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1/72 DHC-4 Caribou prototype - Hobby Craft

Postby 72linerlover » Sun Mar 10, 2019 1:58 am

Hallo Everybody
A member of this forum asked me to post here a build report of a model I started some times ago for a “group build” some elsewhere.
Well, the Caribou is not exactly a civil aircraft, but this will be the prototype with civilian markings, so ...

Things in my life went the wrong way and I had to stop modeling for some times.
Now seems that I have a more quiet time-frame in front of me, so here I am.

A very kind guy of the dhc4and5 website provided me some information about the prototype that differs from the production aircraft for few key features.
- shorter fuselage, approx 1,1 meters
- different and shorter exhaust staks
- absence of fuselage strakes.
Other differences will be explained step by step.

First I perepared my own glue by dissolving some sprue in acetone and lacquer tinner.
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Then, began to study what have I to do with the exhausts.
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Here is where the fuselage has to be shortened.
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Last is the fuselage strakes removal. Some preparation to avoid damaging too much the panel lines.
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Some sanding and restoring the panels after finishing.
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As regards the engines, I'm going to replace them since they are 18 cylinders in the kit, while they should be 14.
I have some left over engines of a DC-3 that match the cowling dimensions.

New firewalls: they have to be 4 mm further back as the original, since the engines are longer.
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So I prepared 3 spacers to fit inside each cowling.
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Test fit of the engine: it seems to work.
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I hope this subject could be of some interest.
I know that the prototype is quite different compared to the production aircraft, but some modification and improvement to the kit are common to both.

Thanks for watching.
Regards
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Re: 1/72 DHC-4 Caribou prototype - Hobby Craft

Postby tor lives » Sun Mar 10, 2019 11:40 am

Very interesting and intriguing build so far......thanks for sharing.
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Re: 1/72 DHC-4 Caribou prototype - Hobby Craft

Postby RayS » Sun Mar 10, 2019 1:54 pm

Thanks for sharing it here Eugenio, I am sure others will be interested in it.
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Re: 1/72 DHC-4 Caribou prototype - Hobby Craft

Postby hrtpaul » Sun Mar 10, 2019 2:08 pm

Looking forward to following this mate. Love it so far :)
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Re: 1/72 DHC-4 Caribou prototype - Hobby Craft

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Re: 1/72 DHC-4 Caribou prototype - Hobby Craft

Postby Ansett A330 » Sun Mar 10, 2019 11:44 pm

VH-WAL wrote:nice civil caribou option here:
http://www.aussieairliners.org/dhc-4/vh-bfc/vhbfc.html


Knew about it as have the decals for one but did not about it's history! A Swedish Caribou no less! Definitely know what my second Caribou is going to be now!

Surprisingly there are a number of articles and photos on the Net of it on trial with the Swedish Air Force :

http://www.x-plane.org/home/urf/aviatio ... ribou.html

http://www.dhc4and5.org/ForeignDHC4s-3.html

http://www.avrosys.nu/aircraft/Transpor ... 69Tp55.htm
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Re: 1/72 DHC-4 Caribou prototype - Hobby Craft

Postby Ansett A330 » Sun Mar 10, 2019 11:46 pm

How about this for a KFC Billboard! :

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Re: 1/72 DHC-4 Caribou prototype - Hobby Craft

Postby Ansett A330 » Sun Mar 10, 2019 11:51 pm

And here it is! :

-25.444510, 31.927061

and even on Street View! :

https://www.google.com/maps/@-25.444809 ... 312!8i6656
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Re: 1/72 DHC-4 Caribou prototype - Hobby Craft

Postby 72linerlover » Mon Mar 11, 2019 4:05 am

Ok, ok, guys, there's a lot of civilian Caribous out there, but I love prototype aircraft as first evidence of studies, research and enginrering and, after all, the fuselage has already been cut.
So, here the second part of the week-end report.

The cockpit interior of the kit is quite crude, so I decided to add something. The separated front end helps a lot.
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In order to put the seats rails in the correct position I started working on one of them.
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Next week end, something more about the IP.

Bye
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Re: 1/72 DHC-4 Caribou prototype - Hobby Craft

Postby 72linerlover » Sun Mar 17, 2019 8:36 pm

Hi, everybody.
This WE update is dedicatet to some bits to be put inside the cockpit.

Unfortunately there is no coaming in the kit, and a quick assemby test revealed that through the glazing everyone can note its absence.
So I started from a wooden block to search for the correct form.
After a pair of attempts I got this.
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Here in sequence: plunge forming, cut to size and test positioning.
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Probably due to my mistake, the control columns of the kit don't fit well with my new pavement.
Since I was at them, I made some other parts for the cockpit:
the central sliding consolle, the control columns, the elevator trim wheel and the front gear steering wheel.
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