Subject: Re: Proposed Gallery Article - Northrop N1-M "Jeep"
From: "Steve Bamford" <[email-masked]>
To: "Aibara Darius @Consult" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:12:43 -0800

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From: "Aibara Darius @Consult" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 12:55 AM
Subject: Proposed Gallery Article - Northrop N1-M "Jeep"

> Steve
>
> Latest project now completed.
>
> Northrop N1-M "Jeep"
>
> Following on from their kit of Northrop's N9M-A Flying Wing, Sword Models
> have released a 1:48 kit of the earlier N1-M "Jeep".  The kit is similar
to
> its predecessor, being well detailed with polyurethane resin engine
intakes,
> cockpit sidewalls and seats, two vac-formed canopies and a small decal
sheet
> with USAAF star roundels and the Northrop logo.
>
> The fuselage/wing is moulded in two halves, upper and lower, with separate
> propeller shaft housings.  The main undercarriage wheel wells are shallow
> and lack detail and I was tempted to scratch build replacements, however
> lack of reference data and the general invisibility of these areas led me
to
> leave the wells as is (OK, I didn't really fancy scratch building them).
> The interior was painted as per the kit instructions (plywood with
aluminium
> and black details) although correspondence that I received after the
earlier
> N9M-A model suggests that the cockpit (of the N9M-B) is painted "Interior
> green".
>
> The propellers differ in shape from those shown in the picture of the N1M
in
> Volume 2 of "Wings of Fame", but after some cleaning up they did not look
> too bad.  I drilled the prop hub and shaft housings to insert a steel wire
> shaft in order to mount them to the fuselage.
>
> One complete the fuselage was spray painted Humbrol gloss yellow and the
> decals added.
>
> This is a good kit of an interesting prototype.  Hopefully Sword Models
will
> continue to issue kits of these fascinating aircraft.
>
>
>  <<N1M.zip>>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Darius Aibara
> TPS Consult
>
> Tel:  020 8256 4090
> Fax: 020 8256 4082
>
> www.tpsconsult.co.uk
>
>
>
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