fozzy Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 My immediate thought, would it not be better to used clear plastic, probably easier to manufacture the framing? Cheers Tony....but I just like to do it the hard way! .....no...The truth is that I didn't have any decent clear plastic to use...but it will be ok doing it this way.....I hope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Fantastic to see the radio room taking shape Fozzy! Love the ingenuity with the ball turret process. I'm constantly impressed at how you manage to use materials and methods most of us wouldn't even dream of Craig fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 (edited) Hi guys Time for an up date on this Ball turret! So after a lot of cursing the designers of this turret...namely Mr Sperry!...I finally managed to complete the outer parts of the bottom half of the turret..... leaving me to start next on the dreaded interior! The hardest part was trying to replicate where the 50 cals go into the turret....I tried all sorts of ideas but in the end decided to use wire insulation. Very fiddly I have to say and a few attempts had to be made before I was kind of satisfied that it looked the part. Here's a photo of me in the process of making them.............. I have done this method many times before but this time it seemed harder due to the circular shape they had to be attached to!...Each piece of insulation was 1 cm in length and had to be opened up and cut to shape.....and a small piece of plastic with a hole drilled out that will take the barrels later on........ Here you have it...... Next up was also pretty dam difficult and that was cutting out all the glazing positions.....but finally the bottom half of the turret was ready for glazing............. After the glazing was done using cut pieces of an old food clear packaging plastic...I then placed all the framing around the glass. Here it is then ready to start the detailing of the interior........ ....and with the top on to give some sort of reference that it is.... in fact... supposed to be a ball turret!!! I have to say I am glad that that hurdle is over with.....although the top half will be awkward at least it wont have all that glazing! When I started this project back in the dark ages I really wasn't going to do the entire B17G....it was just supposed to be the nose section......one of the reasons why I shied away from it is the fact that I would have to do this turret....but I guess that's what scratch building is all about....pushing your self to the limit...and this ball turret has pushed me right to the edge!! ha ha! so......I am now going to have a go at the bottom half of the interior...so I better start looking at the 1652 photos I have as reference!! I shall be back...and thanks for looking in! Fozzy Edited May 5, 2018 by fozzy Jim Barry, brahman104, Bil and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 holy crap Foz' man....thats epic! fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 That is a damn nice bit of modeling. Great show! Sincerely, Mark fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Supper cool Foz !......Harv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cees Broere Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Looks like something from Star Wars GusM, Tony C and fozzy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Looks awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Delightful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorbenD Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Top notch - very tidy work Fozzy Torben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony C Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Looks like something from Star Wars I was going to say that it looked like a "Death Star"! Stunning work and makes my suggestion of using clear plastic look redundant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohm-men Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 I was going to say that it looked like a "Death Star"! Stunning work and makes my suggestion of using clear plastic look redundant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted March 1, 2018 Author Share Posted March 1, 2018 Thanks a lot guys! I was going to say that it looked like a "Death Star"!Stunning work and makes my suggestion of using clear plastic look redundant . Tony ...I welcome any suggestions mate...keep em coming....and if I had enough decent clear plastic I would have used it to vac form the turret! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Wow, super DUPER epic! Really great scratch building Fozz fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bil Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Amazing workmanship. fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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