What do we want?

[Guest]

So Im going to guess from the look of the scaled down wheel and the pictures from spitfirespares that a clever bit of filling (Milliput?) and a cocktail stick is needed?

(Sorry, taking advatage of a bad situation to try and learn something)

[stona]

So Im going to guess from the look of the scaled down wheel and the pictures from spitfirespares that a clever bit of filling (Milliput?) and a cocktail stick is needed?

Something like that should work. The groove on the kit part is way too wide.

Steve

[Guest]

I generally don't mind a kit with a degree of difficulty as it is very satisfying to comlete but some kits out there just take the biscuit in my book, take my airfix 1/24 scale P51D mustang nothing fitted at all as it was supposed too.... and yes i know that it is over 40 years old and i paid £50.00 for that kit personally i thinkthese kits should be under the £35.00 mark due to the age of the kit and the mold quality. However i now use little bits of scratch building to enhance my kits and only where i think i need to, like many iam a big fan of Tamiya kits because of there overall quality and detail and they are excellent kits for beginners and i will never pay the money foe PE parts if not already supplied... the only exception to this is seatbelts for aircraft, the challenge for me when building a kit is the finish e.g the paint and weathering.

scott

[Guest]

The tailwheel on the Revell 1:48 is just that shape, which is the only reason I recognised it. It is supposed to be that shape, with the groove, but the groove on this is a tad wide. There is certainly not a tyre mounted on it as per the normal sense.

This link show a replacement one for 1:48 kit only as a line drawing but it clearly gives the shape CMK Kits ESHOP

[Ian M]

Now I know the tail wheel on a mossy is a bit weird, but that takes the prize!

Have you considered the possibility of chucking a bit of plastic rod of the right size in an electric drill and attacking it with a couple of needle files and a hobby knife.

Who was it that was saying they could do small things in a lathe and mill. If you can find a drawing, maybee they could turn a few off?

Ian M

[Gern]

OK - it's time to apologise to Revell! Grovel grovel.

Looking at the images Steve (Stona) found, I guess the Revell offering is not as bad as I thought. It's certainly within reasonable limits in terms of it being an older kit at the cheap end of the market. I'll have a closer look at Steve's pics and see if I can use the thing I have can as is or whether I'll have to have a go at tarting it up somehow. I might be able to get away with wrapping something thin around the centre section to reduce the depth of the groove and live with it being too wide.

Just goes to show sometimes. I would never have accepted that as a wheel without seeing those pics - and I'll bet I'm not the only one who thought it needs a tyre. I wonder how many folks will look at a finished version of the kit and think the same?

Thanks guys.

Gern