**** DONE: 1/72 B-24H “Booby Trap” - Heavy Hitters II GB
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Beauty work Glenn.
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T Bolt
Colonel
I haven't posted in this thread in a wile but I've been slowly working on it. The fuselage is all cleaned up and ready for clear parts. I've also finished the wing joints and clean-up on most of the remaining small parts, but nothing really worth taking a picture of yet.
B-17engineer
Colonel
Catch22
Major
Me too!
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T Bolt
Colonel
You guys asked for it so heres the pics.
First pictures shows all the bits I've finished cleaning up and the second one shows the ones that still need a bit of work. The cowlings while pretty good from the front have almost no cowl flap detail so I'll be scribing that in, and the turbo exhausts need to be drilled out.
First pictures shows all the bits I've finished cleaning up and the second one shows the ones that still need a bit of work. The cowlings while pretty good from the front have almost no cowl flap detail so I'll be scribing that in, and the turbo exhausts need to be drilled out.
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Got your share of cleaning done between this and the Stirling. Looks good man.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Some more good clean parts, you've done good Glenn.
done good Glenn!
Great work so far Glenn!
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T Bolt
Colonel
As I posted in the new books thread I recently bought the excalent reference book Consolidated Mess by Alan Griffith. The book is a well of information on the turret nose models of the B-24, and wile studying it I confirmed the type if waste windows the B-24H-20 had that I had found myself through studying old photos. The bad news is that I realised that the nose of my model is totally wrong! First, it DOES have the emerson nose turret, all B-24H's did, so I'm scrapping the idea of using the A-6B vac turret and going with the kits Emmerson A-15. The problem is that while Academy calls this kit a B-24H, the design of the nose is that which was used for many of the B-24J's and none of the B-24H's. The B-24H, either those made my Ford or by any of the other B-24 manufactures used a nose turret kit provided by Ford which is identified by the "S" shaped panel line to the rear of the turret.
The first two pictures are from profiles I found that show very well the differences between the B-24J that the kit was patterned after and the B-24H which it should be. B-24J is on jeft and B-24H on the right.
I just couldn't let this stand now that I knew the truth, so here's what I have been doing the last few days:
Picture 3 I filled in the bombardiers side windows. Some H's had these but "Booby Trap" was not one of them. I also scribed in the "S" shaped panel line that was typical the Ford nose turret kit. All panel lines forward of this were then filled.
Pictures 4-6 The process of building the shroud to fit to the turret. This was very delicate work and took some time.
Picture 7 the finished nose to compare to the profile pic. The bomb sight window is still not correct, the rear frame being vertical instead of angled, but I will deal with this my masking it at an angle before painting.
The first two pictures are from profiles I found that show very well the differences between the B-24J that the kit was patterned after and the B-24H which it should be. B-24J is on jeft and B-24H on the right.
I just couldn't let this stand now that I knew the truth, so here's what I have been doing the last few days:
Picture 3 I filled in the bombardiers side windows. Some H's had these but "Booby Trap" was not one of them. I also scribed in the "S" shaped panel line that was typical the Ford nose turret kit. All panel lines forward of this were then filled.
Pictures 4-6 The process of building the shroud to fit to the turret. This was very delicate work and took some time.
Picture 7 the finished nose to compare to the profile pic. The bomb sight window is still not correct, the rear frame being vertical instead of angled, but I will deal with this my masking it at an angle before painting.
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fubar57
General
Wow. Now after that little mod, might we expect to see the wipers as shown in your profile?
Geo
Geo
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Very nicely done Glenn, and looks like that book was well worth the investment. When you get a chance, could you e-mail me details of the book please? Methinks it might be worth getting, just in case I decide to do a 1/48th B-24 at some time ......
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
I agree, well done Glenn!
Catch22
Major
Wow Glenn, great job.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Have to agree……..Wow Glenn.
N4521U
Plastic Pirate
That front turret mod is really nice Glenn!
fantastic modification Glenn, well done mate
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T Bolt
Colonel
Thanks guys, I hope that was the last of the mods.
Spent the evening mass producing props, for this one and the Stirling. ...…
Spent the evening mass producing props, for this one and the Stirling. ...…
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