Hammer,
Interesting! Are you sure? If so, please tell.
It is a.) the keystone shape, and b.) the indented section on the microphone part of the mike, that to my eye makes it "sure look like" it's a match, but this is also from a vintage kit and not one of the re-issues. But what would really "prove" it, to my mind, is knowing a.) whether it was too small, just right, or too large based on b.) knowing what it was sitting on top of, the infamous mystery "conning tower" greeblie that is quite possibly not at all a "conning tower" from a ship but could be a section of undergirder frame from a truck or some other vehicle. This "conning tower" piece is cut off of a larger piece at the base, but what that piece is only a handful know and they ain't sharin'. Meanwhile, it's a figure-ground problem as I see it: unless you can positively ID the piece it sits on top of, you don't have any real way of claiming that the CB-radio piece from the K-123 Cabover is "too small." In other words, it has to be too small in comparison to something, and the only something is the thing it's sitting on top of. Or am I missing something? My current "conning tower" piece is a 3D CAD file printout, and I have no way of knowing if it's the right size or not, but from other 3D pieces I've acquired on Shapeways, I can tell you that several of them are also "too small" based on acquisition of the originals they are trying to imitate.
If you have another metric for demonstrating it or categorically disproving it as a legitimate ID, please share, I am very interested in all the pros and cons of these last few pieces.
Interesting! Are you sure? If so, please tell.
It is a.) the keystone shape, and b.) the indented section on the microphone part of the mike, that to my eye makes it "sure look like" it's a match, but this is also from a vintage kit and not one of the re-issues. But what would really "prove" it, to my mind, is knowing a.) whether it was too small, just right, or too large based on b.) knowing what it was sitting on top of, the infamous mystery "conning tower" greeblie that is quite possibly not at all a "conning tower" from a ship but could be a section of undergirder frame from a truck or some other vehicle. This "conning tower" piece is cut off of a larger piece at the base, but what that piece is only a handful know and they ain't sharin'. Meanwhile, it's a figure-ground problem as I see it: unless you can positively ID the piece it sits on top of, you don't have any real way of claiming that the CB-radio piece from the K-123 Cabover is "too small." In other words, it has to be too small in comparison to something, and the only something is the thing it's sitting on top of. Or am I missing something? My current "conning tower" piece is a 3D CAD file printout, and I have no way of knowing if it's the right size or not, but from other 3D pieces I've acquired on Shapeways, I can tell you that several of them are also "too small" based on acquisition of the originals they are trying to imitate.
If you have another metric for demonstrating it or categorically disproving it as a legitimate ID, please share, I am very interested in all the pros and cons of these last few pieces.
