1/48 B-17 Group Build...ALL INVITED TO JOIN!

Did a little bit of clean up and shot some primer on her.  I'm headed up north for the weekend, and I can't take it with me.

Cheers

If I knew about it I would've.  However, if I were to acquire the set I would only be be using 1 maybe 2 of the figures, and thats what I'm telling myself to convince myself not to buy it if I come across one.  But like I said, I've been distracted and havent paying attention to much modeling recently.

Rraider It was $70 for BOTH sets -ground and air crew ,I figgered you be on it.................

Dang I really need to start working on my 17 again. I've gone maybe a month without touching it, but I've been distracted by fishing, working and model railroading.  I really don't have too much work to do except mount the cheek guns and add the gun windows before I close her up.  My goal is to have this whole project done for a contest in october but I'm gone on vacation for a week and then go back to college the end of august.  I really want to finish this but don't want to rush it.  Now going back and looking at some posts I see I missed out on a Teknics figure set on ebay and it was only around 70 &^$%^#%!.  O well, so goes the hobby

There is something to be said for the kit parts ,I opted out of the TD stuff I got , soft details ,misalignment and thick edges wont work in the Viz b-17 . The kit parts ,about $10 of evergreen and they look ok.I did use the TD pilot seats and scratched the mounts.It looks like its gonna be a real chore getting all that in there. I was concerned with a consistant level of detail throughout the model as well. I still think the TD stuff I got ,off ebay , was a recast or black dog as it is really soft and crumbly, with poor detail. Any way the work is looking good on here and I look forward to seeing the resin parts come together.

WOW! Those TD parts look nice, Rob! But w/ all that resin, I bet that 17 weights a ton when done!!!

I have one more 17 to do (besides the one I've been working on for 3 years). I want to do a full cut away, similar to the above drawing, so I might looking into the TD sets....

Adding more resin to the nose section.  It's going to take a lot more work to get her ready for paint.

Cheers

I'm glad it worked out for you. I normally use this methood for simulating crash damage on 1/24-25 scale cars (with great results) and I've had some sucess with re-shaping warped parts.

It can also be used to do some of the work that a candle is normally needed for (i.e. bending prop blades to simulate belly landings on an aircraft, or heating sprue for streaching, if your heat gun has a "locking trigger")

If you need bad wether, come to my neck of the woods in North Florida. we have plenty of it for the next week or so.

Railfan 233

Lancair IV:

Cockpit and nose section started today.  Lots of resin to be fitted.  Does anyone know if you can heat resin to bend it?

 

Yes, you can. It's easily done like plastic. Just use a hair-dryer to soften the resin, and bend it back into shape (Or, bend it into the shape you need)

A word of warning, though: it's really, really easy to over-do it, and you can warp the parts too much, or (worst case scenario) burn the resin parts, and wind up with a flaming, melting ball of plastic

 [It happened once with my heat gun. I wasn't paying atention, and the plastic started to burn and smoke. Luckily, it didn't catch fire]

Thanks for the tip.  I tried the heat gun tonight.  I heated the part for less than 5 seconds and it was soft enough to push into shape.  With a little luck and bad weather, I might have the cockpit done by the end of the week.........LOL

One of the best illustration books out there is B-17 Flying Fortress, Roger Freeman / Rikyu Watanabe  Crown Press.  This book has great illustrations of the B-17G.  Colored prints of cockpit and nose, full cutaway drawing, bomb bay, landing gear, tail wheel, and other stuff.  I just looked on Amazon and there are 26 ranging from around 3 bucks to a 130.  It is a must have for the B-17 modeler, because you cannot build just one.  There is also a monster of a book called The Great Book of  World War II Airplanes.  This book has all the B-17 illustrations plus other bombers and fighters of WW II.  I think you will shell out your life savings for that one.  I hope this helps you out . : )

Lancair - Good luck with those True Details cockpit and nose sections.  I put those in my 17 and had one heck of a time getting them to fit.  A lot of sanding later and the fuselodge was able to be closed.

Here is a pic that may help ,I will go through my refs tonight regarding wiring.

Lancair IV

Cockpit and nose section started today.  Lots of resin to be fitted.  Does anyone know if you can heat resin to bend it?

Yes, you can. It's easily done like plastic. Just use a hair-dryer to soften the resin, and bend it back into shape (Or, bend it into the shape you need)

A word of warning, though: it's really, really easy to over-do it, and you can warp the parts too much, or (worst case scenario) burn the resin parts, and wind up with a flaming, melting ball of plastic

 [It happened once with my heat gun. I wasn't paying atention, and the plastic started to burn and smoke. Luckily, it didn't catch fire]

Cockpit and nose section started today.  Lots of resin to be fitted.  Does anyone know if you can heat resin to bend it?

Cheers

im looking for the harness wireing that ran threw the whole plane. ive seen phots of the hydraulic calbe and wiring for the wheels but that really it

im not going to wirer the whole plan just the main wiring. and wires for the comm in the plane

Be more specific, I doubt you will wlre the whole bird, ie: bbay , cockpit etc.I have extensive refs and am gonna do the visB so let me know I may be able to provide. Do you have the hydraulic and cable refs?

Does anyone have and good photo's of the inside of these b-17's looking for the wireing ref in the pictures

wow. thats alot for a b-17 1:48 scale.. ugh those are the decals ive been looking for I guess they stopped producing the decal sheet just to buy

Thanks Hans.

I remember when I was around 5 years old, I got a Revell B-17 with the instruction booklet. I didn't know if they were still around or not. I'm glad to see that it's still in there.

I'm also going to be eyeing those booklets on the link. I have been eyeing a B-25 in Michaels, just wanting to do something different, and the booklet on the B-25 being salvaged for parts is something I would like to try.

Thanks Hans Von Hammer...I really like picking up books that Shep Paine wrote and pictures of his dio....

wonder if it was in the Fine Scale Modeler at one time, or if Revell still supplies it with their B-17 models.

Revell supplies you with a copy of the original dio tip-sheet in the kit...

Here's a link to a bunch of  Shep Paine's diorama tip-sheets...

http://sheperdpaine.atspace.com/index.htm

Thank you DIvision 6.

I'll save up for a B-17 model for myself, and I'll join in on this build.

[ by budget is tied up for the forseeable future, and a trip to the hobby shop is unlikely for now, but I'll get there eventually]

PDF of Instructions.

O.K. I see now. It's your version of the In the Pink diorama.

 Mabe I out to try and find myself a copy of that booklet, and give it a shot. Gosh, I havn't seen it in years, and knowing my luck, it probably has been thrown out. I remember enough on how to make bullet and shrapnel holes, but not much else.

 I wonder if it was in the Fine Scale Modeler at one time, or if Revell still supplies it with their B-17 models.

Thanks for filling me in on your dio, chewybar

Yes it is Shepard Paine's In the Pink B-17 dio, but its down my way...I made this dio 8+ years old. this was my 1st dio for a aircraft. so i figured i would try and do something I liked and from some one who is awesome artist in are field

B17Pilot

Looks like my Fort made it into the reader's gallery last month.  They didn't even let me know!  Forgot to check till now. Here's the link:

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Outstanding and well deserved! 

Looks like my Fort made it into the reader's gallery last month.  They didn't even let me know!  Forgot to check till now. Here's the link:

/media/p/1303690.aspx

Lancair - that's one amazing bombbay!! Nice touch on the emergency gear extension ports.

chewybr

and heres some pictures of a diorama i built a few year ago, just before i stopped building models all together

 

Man, that looks a lot like the B-17 In The Pink, that was featured in that booklet in Revell's 1/48 scale B-17 kit. (am I right?) It looks great.

Bomb Bay is complete.

Cheers