Boeing Build

You did a beauty job B1, love the engine covers. It looks like a monster. It may have fought you all the way but you prevailed. Good job sir 

Cody will get you up as soon as he can my man.

Thanks mach, i printed them from decal sheet.

Wow B1 that KC looks real nice! I particulaly like the engine inlet covers. Where did you get the 4 wing emblems for them?

Good job!

Finished up the KC-135R Conversion. She fought me all the way.

Well, I finally got started on this kit. I will be using it as filler work in between my other kits so I will be moving slowing with it. I am using this kit as a building test bed to practice the kit and to find areas where it needs improvement, scratch work, corrections and whatnot.

I have an extra PE set for the cockpit, but other than that I am planning mostly OOB with most likely a painted scheme. Not sure I really want to use that much Alclad mostly.

Anyway, here goes the work.

I have a squadron walk around and tons of pics and info on these birds mostly so I can really, REALLY doll up my visible B-17G that sits in my stash and has almost every resin or PE available for it. It's gonna be a huge undertaking, but this one is to learn on.

I used the IPMS info on paint and mixed my best quess of "bronze green" that I could muster until I was happy with the hue and tone. I used MM chromate green and added some MM gloss black until I got this color. It's not field green, it's not interior green, it's not chromate green, it's my best guess at bronze green. I am pretty happy with the color, it matches my photos in the walk around pretty well. I also used Mr Hobby Metalizer aluminum for the waist gunners area, it still needs to be polished, cleared and washed.

I have a lot, a LOT of detial painting to do so that will take some time. Here is where I stand thus far. Be patient, this one may take a while.

Thanks for looking

BK

Brandon,

I got you down brother.

Well Steve, if you're gonna be that way about it..........

It's a Revell 1/48 B-17G..paint and nose art yet to be determined.

Thanks,

BK

Oh Branbon, Brandon (sigh) you forgot my group build? 

That's cool, it's not like I've ever done that before. Tell you what, I'll get you on the roster if you tell me the make and scale. Sound fair?

Steve

Hey Steve, 

I forgot all about this build. I just started a build on my B-17G, early G, and haven't done much thus far. Can I add this one to the roster? I may, I say I may, get it done by next June. I have a WIP in the Aircraft forums if you would like to take a look.

BK

Ooo, you going to do the stressed skin as well??

greentracker98

I've decided to go this route. I was looking at google pics earlier and I like the camo over black. Lock, your 2 cents is pretty good advice. Like I said before, I like to keep things accurate. It looks a lot better that way.

It does look nice up close and personal like.  

I like the idea of Milliput for intake covers. I don't believe I don't believe I would have thought of that.

Almost finished with the 135, Since I suck at sealing seams in the intake area I decided to make inlet covers from some miliput. I am waiting for it to dry so I can give it a light sanding and cleanup. But it should look pretty good once painted up.

Ouch, Sorry to hear that. No worries at all. I hope it gets better soon.

Take care of yourself first.

Mach71-  Sorry about the delay on getting your photo up.  Nice work on a very difficult lookin kit!  Again my appologies for the delay. 

Its really been miserable around the work place here.  Last 3 or 4 days I have been lucky to get about four hours of sleep a night.  Not working well for me at all.  I feel like a dead man walking.  I wanna get my models started for the builds I have dedicated to but havent been able to work on them in about 3 months.  I took on a side buisness thats sucking the wallet dry to get it running.  So in order to fund it I have been working the Drafting at night for hours on end.  

Some day over the rainbow.... 

Thanks Allan.

I painted him as a hybrid Mercury astronaut and Chuck Yeager in the NF-104 from

"The Right Stuff".

Mach,

Beautiful build! Came out really nice.  And the pilot figure reminds me of scenes from "The Right Stuff."

Lockon

I would beg you to do not do it in a false scheme :)  How about the camo that is shown on the box?  It's a three color camo using similar colors over black so it would close to what you want.  My 2 cents :)

 

I've decided to go this route. I was looking at google pics earlier and I like the camo over black. Lock, your 2 cents is pretty good advice. Like I said before, I like to keep things accurate. It looks a lot better that way.

Thanks all for the compliments, Green tracker here is a link that may help you out on the various scemes the Buff wore.

http://www.strategic-air-command.com/aircraft/B-52/B-52_Stratofortress_Gallery_Profiles.htm

As for the KC-135 its time for Decals!

I would beg you to do not do it in a false scheme :)  How about the camo that is shown on the box?  It's a three color camo using similar colors over black so it would close to what you want.  My 2 cents :)

Thanks guys, For my purpose, I would be able to do the gunship gray. I don't plan on entering any contests, The only thing I would do is a local showing of it. That being said, I still like to strive for accuracy in all my builds and one never knows when a BUFF vet would show up and there are at least 2 Vietnam vets that I know of in our local modeling club.

 I'll think about it for a few days then decide what I'm going to do.

Thanks for all the input.

I'm afraid it's a lot more than the tail and chin pods.  The engines are totally different, the wings are different (but maybe no one would notice) and there are a lot of other bumps and antennas that have changed.  

Wouldn't the tail just need to be cropped for an H? The chin sensors would also need to be added.

That's a D model http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/rm/kit_rm_5709.shtml.  You can do quite a variety of schemes on it but not the Gunship Gray :(

I'm guessing its a D, can you post a photo of the tail?

Okay, Is this a D model? the box mentions only the D model. Does it have the taller tail? Thanks for the info on the  B-52s. I appreciate it. It can be tough when you are not around the subject you are attempting to duplicate.