SwissPokerAce

Great built! Love it

After many years the B17 is still unfinished (70% done) ..Unfortunatelly I haven't enough time, but i hope next year will be finished. For some reason I can't see the photos I've posted and I didn't saved them... does anyone have them? Many thanks! Roberto from Switzerland

Most amazing B17 EVER!!

Unfortunately not yet... Probably my next post will be of the finished B17 Hope to finish before this summer..

Hello, well good choice! This was my solution. I did a scratch build from some scratch parts i did not used.. If you want also check out my work in progress

Hello! Im finally back...been busy travelling the world, but now i have some precious time for my B17 Here are the latest pics.. Starting to come toghether, some minor fitting problems...

Thank you very much. Last saturday there was a big air show here in Switzerland and I had the chance and the priviledge to enter inside the B17 Sally B (the one used for the movie "Memphis Belle" and the only flying B17 in Europe). Here are the pictures I took of the plane. PS: its a B17G modified for the movie Memphis Belle to look like an older one... Also thank you for the colour advice, I will make it look weathered with faeded colour and some patches here and there

Hello, i'm back, i've been in holidays for some weeks... Here are my latest updates. Feel free to comment I also have a big problem: do you know which tamiya colour to use for the exterior? Olive green or olive drab? Olive drab looks too dark... And which neutral grey? Many thanks!

Hello everyboby, finally i've glued the compartments into the fuselage...didn't fit at first and i had to struggle quite a lot... now srating to work on the waist and tail I'll try to upload HD quality photos..

Thank you again for your great comments and for your support! The photo etched parts are from Eduards, seatbelts and wood decals are from HGW. I was also thinking about adding a little wash for the walls...but i'm not very familiar with the wash (i was lucky with the bombs..almost done a disaster). The paint is not gloss but is matte and I'm worried it will wash away the background colour.. I prefer a dry brush weathering, looks more like the real interior weathering of dust.. For the exterior I'm planning to use a lot of wash

Hello modellers, I finally made some more progress on the nose compartment..still a work in progress, missing more details...hope to have new photos next week end enjoy

Very impressive stuff! You have the skills of a swiss watch maker

Thank you everyone for your great support! I've strated working on the nose compartment...i hope i will make some progress within the next days.. meanwhile I'm following the Swiss football team in Brazil

Woah, great work. I'm using your photos to get inspiration for the B17 i'm building..many thanks! Rob from Switzerland

Hello, finally I've found some time to work on my model... I started to glue togheter some main compartments.. I successfully glued the cockpit straight (thanks to strong clamps) Still missing the O2 tubes (i've ordered the guitar cord, thanks SIlver Dollar), cords for the o2 thanks, some minor details etc... Hope you enjoy

Hi Craig, i'm really glad you find my work usefull to your B-17 it's good to share our experiences.. Thanks for the very good advices! In fact I just bought several putty of different brands and soon i'll practice how to use them..in fact it seem is almost a must to have in order to build model airplanes..

Great idea! I'll try to find one of this cords on eBay meanwhile i'llalso look around at my local stores to find something that looks similar..

Hello, I'm back with my latest photos..so far I've done some weathering, still missing many small details (cables, oxigen tubes, oil stains, etc..).. any suggestion is more than welcome