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Old 24 May 2008, 11:45 PM #78 (permalink)
Familyman
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The wheels are ok, I think. At least they are absolutely the same size as the DML Dragon kit's wheels. I'm talking about the total size of the wheels. It could be, however, that the tires are a little bit too thick and the wheel disk too small respectively. Even tiny differences in these might be quite visible.

The front landing gear struts in the Eduard kit are 17 mm. About the same length as in the DML dragon kit (the pegs going in the attachment holes are measured out). The rear struts you can't compare easily, since the Eduard kit's struts are supposed to be attached on the sides of the fuselage and the Dragon kit's on the bottom of the fuselage.

Anyway, the Eduard rear struts are 18 mm and Dragon struts 15 mm. The groove on the fuselage sides on the Eduard kit, where the struts are supposed to be attached are 2 mm. That leaves the Eduard struts at least 1 mm longer. Could it be that the Eduard rear struts are too long? The axel wing angle in Sreiko's photos suggest that too

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