1/48 B17G Flying Fortress [Revell]

[Maglar]

Brought my baby to the plane wash! Took a cereal bowl and filled it with tap water, 1 min in microwave and dish detergent and an old toothbrush and scrubbed er' clean.Next will be a "seam" check with some primer, then if all is well I will liquid mask the windows then store away and work on the Catalina..

 

[Screaming Eagle]

Doing great Corey!

 

[Lucky13]

Agree, doing great mate!

 

[marek]

Looking great,mate! Keek working!

 

[Wayne Little]

8)

 

[Airframes]

Looks like it's cleaned up well Mag.

 

[rochie]

very nice

 

[109ROAMING]

Wow! Shes big! Looking good

 

[drgondog]

I have this kit. I plan on building it as part of one of th future group builds. So I will be watching you for hints on how to do it.

Here are two questions for all. Does anyone make any 305th Bomb Group decals for this kit? I would like to open the bomb bay doors. The kit has good bomb bay detail. Is there any after market details for this? I have seen detail sets for every other part of this kit.

Bill G.

About the only thing you need to make is the triangle G which is easy w/stencils if you can't find a scale G

 

[Maglar]

So I was drinking my diet pepsi and thought looking at the can.. NMF!

So I cut it up and then placed one of my bomb bay doors to it and cut it to shape, then used a ruler and blade to make the lines, Used CA glue to hold it down. Now its not perfect because I did it and took the pictures but I will be sanding some edges and such to get it to fit.. it was pretty quick and painless and looks a nice "plated" look.

 

[Wurger]

Nice progress here.Keep working...

 

[Maglar]

Thanks Woj, my biggest worry is my liquid mask holding up on the windows hoping that I got every little spot on the window and not letting my alclad penetrate it, busted windows would be a huge letdown!

 

[Wayne Little]

Agree with Wojtek, doing ok!

 

[Maglar]

Did some minor cutting and blade adjustments to the door, also gave it a light sanding which seemed to make it quite nice!!

 

[Wurger]

Looking good.

 

[muller]

Nice scratchbuilding Corey! That bird is HUGE! Those seams look great too.

 

[Airframes]

Keep it going Mag!

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice work so far!

 

[Maglar]

Did a seam check with primer, it went ok but my putty didnt take too kind to it. After a rather nice full coat the putty stuck through and didnt seem to take color or blend in with the seam. The color of my primer is milky gray-white. So I sanded the seams more and re-did some putty in gap areas, hope the next go around it turns out better!!