Academy 1/72 B-17E "Old 666" 43rd Bomb Group 1943
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DBII
Senior Master Sergeant
Nice work Dirk. I will have to try the interior next time.
DBII
DBII
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Lovely work Dirk, you have a good eye for detail
lesofprimus
Brigadier General
Lookin real good Dirk, so far so good man...
A4K
Brigadier General
Great work mate! Very nice indeed!
kgambit
Tech Sergeant
Awesome job Dirk. 
109ROAMING
2nd Lieutenant
Nice work Dirk!!
that looks excellent Dirk, well done
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Nice job so far Dirk.
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dirkpitt289
Master Sergeant
Hi guys. Not much progress has been done on "Old 666" lately. By the time I get home I'm just to darn tired to do much of anything. That being said last night I was able to sit and install all the small fiddly windows (8 in all) throughout both fuselage halves. Next its time to modify and install some of the weapons. For some odd reason I decided I'm going to try and scratch build the 50 cals that Sgt George Kendrick the waist gunner had hanging on the fuselage walls near the Ball Turret as spares in case any of his waist guns jammed. He also had an additional 50 cal mounted through the floor just aft of the ball turret.
B-17engineer
Colonel
This is gonna be a lot of guns. Now I patiently await to see how you build them so I cna make one for my B-17.
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dirkpitt289
Master Sergeant
Because they will likely never be seen after I close the fuselage halves I'm not going to go wild. The plan is to go to the local Train shop who carries quite a bit of styrene and find something that closely matches the body of the 50 cal. then add something like stretched spree for the barrel. After that I'll just glue them the the wall.
For all the other guns I will be adding to this model they'll be from my 1/72 Academy B-17F model which I'm going to turn into an assembly ship. Assembly ships had their armament removed so I have plenty to work with.
B-17engineer
Colonel
Good idea. Will figure something out...
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Sounds like a good challenge and your Sgt George Kendrick seems like a man who didn't take chances……..
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dirkpitt289
Master Sergeant
Sounds like a good challenge and your Sgt George Kendrick seems like a man who didn't take chances……..
From what I read he was the lone waist gunner. He didn't want anyone around his area where they would be "smacking butts" and getting in his way. The guy was a mad man
. He had twin 50s in each of the windows, one through the floor and then two or four spares just in case any jammed.
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
now that's a real man!
Lucky13
Forum Mascot
Looks great mate!
Vic Balshaw
Major General
From what I read he was the lone waist gunner. He didn't want anyone around his area where they would be "smacking butts" and getting in his way. The guy was a mad man
A 'REAL' Rambo
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dirkpitt289
Master Sergeant
I've been doing some fiddly work, here and there ( ball turret, customizing the extra guns, painting the engines) but I have a sinking feeling I'm not going to get this done in time.
