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

Looks great at least you only had to do 2 engines:)

TREYZX10R

Looks great at least you only had to do 2 engines:)

Thanks Len . I got a lot of sky am decals left for the sparviero, you're welcome to them if you're wanting to build a different scheme from the box. Just let me know or pm your addy and I'll get them in the post to ya! Yea trumps got beefy boxes do'nt they lol

troublemaker66

How`d we wind up on page 2? 

Cause everybody's working on theirs and not posting anything

Those engines look AM, if so what set? Might have to get them for mine, if'n the kits engines aren't all that great.  Still like the wiring job.

B17Pilot

Those engines look AM, if so what set? Might have to get them for mine, if'n the kits engines aren't all that great.  Still like the wiring job.

Well some progress.  The life raft is painted and weathered, still needs a flat coat before getting installed, but here it is, its a little shiney without the flat coat on.

While that drys, I got the major assembly done.  Still have to add the nose and some weight, but it does look like a plane now.  Time for the dread filling and sanding part of modeling.

B-17Pilot,

Looking good. I remember building mine...what a PITA! Most of my sanding was trying to blend the nose into the fuse'.  I broke both barrels off of the dorsal .50`s too..lol. I hope you don`t have those problems but they seem to come in the box with the kit...lol.!

Len

Yea I think I'm going to break those guns off before I'm done with it.  Keep brushing up againist them and one of these times its going to be to much, and then they'll be gone, fed to the carpet monster.

B17, thats looking good. I will have some pics up this weekend what ever stage i am at. I had hoped i would be finished by the end of this month. But things haven't worked out like that and i don't even have the fuselage halves together yet.

B-17 pilot and Len- Sorry to hear about the fit issues with the AMT A-20. I've got that kit in my stash, although I kinda expected it would be a fill and sand kit . 

 I'd go ahead and clip the barrels off, drill out the ends of the guns a little to act as a locator. Then reattach the barrels as final assembly fiddly bits before mounting the 'glass dome on the turret. The barrels would be a touch shorter, but not by much, and you wouldn't be feeding the carpet monster a snack.

BTW Len great work on those engines. A lot can be done with most OOB motors. Just takes some old fashioned modeling ingenuity and a bit of work. Got an F6F that I didn't like the magnetos. Molded all the way back between the cylinders and the wrong shape. I carved the old ones out and scratched new ones out of bits of sheet plastic and sprue. Sometimes we have to work at it .

Howard 

Bish

B17, thats looking good. I will have some pics up this weekend what ever stage i am at. I had hoped i would be finished by the end of this month. But things haven't worked out like that and i don't even have the fuselage halves together yet.

Can't wait!

I'm going to try real hard to not break them (watch now that I said that the next time I pick it up, off they go).  So here's to watching what I'm doing and not break those barrels off.

B17 Pilot nice progress, I hate having to work around barrels and the like, usually break em anyway.

looking good @

Put weight in the nose and attached it to the fuselodge, and guess how many times I brushed those dang barrels? Yep, that's right every time I picked the thing up.  Thankfully they're still attached.

B17Pilot

Put weight in the nose and attached it to the fuselodge, and guess how many times I brushed those dang barrels? Yep, that's right every time I picked the thing up.  Thankfully they're still attached.

Pilot-  I'm gonna have to drop the B-25J from this build.  I've been committing too many builds to group builds and I don't have the time, so I'm cutting back a little.  I do still plan on building the B-25D though

No problem RedRaider, still looking forward to the B-25D

B17Pilot, any chance I join with Avro Lancaster Mk I/III by Rewell? My wife grandfather was flying them, thought to build it for her. It will be my first WWII airplane in many, many years.

BTW, that B-17 on the badge, the nose prop, is it real or photoshoped?

Cheers...

Castelnuovo - you're most certainly welcome to join.  Got you Lancaster on the list. to the GB!

Yes the B-17 on the badge is real.  Pratt and Whitney purchased surplus Forts after the war and converted them to engine test beds to test their new trurboprop engines.  The image is not photoshopped (other than the words being added). In fact BomberBoy is planning on modeling one in 1/72 scale for this GB.

Betty update,

Got the wings on and painted. The underside is IJN ligh grey, XF-12 ,cammo is XF-11 IJN green and XF-64 red brown. They`re the colors called for in the painting directions...looks a little dark to me.

Here`s a couple bad pics...after I get a littl more done I will take some better ones....

Finally, an update on my B-17. Despite starting nearly 6 weeks ago, due to a few things happening, progress has not been that great. But its picking up now so hopefully i will get moving along at a better pace.

So far i have glued very little plastic, its mostly been Eduard PE. Most of this is in the cockpit and radio room, there's only a little in the waist gun area.

The radio room. I am using Xtraclolour interior green for the insides. I then added pro modeller weathering wash in the recess and tamiya powered for the worn areas.

This has not been fitted into the right side of the fuselage, but the left side is still off so i can add the seats.

The cockpit. The IP has been added. The pro modeller needs toning down a bit in the recessed areas.

The right and left side of the forward fuselage area.

For those who saw my B-17 help thread, you can see the holders for the Oxygen tanks. I have ordered the quickboost set, and they should be there by the time i get back to work on Wednesday. And stikpusher really helped with a layout of the whole oxygen system.

And this is all my progress so far.

I finally get my caste off on Wednesday , so i will have full use of the hand again. Thats handy as i will be starting on the PE bomb bay.

Thanks for looking.

Len and Bish - Awesome progress ya'll!

Len, that Bettey is looking nice. I take it you have already fitted the engines, if you have a pic of them after painting would be nice to see that, as you did a great job on the wiring.

B-17, i meant to say before, i thought the pic from the GB badge was a photoshop. I thought that was a P-47 engine edited on the front of a 17.

Bish-

I think I forgot to take pics of the finished engines! They aren`t glued on yet...the fit is si tight I just pushed `em on for painting...was going to pop them off the wings to paint the anti-glare panels. I`ll try to take some pics...can`t remember if I glued the engine to the cowl...DOH!

No worries, if you can get pics, that would be greta. Be nice tgo see how you finished them.

Bish-

I popped the port engine out of the cowl. My lighting is not the best...I build in my "Florida" room (sun room) and it gets bright in here..too bright sometimes..lol.

Hopefully, in one of the 4 pics, you can see I used a very light wash of burnt umber. The crank case was painted bright aluminum.

Take Care,

Len

That was quick. Actually you can see it in 3 of the 4 pics. I hadn't thought of useing an oil wash on parts like this. I have only used it to dirty up armour. Normally i have just dry brushed and i think i added a pro modeller wash on my B-24 engines. But that burnt umber gives a nice finish.

Thats why i love this site, theres always something new that catchs the eye. Betwenn you and a couple of the guys on the 8th AAF GB, i have picked up 2 ideas just in time to try out on the 17.

Thanks for doing that

Looks like everyone is making nice progress. Go away for a couple of weeks and get left behind. The baseball trips are done until September so maybe I can get some work done. Nice trip this time Pittsburgh, Philly, and Houston. Red Sox nation does travel well

The top three pictures are the Revell B 25 J The bottom 3 are the Italeri. Both kits have fit issues around the cowls. The Italeri kit is terrible. Before I left I seriously considered giving up on ever getting a good fit... but I think I've got a handle on it now. On the Revel the biggest issue is the thickness of the cowl flaps. I sanded them from both the inside and outside and rescribed the individual flaps and managed to get a good fit with no step between the flaps and the nacelle. Plan on finishing the putty and sanding tonight and tomorrow then it's time for primer.

Welcome back j. You know i wouldn't have noticed that was 2 kits if you hadn't said, shows how observant i am. Could see the differences after i read that. What Model is the Italeri kit.

They are looking good, sounds like your putting alot of work in.