Boeing Build

Oh boy! Is that "Little Boy"?

WOW Jack, that is some really impressive modelling and a really sweet finish.

Wow. Beautiful work Jack... I have yet to put any of the wire rigging on my builds, I always seem to break that damn little "antenna(?)/Rigging post" on the tops of my planes. I have yet to build a biplane or anyhting like your P-26 with all that rigging.... I DID buy some EZ-line from the hobby shop however.....  GREAT WORK! Very inspiring.

I finished dull-coating my plane and parts this weekend, just need to put the cowlings and props on, little antennas, and remove the EZ-masks on the greenhouse... And put some hooks in the ceiling to hang this beast! 1:48 B-29..... nearly 36" wingspan(!!!)

  Rudy

Thank you MacLinus, Steve, and Sailor Steve.

There is no perfect build, at least not from me, but always striving.  This one should of been done almost 3 weeks ago, but kept having trouble with a pristine finish.  Like any author of these plastic creations, only they know where the warts and blemishes are.

regards,

Jack

I thought you said the Canadians never had any P-26es. Yet here you have a period photograph of one in those markings! Wait, whut? It's not a real picture?

Yes, your model is that good, and the b&w picture really is convincing. Beautiful work!

Calling her done.  To recap, this is AZmodel's 72nd scale Boeing P-26.  Brengun PE detail was added (mainly intererior), and resin Wasp engine from RADIAL ENGINES &WHEELS. Thank you Steve, for hosting this one.

regards,

Jack

MacLinus,

Will do. What is the scale and manufacturer?

Scott I LOVE how the B-17F came out. Have you seen the one they recovered from some jungle in the south pacific and is now on display in Hawaii? I beleive they are going to leave it in unrestored "as found" condition.

Bish, the Osprey Dio came out EXCELLENT! I really need to get going on a dio.....

Steve, that is an ambitious project! One I will be following! but if anybody can do it, its a guy who can HAND CARVE something in 1/2400(!!!) scale!!!

Great job guys, It has warmed up a bit, i will get out to the garage to fire up the stove and dull-coat over my decals and finish up my 1:48 Enola Gay B-29 Superfortress..... Rudy

Hi Steve, lookling forward to a new build from you.  Sounds like a neat project.

Bish, a glass is raised to you in making such a fine example of the Osprey.  That is a really great presentation of it.  Scott

Sailor Steve

That is gorgeous! The only Osprey I ever built was a tiny 1/2400 version I hand-carved 20+ years ago for some naval wargaming. I don't build too many modern aircraft anymore, but the concept of the Osprey is so foreign to me and so interesting that I have been tempted.

That said, I doubt I could come close to the artistry of your model.

 

Hand carved, wow, that must have been amost just a splinter in that scale. I don't do modern stuff that often, though i do have a few modern US kits. The Osprey is a strange concept. I live not that far away from RAF Mildenhall where the USAF has some based and i have seen them flying low a few times. they are loud buggers and pretty impressive to see flying.

Thanks for the comments guys. I need to go through and catch up what everyone else is upto.

Jack, this is one of those Verlinden ready made bases. I normally do my own but just wanted to use this up.

Bish, that is great little scene, and compliments the Osprey quite well.

Is the ground hand painted or something done on the printer?

regards,

Jack

Beautiful Bish, just beautiful! 

You really made the whole picture come alive.

Thank you so much for joining in, it was a real pleasure watching this come together.

Cody will get you up on the wall soon.

That is gorgeous! The only Osprey I ever built was a tiny 1/2400 version I hand-carved 20+ years ago for some naval wargaming. I don't build too many modern aircraft anymore, but the concept of the Osprey is so foreign to me and so interesting that I have been tempted.

That said, I doubt I could come close to the artistry of your model.

Ok guys, the moment you have all been waiting for, the Osprey is finally finished. (About bloody time i hear you all say )

The chocks i was going to get from Hannants have been out of stock for a while now, so i decided to bite the bullet and get another of the Hasegawa ground equipment sets. Thats now 4 i have and all chockless. Looks like i am going to have to build some more modern USAF aircraft and use some of those kits.

I kept the dio nice and simple, just the 4 crew about to board. I just wanted a nice simple one, but mainly, there was no way on earth i was going to paint that USMC camo on the ground crew in this scale. I ain't that mad. I used one Hase figure and the other 3 are from the Revell set, pretty nice figures.

And there you have it. Thanks for running the GB, been some really nice work in here so far, and really pleased to have had the chance to build this.

And now i have had to put my Arado to one side while i try and get hold of some.....

Yep, you guessed it, figures, this is a real lesson to stock up while i can. 72nd aircrew figures are the bain of my modelling life. Why do we do this to ourselves, why i ask, WHY.

I've decided what I want to build. Actually I decided a week ago, but I've put off saying anything, not to be secretive, but to make sure I could actually do it, and to gather information.

I thought again about all the odd models I'd like to build - the 40, the 80, and the 200 - and then it hit me: This GB was created to celebrate the first flight of the first Boeing, so why not try to build the Model 1?

Before I said anything I wanted to see what plans and photos I could find. I came up with a good three-view drawing and several old photographs of the original, plus some pictures of a full-scale flying replica someone built some years ago. This now hangs in the Boeing Museum, so I emailed them asking if they had pictures or descriptions of the interior. It's been five days and I haven't heard anything back yet, so I decided it would be rude to delay it any longer.

I put the plans into a desktop publishing program and resized them to 1/72, based on the dimensions given by Peter Bowers in Boeing Aircraft: 1916 to the Present. I have an architect's ruler I've been using for forty years that has one facet scaled to 1/720, which of course can be used for 1/72 if you don't mind each scale foot having 10 divisions instead of 12 inches. Last night I ordered online a true 1/72 ruler, marked in feet as well as metric divisions. I've also ordered some model railroad scale louvres, hoping they'll be the right size for the rows of louvres on either side of the cowling. If not, I'm going to have to learn how to make them myself.

Technically it's not started yet, but I have begun gathering materials and going over it in my head. Obviously it's going to be a scratchbuild.

scottrc

Steve,

I really like the 299, and if it was the Acedemy Kit you converted it from, then its was a major accomplishment

Not as major as it might seem. The fuselage and clear parts were from the RarePlanes Y1B-17, and the Academy wings and stabilizers were almost a perfect match.

Oh, and "Lilly" is lovely. The extra work paid off.

Thanks everyone, the support one gets on these group builds really makes getting through the tough areas of a build so much easier and fun.

Scott, great job in getting the Fort into shipshape.  I can't see any of the hardships, looks to be a fine build really.

regards,
Jack

scottrc,

Your Lilly looks great  just fantastic, really makes me want to build a 17, love that bird.

Cody willl get you on the all shortly.

Well Boeing GB members, its time for me to say I am completed with the B17F.  Its about as far as I can go until I get some pastels to finish the exhaust staining.  And that might be a few years since I am into other projects.  To say the least, this kit surprised me in that I thought it was going to be a pretty easy build.  Its wasn't.  Things started going down hill with all of the clear parts being oversized and too thick and had to be sanded to fit, and one of the windows popped open after the build was completed.  And then the gaps in the fuselage and wings required a lot of work.  Not to mention a ton of masking of tiny windows in order to paint and then remask to apply the clearcoat.  All in all, I am happy with the build and I now have a B17F in my collection.  I wanted the F because it took the brunt of the bombing campaign in 1942 and 1943.  The "Lilly" had a tough and tragic story and I'm glad they had the decal set for this plane.  The final pics are it with my old B17G I built 36 years ago.  I was in the eigth grade then and its fun to see the transition in how I built and painted models back then.  Scott