The Late 8 could carry five passengers with the luxury of a
restroom -equipped with toilet, and so was proudly announced in contemporary
ads. The pilot, like in many other designs of the time, sat quite back in an
exposed cockpit on the fuselage, to the right of the spine, and had to access
his position from the exterior. There is not much in terms or reference material,
but it's clear the plane first had a pointy vertical tail with the legend
"LAT8", and then a more rounded one. The exhaust went through three
changes, as well as some other external details. Photos also show it with and
without the F-ESDF registration. When those were applied, they went on the vertical tail and
under the lower wing only.
Decals as usual are form Arctic Decals.
The completed model is here:
https://wingsofintent.blogspot.com/2019/05/latecoere-lat8-1921-scratchbuild-172_4.html
The completed model is here:
https://wingsofintent.blogspot.com/2019/05/latecoere-lat8-1921-scratchbuild-172_4.html
Magnificent. Just so.
ReplyDeleteYour Psychadelic-O-Mattel Cheesemaking machine - could you today replace any part(s) fairly "easily", or once the machine fails is it forever gone? It evidently seems like it's been a very good friend to you over the years: what an investment!
Necroposting again, apologies!
You can replace certain parts, but not main components (that I am aware of at this date). The main issue are the plastic sheets used to mold the parts. The originals were very good, and the replacements on the market are sorely inadequate, or point blank crap. In the case of the clear ones, it's especially difficult to get anything that resembles the original thing. Old packets of original sheets go for ridiculously high prices in the second hand market.
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