C-75 - Boeing 307 Stratoliner 1/48

hawkeye2an · Aug 30, 2010

I have been planning this one for a long time and finally got started on it.

It is based on a Revell 1/48 B-17E.

Pic 1 - LARGE set of plans - Paul Matt drawings.

Pic 2 - patching up the slots. The C-75 has slots at the leading edge toward the wingtips.

Pic 3 - major surgery. The C-75 has no superchargers.

hub · Aug 30, 2010

Nice project

What are you going to use for the fuselage?

Mike

vikingBerserker · Aug 30, 2010

Wow, this will be an interesting one to watch!

hawkeye2an · Aug 30, 2010

hub said:
Nice project

What are you going to use for the fuselage?

Mike

The fuselage will be turned on a lathe as it is perfectly round and then vacuformed.

vikingBerserker · Aug 30, 2010

Dam dude, that's impressive. Do you by chance have one of the old Mattell Vacuform machines or did you build your own?

B-17engineer · Aug 30, 2010

Sweet!!!

T Bolt · Aug 30, 2010

Andy, Marquette makes a model of the 307, you may save yourself some time. its a new molded fuselage, very limited run looking, and the old frog B-17E wings. The wings you did so far would be a vast improvement over the Frog wings. I have the kit about 70% done and the wings were a struggle.

hawkeye2an · Aug 31, 2010

vikingBerserker said:
Dam dude, that's impressive. Do you by chance have one of the old Mattell Vacuform machines or did you build your own?

Yes I do have a Mattel Vac, wouldn't be much use here though. I built my own. I'll post some pics as soon as I can pull them up again.

hawkeye2an · Aug 31, 2010

T Bolt said:
Andy, Marquette makes a model of the 307, you may save yourself some time. its a new molded fuselage, very limited run looking, and the old frog B-17E wings. The wings you did so far would be a vast improvement over the Frog wings. I have the kit about 70% done and the wings were a struggle.

I want a 1/48 one. That is the only scale I build as I like to keep things consistant.

hawkeye2an · Aug 31, 2010

Okay, here are the pics of my homemade Vacuform machine.

T Bolt · Aug 31, 2010

hawkeye2an said:
I want a 1/48 one. That is the only scale I build as I like to keep things consistant.

Hadn't noticed it was 1/48th. That's going to be a big one Andy!

Wayne Little · Aug 31, 2010

Thats cool!!

hawkeye2an · Aug 31, 2010

Pic 1 - putting some backing in to support the putty. The 307 only had one cooling vent on the leading edge of the wing. It also had a couple of small holes for cabin air, but those will be drilled out later.

Pics 2 3 - building up the extended horizontal stabilizers.

Lucky13 · Aug 31, 2010

WOW! Love to see this one mate.....awesome!

hawkeye2an · Aug 31, 2010

Here's some pics of the C-75.

javlin · Aug 31, 2010

Thanks for the tutorial there Andy on the vac machine.Cheers

hawkeye2an · Aug 31, 2010

javlin said:
Thanks for the tutorial there Andy on the vac machine.Cheers

You're welcome. I have used it quite a few times over the years. I use my little Mattel unit even more often. For canopies and small panels etc.

Airframes · Aug 31, 2010

Looking forward to this one! Always liked the 'Stratoliner', and had a 1/48th vac-form fuselage conversion about thirty years ago, but it got lost in a house move !

vikingBerserker · Aug 31, 2010

hawkeye2an said:
Okay, here are the pics of my homemade Vacuform machine.

That's friclken awesome!

Now just need to come up with an excuse for the Mrs as to why we need one.....

B-17engineer · Aug 31, 2010

This is gonna be great!!

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