P-38 air-o-plane

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Model on left in photo was made by my dad while he was in the Philippines during WWII. Many service men made "trench art" during their free time. It is made entirely of bullets and shell casings. I needed some practice with Fusion360 so made a model of a model. You will need some basic model tools as in the photo and a bit of skill to put it together but is a rather straight forward assembly. I have made this model two times so I'm pretty sure if works but please message me if you have any trouble. I put holes in several places to use a piece of 1.75 filament for alignment and assembly. I did needed to clean the holes out using a #50/.07" drill a 5/64 drill would more than likely work also. All the bullets are made in two pieces and printed on the flat end with a brim as they are rather small. The OS(out side) rear fuselage is split length wise and printed on the flat side, no brim, this is the only part I had to use supports on and I used support blockers on the assembly holes. I tried printing the OS rear fuselage on end but the small end turned out very brittle and broke easily, works much better this way. The rudder has a small recess that fits into the rear fuselage I slid the rear fuselage onto the rear wing and put a small drop of super glue on the recess and slid it together… I hope this is clear. I then slide the the center fuselage and the two OS fuselages onto the main wing, no glue, then glued the front to the back. The OS fuselages only go on the main wing one way! I used a small piece of .100" aluminum welding rod to attach the plane to the base. If you like this I have also posted a model of a B-17