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Second Attempt at HKM B-17G With Some Minor Improvements.


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Thanks guys.   I always appreciate the great encouragement.  Believe it or not, I'm sitting here writing this while watching Memphis Belle.  I know it's got a lot of "creative license" all over it but I still get to see B-17s.  

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I'm in the middle of remaking the rear radio room bulkhead out of brass.  After I filled those horrible holes on the waist side, I had to sand off all of the surface detail so I could easily smooth the filler patches.  Then I opened the door and the whole piece just got too floppy to handle during the radio equipment detailing.  It's a really easy bulkhead to make and I can cut the radio pieces off the original part and glue them onto the brass plate.   

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Thanks all again.  The cat thanks you too.  Yesterday, my little soldering torch went kaflooey.  It started to leak fuel as I was working with it.  Talk about an accident waiting to happen.  I almost had a model rocket on my hands.  Went to Home Depot and got a new one along with a new soldering gun.  Onward goes my work.  

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Hi SD

 

I was checking on your build the other day to keep up with your progress when I came across the photo of the cat.

 

Needless to say I had to go sit in the corner with my head covered and my wife had to bring my glue to help

 

get thru the visions of "FLAK-KAT"  :o  :wacko:  :BANGHEAD2:  :crying:

 

But I'm all better now :whistle:

 

Love the bomb bay and the radio room details, you are progressing very nicely

 

Good Looking Cat,by the way :coolio:

 

Still keeping up with your B-17...........I'm hooked up on the Air War in Vietnam Group build that starts May 1 ....Don't know when I'll get back to my 17

 

Jack

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Hey Jack.  I figured I'd bring back the memories of FLAK KAT.  That's only one of them but that's the one that worries me the most.  I put the completed assemblies out of reach behind a wood cabinet door.  

 

Here's the new brass bulkhead shown from the waist side.  Tonight I cut out all of the radio boxes but I haven't cemented them to the other side yet.  I wanted to leave that for last just before I paint that side.  Once the painting is done, I'll start fitting the guts together and then get working on the sides of the compartments.  More to come.  

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Thanks Geoff.  One day,  I hope to be able to do a heck of a lot more brass scratch building.   My main goal is to be free of the confines of the kit if you know what I mean.  That way, I control the scale, the shape, the horizontal and the vertical.  

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Hey Jack.  If you take aluminum and brass and connect them with a salt bridge, i.e. salt and H2O, you can get a galvanic reaction.  I have to make sure no salt gets near my bulkhead. I don't want my model to be melted.  Thanks for the compliment.  

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