulous 1:32 P-35 build which might help your research.

Hope this helps
Nige
LuckyBlunder
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Posted: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 09:56 PM UTC
Nigel -

Thanks! That is a tremendous help, but it left me with a lot more work to do. Guess I'll have to strip off the interior green and go to all-metal interior. I now have references that show both primer and NMF interiors and apparently these birds had both.

The structural channels with the lightening holes are gonna require a lot of attention.

Sincerly appreciate the help.

Steve
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