Converting a Revell C-47 to a DC3?

That's what I thought. A quick perusal of civilian DC-3/mil C-47 images and tech drawings on the net does indeed show different numbers of windows, i.e. 7 versus 6.

John Hairell ( snipped-for-privacy@erols.com)

How accurate do you want to be? All Monogram did was give you a new fuselage half and interior with passenger seats and curtains.

Superficially that's all you need do but there are a lot of detail differences that they (and nobody else in any scale). don't address. If you're doing a real DC-3 (opposed to one of the civilianized C-47s after the war) you have to decide between the 14-cylinder Pratt & Whitney engines (like the C-47 has) or the 9-cylinder Curtis-Wright engines that the plane first flew with. For a prewar airliner which engines you decide on will depend on which airlines markings you're doing. Likewise, the passenger door can be on the left side or the right side (American Air Lines who is directly responsible for the development of the DST/DC-3 had the Wright engines and the passenger door on the right). If you decide on the Wright engines you also need to move the 'armor plate' back slightly on the side of the fuselage (gotta move a panel back -- these panels were on either side of the fuselage where the props would throw ice at it). The exhaust system varied depending on things like how the particular airline heated the cabin. The props are different than the ones found on the C-47 kit. There are additional hatches on the aft fuselage and two additional 'skylight' windows, one over each restroom in the aft fuselage (if I remember correctly there is a panel there in the kit).

Jeff IPMS something or other

No DC-3 ever started life as a C-47. Commercial C-47s are still C-47s. here is very little in the way of true 'commonality' between the types. When the set out to build the C-47 by "just cutting a hole in the fuselage" they ended up redesigning the whole structure though I'm pretty sure that the outer wing panels are identical :-)

here is the real difference between the DC-3 and C-47

I notice that one of the requirements in converting a military DC-3 to civilian use is the removal of the litter boxes.

Is this the feline equivalent to the pilot relief tube?

C Knowles schrieb:

OK, thanks a lot (alos to all the others in the thread)!

Jürgen