Hi All,
Well as promised managed to do some work on the take off dolly.
The main body is Balsa, then skinned with thin plastic sheet, I also made up the axle box from plastic card, then drilled an accommodating hole, an axle then inserted and extra wide sponson's added to the axle.
Note as this was in 1/144th, to get an idea of the dimensions I printed off a dragon instruction sheet with a parts layout map, then scaled this up from a side view to the correct side, then components were then traced onto plastic sheet/balsa and cut out.
At the moment the axle is deliberately too long, and will be adjusted as the build continues. Next thing is to add some detail to the dolly, ribbing, rivets, hubs, support mounts, and RATO take off pack. The dolly is only shown as a set up at moment, and also the Mistel is placed onto dolly, just to check general layout. The Mistel will be horizontal and mounted on supports when nearer completion
I have added a 50p piece in the pictures for size.
Cheers,
Bigkev