Beginnings of a very visible B-17G - new pics 1/19

Gigatron.....I'd be happy to take those crew figures off your hands if you dont need them. I'm sure I could find a use for them.

 Allen.....That light panel is not a window, it's just another panel, not sure why it's so light in color. The windows dont start till just a bit before the trim tab on the rudder on both the stinger and cheyene tails.

Mel....that bomb bay is beautiful! The life raft storage compartment is a great touch.

I know I'm late with these pictures but maybe it will help out future builds of the B-17.  These are some of the ammo bins that went into the Lone Star Flight Museum's "Thunder Bird" and a couple shots of "909's" ball turrent from a couple weeks ago. 

Here are a few shots of my rendition from about 20 years ago.  I'll have to redo the frame to move it inward so I can add the ammo bins. 

I spent over three hours taking pictures, scaning some, and then transferring them to Photo Bucket where I lost them for a while.  I'm calling it a night!

Hey Gig,

She looks great !

I just found this thread:

The agony and the ecstasy. Your work makes me want to trash my own. It also serves to show me a level of excellence to strive for. I'm a novice builder putting together the same model and giving it the markings of my father's B-17, Woolf Pack, tail ID 297206. I thought the Revel model was difficult enough - what a laugh. Your work goes to another universe. Please keep up your postings, I'm still trying to get my model off the dinning room table. Sorry if this slobbering praise offends you old hands.

Fred.....looks awesome so far.

Im trying to track down the same kit here in NZ......Great work, and good luck

Marty

Hey, thanks for the compliments, guys

I haven't even touched the build in over a month thanks to a new job.  The next big step is painting and when I'm not flat out exhausted, the humidity is too high to paint.

Don't let my work discourage anyone from building their own.  What I want, is to inspre people to try things they'd never consider trying, whether it's PE, resin or scratchbuilding.  Try to do better than me - it isn't that hard .

There are times, when I wish I had just gone the OOB rout and had been done with it.  The PE in the wings have taken me over a month each thanks to the fragile spars.  Making O2 tanks from rod is time consuming, especially in this scale.  Just pick one task and work through it.  Need to make 1 O2 tank - might as well make all of them.  By the time you get to the last few, you'll have a technique that really works.

So get to work and be sure to post some pics.

-Fred