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PARTS REQUIRED
PILOT AND CANNON
BARREL SEAT ASSEMBLY
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{1} Prepainted Balsa Cannon Mount
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{2} Plastic Body Halves
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{2} Plastic Cannon Halves
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{2} Plastic Head Halves
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{1} Balsa Barrel Seat Platform
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{1} Plastic Barrel Seat
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{1} Plastic Barrel Seat Back
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1) Using a modeling knife or Lexan
Canopy Scissors, trim off the upper section of
the barrel seat at the molded scribe line. Using
220 grit sandpaper with a sanding block, care-
fully sand the edges smooth, being careful to keep
the radius flat.
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2) Glue the balsa barrel seat platform into place
in the top of the barrel seat using Kwik Bond Thick
C/A. The precovered side should face up and the
top of the platform should be flush with the top sides
of the barrel seat. See photo # 42 below.
Photo # 42
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3) Test fit the barrel seat into the fuselage.
The seat rests on top of the two angled balsa stand-
offs preglued to the fuselage floor. It is orientated
with the small diameter portion facing down.
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4) Using a modeling knife or Lexan Canopy
Scissors cut out the barrel seat back along the
molded scribe lines. Leave about a 1/8” lip around
the bottom of the seat for a gluing surface. See
photo # 43 below.
Photo # 43
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5) Test fit the seat back onto the barrel seat,
inside the fuselage. Using a pen place marks on
the seat back where the pushrod tubes contact
it on either side. Remove the seat back and cut
out only those areas that interfere with the push-
rod tubes. Test fit the seat back once more and
make any further adjustments until you are sat-
isfied with the fit.
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6) Remove the seat back and the seat from
the fuselage. If you wish to detail the cockpit
area in the fuselage, do so at this time.
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7) Paint the barrel seat and barrel seat back
to taste using Testors paints. We painted the out-
side of the barrel seat and the outside of the seat
back brown. The inside of the seat back was
painted black.
PILOT AND CANNON ASSEMBLY
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8) Using a modeling knife or Lexan Canopy
Scissors, trim off the rounded edges on the re-
maining plastic parts. These include the cannon
halves, body halves and head halves. Use 220
grit sandpaper with a sanding block and sand all
of the edges smooth, flat and straight.
Pay careful attention to keeping all of the
edges straight. This will make joining the
halves much easier.
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9) Using scissors, cut out small tabs about
1/8” wide and 1/4” long from the excess plastic
that was trimmed off in the previous steps. Bend
each of the tabs at the middle into a shallow "V"
shape.
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10) Using thin C/A glue tabs into only one
half of each shape (head, body and cannon) at
several locations along the edges. See photo
# 44 below.
Photo # 44
BARREL
SEAT
BARREL SEAT
PLATFORM
MAKE
FLUSH
BARREL
SEAT BACK
LEAVE
1/8” LIP
TABS
TABS
