Dukie99 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Carl, I admire your fortitude with the HGW seatbelts, one set of belts got me running to the single malt, can't imaging doing two sets... and everything looks absolutely great. I realized this week-end after glueing the nose how much présence this model has, having two side by side in the display cabinet will be something. Cheers, David BloorwestSiR and Shaka HI 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Carl absolutely stunning progress, really jealous at the amount of benchtime, I'm on an hour a week if I am lucky........... BloorwestSiR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Ccarl Very nice work on the beginnings of both front offices - PE work and seat belts surely look spot on. Keep ‘em comin Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maxim Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Really nice work. The cockpit looks really nice and I like that both seats are the same size! Just remember to add the same armor plate behind the co pilots seat as the pilot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted May 29, 2018 Author Share Posted May 29, 2018 (edited) Beautiful work Carl! Did you have to paint over the Eduard cockpit photoetch, or did they do a good job matching the color? Cheers, tom Tom, I didn't paint over the Eduard PE. It's odd though that some bits are a proper black and others are dark grey. Thankfully there aren't any bits that ares green which might have required a repaint. Edited May 29, 2018 by BloorwestSiR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted May 29, 2018 Author Share Posted May 29, 2018 Carl, I admire your fortitude with the HGW seatbelts, one set of belts got me running to the single malt, can't imaging doing two sets... and everything looks absolutely great. I realized this week-end after glueing the nose how much présence this model has, having two side by side in the display cabinet will be something. Cheers, David Thanks David! One thing I've done is use the instructions from Wako instead of the HGW ones. They make much more sense and are easier to understand. Now if only HGW would lay out their buckles the way Wako does and they'd be even easier to assemble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted May 29, 2018 Author Share Posted May 29, 2018 Carl absolutely stunning progress, really jealous at the amount of benchtime, I'm on an hour a week if I am lucky........... Thanks! I haven't been at the bench as much lately though. The weather here's been great and my boys just don't want to come home from school. We're in the playground everyday for an hour or so after class with them playing with friends. It's hard to complain about that since they're getting exercise and fresh air. At least there's other parents to talk to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted May 29, 2018 Author Share Posted May 29, 2018 (edited) Ccarl Very nice work on the beginnings of both front offices - PE work and seat belts surely look spot on. Keep ‘em comin Peter Thanks Peter! The center console with all the levers was a right pain to put together. I'm thinking of sticking to the kit parts for French Kiss. Edited May 29, 2018 by BloorwestSiR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted May 29, 2018 Author Share Posted May 29, 2018 (edited) Really nice work. The cockpit looks really nice and I like that both seats are the same size! Just remember to add the same armor plate behind the co pilots seat as the pilot.Thanks Maxim! Here's the copilot one mounted to the bulkhead as per the Eduard set. This is the pilot one attached to French Kiss. If they're supposed to be the same for both pilots, I may have a bit of work cut out for me. Edited May 29, 2018 by BloorwestSiR patricksparks and BradG 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted May 29, 2018 Author Share Posted May 29, 2018 A bit more progress and a bunch of jumping around. First, I started working on some of the additional details to go into the navigators position forward of the bomb bay. The cylinder is the hydraulic reservoir. In plumbing it up, I noticed that the lines went into the bomb bay. So I ended up drilling through the bomb bay floor and mounting the lines accordingly. Which is a bit of a pain when the bomb bay is already assembled. Then I started working on cleaning up the various MGs fitted to the planes. I also started working on the second pair of engines. LSP_Kevin, Trak-Tor, Uncarina and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted May 29, 2018 Author Share Posted May 29, 2018 The additional nav position details in place on the front wall of the bomb bay. In case anyone's wondering, these are from a resin entail set I purchased on eBay. The moldings are nice and clean and the seller even removes most of the pour stubs from them. He also does a set of USAAF radios which I picked up as well to use a couple from. BradG, LSP_Kevin, Out2gtcha and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 Whoa, fantastic progress Carl , very impressive. I am feeling a little guilty by not having much spare time behind the bench. Thumbs up! Cheers Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted June 2, 2018 Author Share Posted June 2, 2018 Whoa, fantastic progress Carl , very impressive. I am feeling a little guilty by not having much spare time behind the bench. Thumbs up! Cheers Martin Thanks Martin! Here it is, mostly plumbed and installed. LSP_Kevin, Trak-Tor, Michael931080 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted June 2, 2018 Author Share Posted June 2, 2018 Now for some bad news. Either my son or his friend were trying to get something off my paint rack when they managed to tear it off the wall. Which meant the rack plus 50 or so jars of Tamiya and Gunze paints landed on the cockpits for both B-25s. At the moment I can't locate all the bits and those I have found are pretty smushed. Besides the discussion with my son about why he shouldn't be near my bench unsupervised, I'm going to have to figure out what to do next. Sigh, Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Oh no, Carl! That's a major bummer, but I hope you can recover and keep going. Perhaps that extra month will come in handy! Kev BloorwestSiR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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