Cees Broere Posted August 4, 2009 Author Share Posted August 4, 2009 Hi Perry, Ok, momentum is being kept up to speed. The top and bottom pieces are trial fitted and make the whole fuselage more rigid and it's quite square, I am very please with that. I found some empty gluesticks which had exactly the right diamater of the two cilindrical fueltanks of the HP O/400. These were originally fitted on tubular supports where made from plastic rod. Photography is a bit of a problem with all that white plastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cees Broere Posted August 4, 2009 Author Share Posted August 4, 2009 The surface of the nose gunner's position and some more flooring in the front fuselage got their distictive pattern, these were again made from strips of plastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cees Broere Posted August 4, 2009 Author Share Posted August 4, 2009 Some more pics, work is progressing with further fitting out the interior. The two large side windows and the cockpit area give a see through effect as well as the bombbay underneath. Especially that last section is very complicated, let's see how that works out. I have a 1/48 scale B25 to finish as well, so work can be getting in the way. Cheers Cees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cees Broere Posted August 4, 2009 Author Share Posted August 4, 2009 Last one for now. Cheers Cees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironman1945 Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Outstanding work, Cees! Well done! With respect to your question: Does anyone know a source where to find WW I instrument bezels, instrument faces, Vickers guns, drum magazines etc? without having to buy expensive kits just for those little parts? Have a look here under detail parts, 1/32 scale. http://www.amug.org/~copperst/main.html I think Copper State Models will have exactly what you need. Keep up the great work! Dave/Ironman1945 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeroenpeters Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Simply amazing work and a bold undertaking... Would be nice to see this giant with folded wings! Hope the B25 takes off on schedule Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perry Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Great work Cees, I'm always glad when I see another update on this project! You may find this site handy for the guns... http://www.hrprod.com/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azgaron Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Excellent work Cees! Looking great so far! Cheers, Håkan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabre F-86 Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 WOOOHOOOO! Thanks for my fix of bloody paralyser Cees! Its coming along just marvelous. The amount of detail you are putting in would drive me to drink. I too have been having problems with taking photos of the acres of white plastic. Cameras just can't seem to focus on it and won't lock. Sort of like me and those purple lights you sometimes see on cars as accents. Have you tried a manual focus on a solid object at the same range and then swing the camera onto the model? Thats one way the book says to try. I didn't have much luck that way either, so I painted the Wal with primer. The camera seems happier that way, at least most of the time. As for bezels and guns, I keep thinking there was a company called Tom's Models who did vac kits of WWII in 48th that may have also done 32nd. If not perhaps Fotocut may be able to help or even develope a PE set for you. Sabre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spads57 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Cees, Truly impressive stratch building.I wonder if you'll take a shot at one of the German giants next. With my rekindled interest in WW I subjects I'm following this thread with the greatest of interest.Keep those those updates coming. Regards, Gregory Jouette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cees Broere Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 Hi Gregory, One step at the time first This started out as an experiment to see if such a project can be scratchbuilt. I haven't done this before but so far it has been going on very well. Let's finish the fuselage first. Then I plan to make the innerwings with topwing and engines. If that goes as planned then the outer wings perhaps but we are talking a wingspan of almost one metre. Perhaps with folded wings similar to the Swordfish. Fun is paramount but I still have a ID Models Halifax to finish (see other thread in this section) and a 1:1 scale Halifax cockpit. So I have my work cut out for me, but this project is giving me so much satisfaction at the moment, and that's what the hobby is all about. I also noticed that I made a mistake by enlarging the 1:48 drawing. It's LSP to blame as I used one of the scale calculators on this site , it's 1:28, exactly the scale as HobbyCraft and Revell WWI models IIRC. Cheers Cees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabre F-86 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Your progress on this beast has me eying the paper model of the Vickers Vimy I picked up. I'm currently mining for reference materials. Sabre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcauchi Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Beautiful Cees, this is getting better every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cees Broere Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 Your progress on this beast has me eying the paper model of the Vickers Vimy I picked up. I'm currently mining for reference materials. Sabre Hi Sabre, Picked the Vimy up yet? I am about to restart the 0/400 later this week, would be nice to do a duo build, how about it? Cees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perry Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 DOHH.... I was hoping to see more progress Cees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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