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Way Too Many Props GB April 18, 2011 - Extended to July 28, 2012

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  • From: Rothesay, NB Canada
Posted by VanceCrozier on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:12 AM

p38jl

...ok,, getting ready to start my build...first. to get the kit outa  the stash...hummm,, can he do it with out knocking the pile down.. lol.. its the X/YB-35....http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx7/pthrtyeghtpic/2manyprop.jpg:550:0]

Flying wing huh... did the Horten brothers get commission on that one? Wink

On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister

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Posted by jbrady on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:20 AM

Funny you should mention the Hortons. I watched this last night... http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/hitler-s-stealth-fighter-3942/Overview56#tab-Photos/0

   

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Posted by p38jl on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:23 AM

VanceCrozier

 p38jl:

...ok,, getting ready to start my build...first. to get the kit outa  the stash...hummm,, can he do it with out knocking the pile down.. lol.. its the X/YB-35....http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx7/pthrtyeghtpic/2manyprop.jpg:550:0]

 

Flying wing huh... did the Horten brothers get commission on that one? Wink

   lol. nope Jack Northrup was his own man... Yes

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Posted by VanceCrozier on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:29 AM

Maybe Jack was the elusive third brother...

On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister

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Posted by DoogsATX on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:45 AM

VanceCrozier

Maybe Jack was the elusive third brother...

If you assign numerical values to the letters in Jack Northrop's name, the sum of those numbers is 229.

 

On the Bench: 1/32 Trumpeter P-47 | 1/32 Hasegawa Bf 109G | 1/144 Eduard MiG-21MF x2

On Deck:  1/350 HMS Dreadnought

Blog/Completed Builds: doogsmodels.com

 

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Posted by VanceCrozier on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:46 AM

DoogsATX

 

 VanceCrozier:

 

Maybe Jack was the elusive third brother...

 

 

If you assign numerical values to the letters in Jack Northrop's name, the sum of those numbers is 229.

Wink

On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister

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Posted by redraider56 on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:55 AM

I spot a B-17

-Matt

On The Bench: 1/48 HK B-17G "Man-O-War II"

On Deck: 1/48 Tamiya P-38H, 1/48 Revell PV-1

 

 

 

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Posted by B17Pilot on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:40 PM

Daddy1 - Got you down with your C-47.  Can't wait to see it!

  

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Posted by p38jl on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:59 PM

redraider56

I spot a B-17

lol  u do.. or whats left of it.. It was a B-17F, Memphis Belle.. it hung in my office at my previous job untill the cleaning lady accidently whacked it with her vacuum...

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Posted by VanceCrozier on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 1:07 PM

p38jl

 

 redraider56:

 

I spot a B-17

 

lol  u do.. or whats left of it.. It was a B-17F, Memphis Belle.. it hung in my office at my previous job untill the cleaning lady accidently whacked it with her vacuum...

 

A moment of silence for the Belle - the bird survived an entire tour, then got whacked by the cleaning lady... was she of German heritage??

On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister

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Posted by B17Pilot on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 1:11 PM

VanceCrozier

A moment of silence for the Belle - the bird survived an entire tour, then got whacked by the cleaning lady... was she of German heritage??

Manny probably sent her Wink

  

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Posted by redraider56 on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 4:56 PM

B17Pilot

 

 VanceCrozier:

 

A moment of silence for the Belle - the bird survived an entire tour, then got whacked by the cleaning lady... was she of German heritage??

 

 

Manny probably sent her Wink

wouldnt doubt it.....he never was a fan of the 1/48 B-17s

-Matt

On The Bench: 1/48 HK B-17G "Man-O-War II"

On Deck: 1/48 Tamiya P-38H, 1/48 Revell PV-1

 

 

 

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Posted by daddy1 on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 5:07 PM

B17Pilot

Daddy1 - Got you down with your C-47.  Can't wait to see it!

I'll start on it as soon as I finish up the F6F for the Ally cat GB and a Halls Bulldog for the Racer GB . The Hellcat will be going into paint pretty soon and the Bulldog is a fairly simple build so it shouldn't be too long.

I'll probably build OOB since the kit is pretty well detailed with a fair amount of PE . I was looking for an excuse to build it as the box was taking up a good deal of storage space in the stash.LOL Looking forward to sharing it here. 

Actually had several I was thinking of but, everybody's got a soft spot for the ol' Goony Bird.

Howard

 

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Posted by troublemaker66 on Friday, May 13, 2011 7:49 AM

Hi All,

         Got a little more cockpit work done on the G4M1 "Betty" between proms,school plays and concerts....

The PE IP with acetate dials....

 

I did a little plumbing on the rear of the IP...I think it`ll be visible thru the canopy...

Needs a little cleaning up.

PE lap belts and arm rests...have to paint the lap belts....

 

That`s it for now...hopefully I`ll be able to knock a bunch of work out tonight.

Thanks for looking,

Len

Len Pytlewski

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Posted by Bish on Friday, May 13, 2011 7:56 AM

Thats looking very nice Len. And love the wiring at the back of the IP. What did you use for that.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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Posted by B17Pilot on Friday, May 13, 2011 8:31 AM

Bish

Thats looking very nice Len. And love the wiring at the back of the IP. What did you use for that.

Ditto

  

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Posted by troublemaker66 on Friday, May 13, 2011 1:05 PM

B17Pilot

 Bish:

Thats looking very nice Len. And love the wiring at the back of the IP. What did you use for that.

 

Ditto

Thanks Men! I had this spool of wire lying around the bench forever...it`s really thin, galvanized (I think) wire...might`ve been for beading. It`s fairly rigid and holds bends pretty good, not like copper, all soft and bends if you look at it too hard!

Thanks again for the kind words!

Len

Len Pytlewski

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Posted by daddy1 on Friday, May 13, 2011 8:42 PM

Nice IP LenYes.  The C-47 I'll be building also has the acetate film instrument faces. I'm trying to think of some way to back lite them and other areas of the interior of my Trumpeter kit. Maybe with fiber opticsIdea.

Howard

BTW P38jl -I spy a couple old Monogram white box P-47s inyour stash. CoolCool! Has it really been that long since those boxes were on the store shelves. Used to buy them even at my local Walgreens in the toy aisle.

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Friday, May 13, 2011 11:02 PM

redraider56

Pilot, add a Monogram 1/48 B-25J gun nose under my name.  My current builds have been going ahead of schedule and the gun nose is just begging for a dio, so I think that's gonna be my winter project this year

Do tell.. A diorama for that bird would rock.. Actually, dioramas are my thing, so they all rock, lol.. But the B-25 offers SO many possibilties... Shep Paine's derelect B-25H in the desert  was awesome work, and told a story with no figures, no action... Just a rattlesnake under a wing and an oil drum spray-painted with "No Trespassing"...

Got any specfic dio ideas you're willing to share?

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Posted by jbrady on Saturday, May 14, 2011 7:49 AM

Some progress on both 25's.

The top pic is the cockpit from the Monogram J model, the bottom is AM/Italeri D model. What's surprising to me is the similiarity of the enginering on kits designed 20 years apart. I guess Monogram got it right and there's no reason to reinvent the wheel. I like the injection molding on the Monogram IP over the AM version even though neither IP looks anything like a B 25 IP. The detail on the AM version is sharper and more delicate than the Monogram. Both cockpits need a wash and some drybrushing. Getting close to buttoning up both fuselages. The interiors of both of these kits have a lot of detail that won't be seen in the finished product.

   

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Posted by TREYZX10R on Saturday, May 14, 2011 9:02 AM

Len looking good so far nice job on the wiring.

jbrady the offices look great,intresting about the kits being so far apart in years yet so similar

Scratching the exhaust on the mills ,just need to fit in the head pipes all 54 of 'em yikes

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Posted by jbrady on Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:43 AM

Trey, If I had 54 headers on my hemi would it go way fast???

Anyone know where I can find AM M2's? The quality of the guns on both kits is pi$$ poor (I'm being kind).

   

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Posted by TREYZX10R on Saturday, May 14, 2011 11:54 AM

jbrady

Trey, If I had 54 headers on my hemi would it go way fast???

Anyone know where I can find AM M2's? The quality of the guns on both kits is pi$$ poor (I'm being kind).

Yes it would but it might be a tad heavy lol .I found these on evil Bay while looking for some other goodies .The seller has lots of am stuff but its in Poland ,never purchased from them but considering ordering some cannon barrels hope that helps

http://cgi.ebay.com/1-48-RB-MODEL-48AB01-TWO-BARRELS-0-5-AN-M2-BROWNING-/130512312945?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e6323da71

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Posted by jbrady on Saturday, May 14, 2011 2:04 PM

Nice barrels Trey, but I'm looking for the entire gun. I saw some really nice M2s somewhere on this site... can't remember if it was a group build or in the armor forum. I'll keep looking.

   

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Posted by TREYZX10R on Saturday, May 14, 2011 2:44 PM

jbrady

Nice barrels Trey, but I'm looking for the entire gun. I saw some really nice M2s somewhere on this site... can't remember if it was a group build or in the armor forum. I'll keep looking.

maybe these ?

http://www.spruebrothers.com/Nexternal/148-fine-molds-m2-browning-machine-gun-ac-2.htm

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Posted by TREYZX10R on Saturday, May 14, 2011 3:43 PM

Dry test fit with the major components

going with the flaps down on this build

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Posted by troublemaker66 on Saturday, May 14, 2011 4:16 PM

TREYZX10R

Dry test fit with the major components

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v710/treyzx10r/Aircraft%20kits%20part2/sm79testfit002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v710/treyzx10r/Aircraft%20kits%20part2/sm79testfit003.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v710/treyzx10r/Aircraft%20kits%20part2/sm79testfit007.jpg

going with the flaps down on this build

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v710/treyzx10r/Aircraft%20kits%20part2/sm79testfit004.jpg

  Looking good so far!  I have that kit in the stashola...want to pick up the PE sets for it before I start it. I`ll be keeping an eye on your build.

Len

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Posted by jbrady on Saturday, May 14, 2011 5:55 PM

Trey, I' impressed with overall fit. it looks like the clear part is going to fit well with the rest of the fuselage...

   

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Posted by DoogsATX on Saturday, May 14, 2011 7:59 PM

jbrady

Nice barrels Trey, but I'm looking for the entire gun. I saw some really nice M2s somewhere on this site... can't remember if it was a group build or in the armor forum. I'll keep looking.

Vector makes full M2s.

http://ultracast.ca/products/Vector/48%20Scale/VDS48-009/default.htm 

Quickboost also makes the fuselage blister pods...they're labeled for a B-26, but they'll work on a -25.

On the Bench: 1/32 Trumpeter P-47 | 1/32 Hasegawa Bf 109G | 1/144 Eduard MiG-21MF x2

On Deck:  1/350 HMS Dreadnought

Blog/Completed Builds: doogsmodels.com

 

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Posted by redraider56 on Saturday, May 14, 2011 8:02 PM

Hans, I do have some ideas of what I'm gonna do.  I've been tossing around ideas for the last couple months and think I know what I'm gonna do.  I was originally gonna have 2 B-25s, a glass nose J and a gun nose J and have them together with the glass nose being beat up and having repairs done to her and then have and almost brand new gun nose next her with her nose opened up and getting loaded for a mission.

After realizing that that would take up some serious space I decided I'm just gonna do a gun nose with maintenance being done on her.  I'm gonna open up an engine and put some scaffolding under it with some ground crew tinkering with it, and then I'm gonna open up the nose too and have a guy working on the guns.  I'm thinking I might have a table put up somehwere where a guy is cleaning and working on some .50s. 

I've got hooked on dios working on the one for my B-17 (still plugging away at it) and decided I need to do a Pacific scene now.

 

EDIT: I took a peek on the website with Shep's dios to see the B-25, and I noticed his P-61 dio is very similar to what I plan on doing with my B-25

-Matt

On The Bench: 1/48 HK B-17G "Man-O-War II"

On Deck: 1/48 Tamiya P-38H, 1/48 Revell PV-1

 

 

 

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