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Aug 3, 2024, 11:14:31 AM8/3/24

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Hmm. Another Vazar Turbo Otter on the go. Have you seen my Harbour Air one that is nearly done? There is quite a lot of descrepancies with the fuselage of the HC kit. Especially the cabin side windows????!!!

I have just re-checkd the original wing tip photo and that is definitely the underside - but the tip is not stuck in yet anyway. I'll wait 'till I have a pair I am happy with, then will try and make some resin copies - probably.

I picked it up at Telford a couple of years ago. There was a table full of them tucked into the corner of Hall 3 - snapped one up. I think I did see some last year, so you might get lucky this year. Yes, that is the link where I originally spotted it. Good luck!

Ah. I see now where you have cut the wing tips to. Re the windows Its the spacing of the windows in the kit that is not right. They are almost paired in the kit, whereas they should be more evenly spaced out. The 2nd one along is a bit too far forward and the 3rd one a bit aft. But the overall length and size of the fuselage is at odds. BUt very tricky to correct. Anyway however its built your red one will look smart.

By the way, you mention flying next to the pilot. Well back in 2002 on my first visit to Canada, I flew in a beaver of Baxter Aviation (Now long gone and swallowed up by first West Coast Air and then Harbour Air) and sat next to pilot up front!!! Brilliant hour and a quarter trip flying up to a lake 6000feet a.m.s.l. landing on for a few minutes before going off again back down to Vancouver. Looking forward to going back in the coming September......

Hi Paul, I just noticed your conversion today. Neatly done! Engine & nose cone from a Matchbox Twotter? I never would have thought of that! My apologies for being just late enough with the resin set to put you through the extra work, but that seems to be another corollary to Murphy's Law: somebody, somewhere, has to be doing it the hard way before a kit will be released.

About riding in the front seat, when you get into something like a Beaver, it's all about weight & balance. If the pilot thought the plane would fly better with you in the back seat, that's probably where you would have ended up. For a ride in a Beaver down Lake Clark Pass to Lake Iliamna, I was once put in the right seat & my boss was put behind the pilot, because at 220 lbs. I was just slightly lighter...

Sorry to resurrect the thread, but it seems that I might be doing a very similar or the same conversion sooner or later. I flew on C-GVIX today (has a brand new engine conversion being used, the first one. I believe it is externally identical to what you modelled). I got the copilot seat, which was very enjoyable. Do you still have the molds for the wingtips?