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Guillows Series 200 - Thomas Morse Scout by Roring40. Viewed 1495 times. Build Thread Next Prev Click image to return. Image Comments Roring40 26-Feb-10 18:43 jimbothehotdog 22-Apr-10 10:43 Are you sure these are not pics of the real thing? :o) Seriously... Wow! Very nice! Roring40 22-Apr-10 16:20 Thanks. Unfortunately shortly after I hang it from the ceiling, a small structural flaw saw it take an unanticipated flight down on to my computer desk. It is now back in the rebuild queue ! stirling 22-Apr-10 22:09 NOOOOOOO!!!!! Hope that beautiful prop did'nt get damaged!! Roring40 22-Apr-10 23:56 Gary, it was just about the only thing that didn't get broken ! Almost a write off but I was forced to grit my teeth and commenced a rebuild. I have now learned the bad consequences of using sawn up bolts for engine cylinders - too much weight in all the wrong places. fiawol3141 23-Apr-10 06:31 I have been studying all of your photos and I will be attempting a few new things this build. I want to build an engine and a prop from scratch. Im pretty sure I will be able to do a fairly decent job thanks to your pics and this sites tutorials. Something that I noticed while pouring over your pics is that all of the very small details look incredible. The throtle in the cockpit, heck the cockpit itself, the control lines, and the do-dads on top of the engine cylinders. How did you make such them look so good? Did you carve them out of wood, clay, plastic? I cant figure it out. Roring40 23-Apr-10 15:12 Hiya fiawol3141. I must admit I get a bit carried away with cockpits ! The main material here is wood just like the original. I used some nice New Zealand native timbers and varnished them. My recomendations for a good cockpit are. 1. Get some great pics off the internet from as many angles as you can. 2. Work out the major features that need to be seen and make these as accurate as possible but forget the rest. 3. I go down to my local recycling centre with a plastic bag and scrounge through their trays of nuts and bolts and doodads and pick up as many unusual tiny little plastic and metal fittings as I can. The weirder the better as you will often have some peculiar cockpit fitting to make and find in your little treasure box the perfect doodad that frankly would never be useful for anything else. 4. I use really thin plasti-card and brass sheeting for those really hard to make bits. 5. I raid my wifes teacher resource cupboard and run off with anything that looks remotely interesting (she'll never catch me - haha). A good cockpit is built in layers. Start with the background (metal formers, planking or the like)and build up on top of it up until it looks full enough. My ones aren't scale, aren't accurate and look nothing like the original but they are heaps of fun to build. NB: I've posted a couple of pics of the cockpit I'm working on for my P-40. Not finished or painted yet but getting there. Cheers Please sign in to comment on this image.