Since the antenna goes through the canopy and attaches to the head rest which moves with the canopy on this plane does the antenna go slack when the canopy is open? I’ve been looking for hours to find good pics of the plane on the net and havent found a good shot of the plane with the canopy open that I could make out the antenna. I’ve found one shot of a model where the builder made the antenna slack with the canopy open. All others have chosen to make it tight with the canopy open. Which is correct?
thanks!
Flat canopies maintain the tension, blown canopies lose it.
I highly recommend checking out FW-190 In Action,and FW-190 A/F Walkaround. Both are published by Squadron/Signal. The painting on the back of the walkaround shows the cable taunt with an open canopy,I think there was a pulley system at work.Hope that helps.
I read somewhere that some FWs used a pulley with a spring to take up the slack. I was at one point considering doing that with my Revell 1/32 190D-9. Until I woke up and realised what a piece of crap the kit was.
Yeah, the ones witht he blown style hood canopy no longer had the tensioning device.
Thanks for the replies. I’m going to make it with the line tight. Ofcourse that means I’ll have to fix the canopy in the open position unless I want to make my own spring loaded tensioner. NOT.