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Still Too Many Props GB - 2013

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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:33 AM

Great work there TREY as always. The pit is coming along very nicely. Now where do you keep disappearing to.

Clemens, that looks a beaut, but a bit to big for my liking. I think I will stick to my Academy kits.

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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    April 2013
Posted by SchattenSpartan on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:38 AM

It sure is big, but I like me some big planes Big Smile

Can't wait 'till this goes into production...

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    September 2009
  • From: Frisco, TX
Posted by B17Pilot on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:44 AM

Great now I need one of those! Not really but can't resist B-17s, especially one that big! Resistance is futile.

So my question is this, when's the release date? Well, that's too long.

  

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Posted by SchattenSpartan on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:57 AM

I don't know the release date sadly... But I think it wont be that long.

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    August 2009
  • From: Borlando Fla home of the rat
Posted by TREYZX10R on Monday, June 3, 2013 7:31 PM
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  • From: Borlando Fla home of the rat
Posted by TREYZX10R on Thursday, June 6, 2013 7:59 PM

The sights are mounted,almost forgot to put the windows in before hand! I had to do some fine sanding to get the windows in place due to the resin,the gun window had to be razor sawed apart to fit.

  • Member since
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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Friday, June 7, 2013 2:24 AM

TREY, that is looking awesome. Your not wrong about the kit supplied bomb sight being a bit big.

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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    July 2007
  • From: Southern New Jersey
Posted by troublemaker66 on Friday, June 7, 2013 4:39 AM

Trey.....That looks awesome! I have the "visible" kit and was planning on super detailing it...had all the PE and was working on resin when the hurricane hit. The salt water destroyed 99% of the PE...just turned it into brittle junk.  Anyway, when  I do mine I was thinking about a shadow box because, even though the port fuse` is clear, you still won`t be able to see everything. Either that or a cutaway in a diorama....just hate to do all that work and close it up. Are you planning something similar? 

Len

Len Pytlewski

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Posted by SchattenSpartan on Friday, June 7, 2013 1:03 PM

Trey, I can only agree with the others, your B-17 looks really awesome!!!

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  • From: Borlando Fla home of the rat
Posted by TREYZX10R on Friday, June 7, 2013 10:44 PM

Bish thanks !

Len really a shame you lost all those resin goodies,although I know thats small change compared to all the other damage. Hope things are getting back to some normalcy for you. I'm going to button it all up,but will be adding some fibre optic interior lighting and opening up all the hatches. Looking forward to seeing your shadow box idea ,cheers!

Schattenspartan thank you!

I'm moving aft again with the gun turret assemblies and the other side mounted 50's. Ordered a Verlinden set to upgrade it a bit

Also some brass barrels. These are really nicely made and are quite impressive considering how tiny those cooling jackets are!

  • Member since
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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Saturday, June 8, 2013 5:04 AM

Len, sorry to hear about that. I didn't realise salt Water would damage PE like that. Was it in the water for very long.

TREY, that looks like a nice detail set. I am a big fan of metal barrels, I use master one for my 72nd builds. Those RB barrels look really nice, they don't do 72nd aircraft barrels but I have used a few of their 35th armour ones and they are really nice.

What did you use for the barrels on the nose turret.

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

  • Member since
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  • From: Frisco, TX
Posted by B17Pilot on Monday, June 10, 2013 8:55 AM

Awesome, Trey! Love it and want to marry your B-17!

Currently up'ing my Microsoft certs so I haven't had much bench time. I did get my B-26 started before and have gotten the cockpit done and installed. Was finishing up the top turret before I stopped. Hopeful to get back to it by August.

  

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  • From: Borlando Fla home of the rat
Posted by TREYZX10R on Monday, June 10, 2013 8:51 PM

Bish appreciate the kind words. I agree the metal barrels are the way to go and worth the money too! I've just got the kit supplied gun barrels in the nose turret for now,after painting I'll be putting metal barrels in. I'm cutting the resin flash guards from the verlinden set and using them for the ends.

B17PILOT Thanks! Thought you were someone else for a moment with the marriage proposal lol. Looking forward to seeing some pics of your 26,did it use a sperry turret up top?

Cut off the plastic barrels and drilled holes for the metal ones

I added some ammo cans for a little more detail.

Not a lot of this will be seen once its buttoned up just had to add a little something to the otherwise stark assembly. Looking at photos of the real turret it was quite busy in there and rather tight,nothing compared to the close quarters in the ball turret of course.

Test fit looks good

on to the ball turret next!

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 3:29 AM

I did wonder about those nose barrels. I haven't found any metal barrels that come with those flash guards fitted.

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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    July 2011
Posted by maharrin on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:37 AM

I haven't seen any that come with the metal barrels either, but they are included in the Eduard Nose Interior (x2) and Rear Interior (x2) PE sets, and some good resin ones (x4) in the Quickboost B-17 Gun Barrels set.

On the bench: 1/48 B-17 Diorama

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    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:30 AM

I have seen them in the Quickbost sets. That's the ones I am going for  my B-17 and B-24's as the cost of a full set of those is the same as two metal barrels. But I would have thought Master would have come up with the barrels with the flash guards.

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

  • Member since
    August 2009
  • From: Borlando Fla home of the rat
Posted by TREYZX10R on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:08 PM

To me it would make sense to offer up a set for each multiple gun application,if you're listening Master marketers ,hint ,hint. My life would have been so much easier to just order up a 'G' B-17 upgrade and been done with it.

This is a productive day in the build as the sub assemblies start to fall in place! The major components are installed and once the tail gunner area is squared away I can button this bad boy up!!!

  • Member since
    April 2004
  • From: Sydney
Posted by cossack on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 4:53 AM

Trey,

Such a pity to see it all boxed away.  However, after such a wonderful job on the inside, I can't wait to see you weave your magic on the outside

Paul

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    April 2013
Posted by SchattenSpartan on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 12:27 PM

That's some really impressive stuff, Trey!

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  • From: italy
Posted by bsyamato on Friday, June 14, 2013 11:29 AM

Hi guys! still in time to join?

I have actually 3 planes tha probably meets requirements :)

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  • From: Frisco, TX
Posted by B17Pilot on Friday, June 14, 2013 1:25 PM

Trey, I'm going OOB on the B-26, don't think a Sperry was installed in the actual aircraft, not sure though.

Bsyamato - Join anytime, end date is Dec 31, so you still have time. What are you going to build?

  

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  • From: italy
Posted by bsyamato on Friday, June 14, 2013 4:47 PM

Thanx B-17 Pilot :)

The three options are the following 1/72 kits:

Trmpeter tu-95ms bear H, main pieces glued togheter (wings and fliyng surfaces) but fuselage again opened and lots of works to do

the Revell Do-24T with cockpit resin set, here wings pieces glued toghether too and started some work on fuselage

And the hasegawa Shinmaywa Us-1a. Wings , flaps and engines glued toghrther and fuselage not glued with some started work

I'm good with one of these , no preference for the kit to submit , i'm working on all by rotation on the workbench 

Let the choice to you Embarrassed

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    April 2013
Posted by SchattenSpartan on Friday, June 14, 2013 5:35 PM

I'd like to see your progress on the 2nd one! It just looks so awesome! The 3rd one looks cool as well!

Cheers Clemens

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    April 2013
Posted by SchattenSpartan on Friday, June 14, 2013 5:37 PM

Uhm, B-17Pilot? Could you please change my entry for this GB? I'd like to build the B-25 with those custom decals when I gained more experience... I'll tell you tomorrow what I'm up to instead...

Cheers, Clemens

  • Member since
    April 2013
Posted by SchattenSpartan on Saturday, June 15, 2013 2:02 PM

I'd like to build this one instead:

with the addition of the following goodies:

  • Eduard masks
  • Eduard cockpit PE
  • Eduard "greenhouse" interior PE
  • HGW belts for the pilot seats
  • Eduard Brassin wheels
  • Profimodeller M2 gun barrels
  • Kits-World stencilling decals
  • Correct resin props (still have to find some; any ideas?)

I'll build "Meet Mrs Runyon" using this decal sheet:

I have to wait 3-6 weeks for all the AM stuff to arrive though...

Cheers, Clemens

  • Member since
    September 2009
  • From: Frisco, TX
Posted by B17Pilot on Sunday, June 16, 2013 4:35 PM

Bsyamato - I put you down for all three, since you're building all three at the same time! Plus you don't see those built very much, so all three are in!

SchattenSparten - I've changed your build to the 1/32 B-25, can't wait to see it! I've got one in the stash, so I am looking forward to your build.

  

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  • From: italy
Posted by bsyamato on Sunday, June 16, 2013 7:32 PM

Glad to join the group B17 Pilot Toast

Mhh Hmm it's too hard but i'll try .

I'm about finish my first four engine plane, the halifax from revell (the old matchbox not the new tool) for a friend and gain some experience to use on larger planes :)

As i have time to write will introduce all three kits with done work, here the first, the Do-24 from revell, a rebox of old italeri kit (lately italeri ennanched the moulds and put sales a new box!) wit gofty model cockpit set

Box'n'sprues

I'm not used to manage after market sets, i prefere to scratchbuild it  and save money for more kits but all these three kits comes from a private sale at very low price Propeller

First mod was a cut on the upper fuselage doors and corrected their size, too narrow (the original door size is the one near the little windows.. to close!) , also glued all windows in reverse mode, windows turned and glued from the outside instead from inside (a trick recently learned)

The inner will be detailed with structures so i prepared a smooth surface and filled the floating gaps with plastic sheets and putty

Canopy top opened, will try to open all possible acces door, also the original top was partially wrong

Wings junction gaps was filled in some way

free from base the resin pieces with some unappropriated tool Embarrassed ,some unwished break too

Some dry fittings

After these works just glued the engine cowling toghether but no pictures :) 

At the next!

  • Member since
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  • From: Borlando Fla home of the rat
Posted by TREYZX10R on Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:25 PM

Thanks for all the kind words everyone it really helps keeping me motivated!

Bsyamato really looking forward to seeing more of the Do24 its one of my favs!

I've gotten the nav desk and seat in place,used the kit part for the desk top and cut it down to size.. Will start on the tail gun position next.

 

 

  • Member since
    July 2007
  • From: Southern New Jersey
Posted by troublemaker66 on Monday, June 17, 2013 4:52 AM

SchattenSpartan

I'd like to build this one instead:

with the addition of the following goodies:

  • Eduard masks
  • Eduard cockpit PE
  • Eduard "greenhouse" interior PE
  • HGW belts for the pilot seats
  • Eduard Brassin wheels
  • Profimodeller M2 gun barrels
  • Kits-World stencilling decals
  • Correct resin props (still have to find some; any ideas?)

I'll build "Meet Mrs Runyon" using this decal sheet:

I have to wait 3-6 weeks for all the AM stuff to arrive though...

Cheers, Clemens

That`ll be an awesome build Clemens! Hope "Nanny Bot" doesn`t see that nose art...lol

Len Pytlewski

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 4:50 PM

Great work Trey. I was just checking the pics of my 17F and the front looks empty compared to yours. I think I will have to put extra effort into my G.

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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