1/48 Monogram B-17G Flying Fortress

fermis wrote:

Rob, I hate to do it, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. There is another contest comming up in Bay City on the 18th.  http://www.midmichiganmodelmakers.com/   Your work is awesome and needs to be seen, by more than just us here!!!

Thanks Fermis.  I kind of knew about this, but haven't thought about it much.  Maybe I'll bring the Camel and a couple of others.  Maybe.  I'll let you know.

Thanks

 Rob, I hate to do it, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. There is another contest comming up in Bay City on the 18th.

 http://www.midmichiganmodelmakers.com/ 

 Your work is awesome and needs to be seen, by more than just us here!!!

Spent the past 2 days finishing up my taxes and finally got around to working on the Fort again.

Made a bunch of Oxygen Tanks and Fire Extinguishers

Left Waist Gunner Position

Right Waist Gunners Position

More tomorrow

Thanks for looking

Cheers

No, it's aluminum, just a reflection.  Here is a better shot. 

Looked though all my pix again and this is the only one I have cropped from a larger pic.

What get's me is I took pix of the intakes on the leading edge but not the light.

Eric... 

B-17 Guy,

I can always re-crop the picture to show the engine and cowling more if you need it.  I would lean more to natural aluminum for the interior area around the light lens.

Thanks to all of you, those pics are pretty helpful, I might be able to finnish off the wings of my 2 forts now. I've been debating as to which color to put in the space around the light itself under the outer lens. I'm leaning towards neutral grey now.

I like those pics of the early forts mel, thanks for those.

Here are the Landing light pic's of the B-17C and a shot my Dad took in Australia that is of a C posssibly the Swoose.

Cropped picture of wing area B-17C from reference material

Cropped picture of the Swoose from reference material.

Picture my Dad took.

That pic I linked is from the restoration of the Memphis Belle.

The Swoose is right next to it.

Eric... 

Eric,

Great shot!  The detail on the fire wall would come in handy for any "engine changes".  Thanks for sharing! 

No bother, kinda fun researching the B-17 again.  I got the pic out of one of my references.  Actually have one of the Swoose's landing light too!  It's cut off on one side.  Taken while in Australia I think.  I have a distance shot about a 2x3 old black and white taken by my Dad that appears to be the Swoose.  Dad passed back in 1989.  Too small to be able to authenicate but it's in the same area as the ones in the book.  Waiting on the "extraction" bird this morning, hot out here, may be late if there is fog on the beach.  We will be on the AB-139 this morning.  Hovers too tail heavy for my likes but hauls butt!   

Perhaps this will help.

Eric... 

D6......Oh dont worry about it, I'll figure something out, I dont want to be a bother.

Mel.....where'd you get pics of a C model? The swoose is the only C/D that I know to exist, and as far I know, she's not on display at wright-pat yet.

I've got a fairly good shot of a "C" model landing light, probably the same.  I attempted to scan it but it's lost in cyberspace and now the scaner won't work.  Durn "network" stuff.  I'll be home tomorrow if it doesn't magically appear later and I'll scan it then and post it. 

B-17 Guy wrote:

the landing lights?

Unfortunaly no.

I could go over to Castle and take some pix of the bird over there, exterior only.

My Credit Union is on the old base grounds next to the museum. 

Eric... 

Division 6 wrote:

I mentioned to Mel that I took about 95 pix of the 909 a few years ago. Didn't get everything, but if you need something let me know and I will see if I have any pix of what your after.   Eric...

Any pics of the landing lights?

How much of the tail did you chpp off? Or did you just go with trial and error.

I mentioned to Mel that I took about 95 pix of the 909 a few years ago.

Didn't get everything, but if you need something let me know and I will see if I have any pix of what your after.

Eric... 

Rob,

Looks good!  Sorry about the "late" info.  We got to researching it when Swanny had misplaced his staggered waist on the YB-40.  Thanks to Eric and Tony for their help.

Long day today.  What started off as a day to get the Cheyenne tail detailed and finish the tail of the aircraft ended up a day of relocating the right waist gunners window again.  Thanks Melgyver.

Right waist gunners position relocated again to the correct position

Cheyenne Tail Window in place

Window and turret together

Modified fuselage for Cheyenne Turret

Tail Wheel Assembly painted

Tail Wheel Assembly detailed and weathered

More tomorrow

Cheers

Rob,

Congratulations on both counts!  I remember when my daughter graduated from college, still proud of her!  

We just home from my sons graduation in Chicago. Had a great time and we're really proud of him. When we arrived home, a package from Revel was in the mail box. My Cheyenne turret. Unbelieveable.......Didn't cost me a dime. What a great company.  Thanks B17 Guy.

Anyway....here's the proud parents and the graduate

Cheyenne turret

Cheers

Looking good, Lancair!

New tail wheel is done less paint. It functioned for 2 retractions then it all broke. Trying to keep things to scale and still operate is almost impossible (for me). Anyway, the tail wheel does turn and rotate freely, so that's better than nothing I guess. The ammo casing bags are also installed and need detail added.

Taking a couple of days off to go to Chicago for my sons graduation from UTI.

Right hand ammo casing bag

WOW......After looking at the picture of the right fuselage where I moved the window, I still have a lot of clean up work to do.......

Left hand ammo casing bag

New tail wheel less paint

Cheers

Today I received access to the B-17 Erection and Maintenance Manual.  That's the good news. 

The bad news is my tail wheel is not right. 

Back to the drawing board.  Do I make it operate?  I'm going to try.........

I also corrected the bad paint on the generator shelf this morning.

Cheers

Generator has been installed into the right fuselage, ammo boxes are painted as well as the ammo casing collection bags.

Installed generator

Looking at the generator thru the rear access door

Ammo boxes painted and ready to install

Ammo casing collection bags ready to install

Cheers

apprentice68 wrote:

Lancair, Sorry for the confusion about who started this thread.Everything is looking good from all the builders.Glad you got this started. Thanks, Chris

No problem........

Lancair,

Sorry for the confusion about who started this thread.Everything is looking good from all the builders.Glad you got this started. Thanks, Chris

Hans,

I completely understand what you are saying, but I don't think raised lines duplicate the overlapping panels correctly either.At least not in all areas of the airframe.IMO, the engraved lines look better, especially where the panels are butt joints.Not correct either, but better in certain areas..Also, I am leaving certain areas raised, for instance the pic showing the raised areas on the nose, and certain other areas,where it is very obvious that they belong that way(raised).I guess it is in the eye of the beholder.To me the engraved lines look better to duplicate certain lines. I have alot of refernce materials, so its not like I haven't researched,but I think a combo of both can LOOK  authentic.I will take a look at adding some raised lines where panels overlap,but where they butt together it will be scribed.Thanks, Chris F.