tpartlow Posted September 19, 2012 Report Posted September 19, 2012 I purchased a set of Continental Airlines decals for a DC-6 and it calls for a non-radar nose. Did anyone ever do this aircraft or do a conversion to change the nose. Any help is appreciated. TIA Tony #5477
ewahl Posted September 19, 2012 Report Posted September 19, 2012 Tony, What scale are we looking for? DC-6B airliners come in 1/72, 1/144, and perhaps some odd scales. Here's a suggestion: Get a good profile line drawing of a short-nose DC-6 and copy it to the size of your scale. Overlay the kit's fuselage and determine where to cut. Remove the long nose and fabricate a short nose to match your drawing. I did this process in reverse on the Revell DC-7C in 1/139 scale, adding a long nose to a short-nose fuselage. The line drawing you need may be on the decal instructions, so you won't have to search too far. Good luck. Ed
Ralph Nardone Posted September 20, 2012 Report Posted September 20, 2012 If you are working in 1/144 scale, the fix is easy: Copy the nose of Minicraft's DC-4 and graft it onto the Minicraft DC-6. If you are working in 1/72, follow Ed's advice--get some good profile drawings of either a non-RADAR DC-6 or a DC-4, fill the nose of the Heller kit with super glue or epoxy putty, and sand away all that doesn't look like a DC-4 nose. Be aware, though, that a lot of the non-RADAR DC-6's were just that-- DC-6's. The kits (Minicraft in 1/144 and Heller in 1/72) represent DC-6A/B and C-118A/B airframes--the fuselage is longer them than it is on the straight 6. If you are working in 1/144, at one time Minicraft's kit was marked with "cut lines" to do "Independence", Harry Truman's aircraft--it was a VC-118. I can't recall whether it has the short nose or not, though... By the time I worked on these beasts, they all had RADAR noses. I don't know whether I enjoyed chasing sparks on the DC-4, DC-6, or CV-340/440 most--they were all fun. R
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