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Academy 1/72 B-17E "Old 666" 43rd Bomb Group 1943
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Benevolens Magister
I agree with Wojtek, nice work.
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Well done!
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dirkpitt289
Master Sergeant
Last night I unmasked Old 666 and finished up the work on the cowling flaps. I then installed the engines and dry fitted the props.
Feels like I'm starting to get a cold. Hopefully I'll get some more work of this one tomorrow
Feels like I'm starting to get a cold. Hopefully I'll get some more work of this one tomorrow
B-17engineer
Colonel
Very cool!
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
She's really shaping up!
Coming along nicely Dirk.
Lucky13
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Great work mate!
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dirkpitt289
Master Sergeant
It's been some time since I worked on this project but i'm on a mission to clear up some of the unfinished kits I have laying around. First things first. All those pesky nose windows I put in before I joined the fuselage all fell out. Most of the windows were lost but those that weren't were damn near impossible to put back with the fuselage assembled. To fix this I broke out the Micro Krystal Klear and made my own windows.
To do this all you need to do is dip a tooth pick into the solution and then swirl it around the window opening until you have a complete film over the opening.
Now to the guns.
One of the extra guns Steve Zemer added to his aircraft was one right outside his window on the nose. Now there are no photos that I know of to show how this was placed so I had to take some creative licensing and do what I think made sense. After the windscreen was in place the only location that made sense was in the top window just infront of the windscreen. All I did was add some Krystal Klear to the opening and stuck a single .50 cal machine gun.
Time to get back to work. I will post more later on.
To do this all you need to do is dip a tooth pick into the solution and then swirl it around the window opening until you have a complete film over the opening.
Now to the guns.
One of the extra guns Steve Zemer added to his aircraft was one right outside his window on the nose. Now there are no photos that I know of to show how this was placed so I had to take some creative licensing and do what I think made sense. After the windscreen was in place the only location that made sense was in the top window just infront of the windscreen. All I did was add some Krystal Klear to the opening and stuck a single .50 cal machine gun. Time to get back to work. I will post more later on.
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dirkpitt289
Master Sergeant
Next I moved on to the office of bombardier Joseph Sarnoski. The B-17E came with 3 guns fitted in the glass nose. Sarnoski swapped out the three .30 cal's and replaced them with .50's. He also added an additional .50 cal machine gun to the nose.
Top turret in place
Tail gun placement
Top turret in place
Tail gun placement
Crimea_River
Marshal
Lovely.
T Bolt
Colonel
Nice wirk Dirk!
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dirkpitt289
Master Sergeant
Last night I did a little more work on Old 666 continuing to mount all the machine guns. So far we installed the following:
2 .50's in the tail
2 .50's in the ball turret. These fell out during the masking for the paint and will have to be reinstalled
4 .50's in the nose
1 .50 in front of pilots windscreen
1 .50 mounted in the floor behind the waist gunner
Next I moved onto the waist gunners position.
Zeamer's crew put guns where they didn't even need guns, leaving loose machine guns on the catwalk so that if a gun jammed at a critical moment they could dump it and quickly replace it with a spare. Sergeant George Kendrick even mounted a gun behind the ball turret near the waist. "I don't know who would have handled that except the side gunner" Jay recalls. "He wanted all the guns he could get! He wouldn't let another gunner back there with him. He said, 'These are my guns. I'm going to shoot them all. I don't want to be bumping asses with another guy back here!' This was George Kendrick, the screwball of the crew."
Using the twin guns for the top and ball turret from the Green Hornet kit I went to work
Using some of my Evergreen stock I made mounts for the guns.
Next I moved over to the tail gunners position. I wanted to put the gun site in place
With a pin vice and a very very tiny bit I set to work.
I must say I'm happy with the results
Tonight I hope to figure out how to mount the radio gunners twin .50s
Thanks for looking
2 .50's in the tail
2 .50's in the ball turret. These fell out during the masking for the paint and will have to be reinstalled
4 .50's in the nose
1 .50 in front of pilots windscreen
1 .50 mounted in the floor behind the waist gunner
Next I moved onto the waist gunners position.
Zeamer's crew put guns where they didn't even need guns, leaving loose machine guns on the catwalk so that if a gun jammed at a critical moment they could dump it and quickly replace it with a spare. Sergeant George Kendrick even mounted a gun behind the ball turret near the waist. "I don't know who would have handled that except the side gunner" Jay recalls. "He wanted all the guns he could get! He wouldn't let another gunner back there with him. He said, 'These are my guns. I'm going to shoot them all. I don't want to be bumping asses with another guy back here!' This was George Kendrick, the screwball of the crew."
Using the twin guns for the top and ball turret from the Green Hornet kit I went to work
Using some of my Evergreen stock I made mounts for the guns.
Next I moved over to the tail gunners position. I wanted to put the gun site in place
With a pin vice and a very very tiny bit I set to work.
I must say I'm happy with the results
Tonight I hope to figure out how to mount the radio gunners twin .50s
Thanks for looking
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Benevolens Magister
Good stuff Dirk, it's looking the biz !
plheure2
Senior Airman
Quite the gunship!! Guns a go-go!!
Looking good Dirk!
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dirkpitt289
Master Sergeant
After looking through all my B-17 books I think I know how I'm going to mount my twin .50s in the radio window.
