352nd Fighter Group "Blue Nosed Bastards of Bodney" Build

[Lucky13]

More than I've ever done H! Well done!

 

[B-17engineer]

Feeling really bad about messing this one I decided to get the decals on and the last of the fidly bits.....

DEFINITELY will be redone in the future...for sure.

Also the seatbelts for the P-51B.

Will do the neccessary touch ups...some aren't bad. I avoided decaling the ones that were....will do that tomorrow.

 

[Crimea_River]

Seatbelts look pretty damn good H.

 

[B-17engineer]

Thanks Andy!

 

[croato]

It wasn't so difficult, wasn't it ? Some times you just have tu get a kick in the *ss to do things better.
You did an exellent job
croato

 

[B-17engineer]

No it wasn't, I was well into this one and didn't want to add them. When I redo it, it will have them.

Thanks!

 

[Wurger]

Very nice work on the seat belts H~.

 

[B-17engineer]

Thanks a lot Wojtek, appreciate it!

 

[Airframes]

Good work there H, you're coming on nicely. One thing though, didn't Cripes III only have the AEAF stripes on the lower fuselage and sides? You can still paint over the top part if needed, and the upper wing stripes would have been removed too. Unless you make it pre late August 1944.

 

[B-17engineer]

Terry its as it would look in Late June 1944. Full invasion stripe and all. I'll post the profiles an pictures I went off of. Thanks!

 

[Airframes]

No probs. I thought it was as when shot down on Christmas day, as shown in the original profile posted. It's correct for late June.

 

[B-17engineer]

Oh this wouldn't be the one of Christmas day. Christmas day was the D-15 flown by Preddy after he was moved to the 428th FG and had a red rudder for the unit identification. Also it would have no black bar on the tail and only be called Cripes a Mighty. Trying to remember the name of the man who received his P-51.......it was renamed "The Margarets."

He only had Cripes a Mighty 3rd for a few months before he left on a US bond tour...

 

[Airframes]

OK. Just that the profile shown in an earlier part of this thread, show Cripes III without the stripes on the upper fuselage, so I thought it was that one you were doing.

 

[B-17engineer]

Errr yeah

For the P-51B was the radio mounted directly behind the pilots head or farther back? Tamiya has their right behind and Revell has there's farther back in the cockpit.

 

[B-17engineer]

More P-51 work

I did the cut the decals out. Need to do the rest I found the best method is cutting the decal out (Like Andy said in separate thread) and making it octagonal but then I used a tweezer dipped in warm water and put a drop on the decal (Stops the chance of dropping the decal of falling into the water.) Then pick the decal up with your CLEAN tweezer or poke it so its on the end. then place it and remove excess water with a folded tissue and dab it. It looks great from my end my photography does no justice.

Then the seatbelts attatched, lap belts made, and the pit so far...

 

[Wayne Little]

very nice Harrison....

 

[B-17engineer]

Thanks Master!

 

[Crimea_River]

Looking good.

 

[B-17engineer]

Thanks Andy!

 

[dirkpitt289]

Some good work going on here Harrison. Keep it up.