Protractor & Calipers (on screen)

[AGNT_Matt]

Pipl, we are sooooooooooo on notice,

you mean we are soooooooooo screwed?

[JMSmith]

now now lads,

don't panic, i am on nights this week so sneak as much through as you can, promise i won't pounce
GM according to my tools your he177 is one scale mm to short

as for excuses, i will only except the following,

"the wife keeps hitting me round the head whilst i am drawing"

" the kids got on my pc and mucked around with my drawing"

" john supplied me with the line drawing!"

no other excuse will be tollerated. he he he ha ha ha

[AGNT_Matt]

will "my girl hitting me round the head" count?

[JMSmith]

NO!

you must be married anyway she ain't hitting you hard enough

[GiantFlyingRobots]

How about, they're not mine anyway, I stole them from another site?

[Zamex]

An excuse for GM for tha He 177:
"Zamex supplied me with the line drawing!"

Shame on me. Bad, bad Zamex!
But I would swear its the jpeg compression I did it exactly in scale :P

[stephane_G]

I thought, I couldn't stop to get more accuracy on my own, but I find somebody who pushes the limit so far !

Between us, I see the exciting challenge, but do you think "external customers" will see the EXTRA ? Or we do this for our sole passion, and then there are no limits.

[gamary]

no other excuse will be tolerated.

This is not an excuse, it's a fact. My He 177 is a winter one. So the metal goes cold and contracts a bit.

I can't even blame Zamex, because the plans I used are part his, part others and part mine.

@Zamex: one thing that might need modification on your drawing are the engine exhaust vents. They have a silly shape that is very hard to see on most picture. I suspect Heinkel decided to annoy you and me and created those. ;-) (Maybe the A-6 didn't have such exhausts, I haven't checked. But the earlier versions did from what I could see.)

[JMSmith]

hi GM,

two points, first what was the exact tempreture, so i can calculate the amount of shrinkage second, what funny shape exhuast, they look normal to me, multiple on the early ones and three on later models some with night shrouds?

[GrubbyFingers]

I'm not worried ... I don't claim my stuff is accurate.