B-17 G 1:48 scale, 351st Bomb Group, 510th Squadron, AC# 43-37862, Fearless Fosdick

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I've been working on the oxygen tanks of late as well as studying how the flight yokes and columns are hooked up to the flight cables.


The elevators have a common bar between them and there appears to be some kind of box where the flight cable attachments originate.
 
Continuing on the oxygen bottles. I've cut 13 total and am now rounding the other side. First half was reatively easy but tedious. The second half not so much. To simplify the situation, I drilled a small hole on the rounded end and inserted sprue with one end stretched. This created a handle to hold on to. Then I fitted the unstretched sprue end into my Dremel and turned the piece on the lowest setting over sandpaper. Once the opposite end shape was made the sprue was cut from the part and sanded flush.

Here is the result...









Thanks for following...
 
Good work, and I can appreciate what was involved - I have to make just one, similar shaped item for my 1/32nd scale Hurricane build.
But, if I needed more than one, and especially with needing multiple items, and in a smaller scale than 1/32nd, I think I would make one, as a 'master', and then mould them in resin.
OK, it means getting the materials, making the mould etc, but it cuts down the effort, and ensures that each item will be the same (give or take a bit of clean-up), and, if needed, the mould can also be used for future projects.
Just a thought, and well done with the work and perserverance.
 
Thanks Terry for the suggestion. A kit available where I live runs around $30 and a learning curve. Doing this by hand is not perhaps the easy but it only costs me maybe a couple of bucks and time... both of which I have. I will give it a try later though.
 
 
Them be a b*gger to hold and shape at the same time - oh, b*llocks, another one has pinged !
Mary, watch where you be treading, it took me three fecking hours to sort that li'l bleeder, and me don'ts waarnt to be dooen that agairn, me luvly !!!
Or, roughly translated from 1940's East Anglian dialect - jolly good effort old chap !!
 
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