Out2gtcha Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Truly an inspirational piece of work Fozzy! Im thinking this is quite utterly nothing less than amazing work. Here's to your wife's full recovery as well. Family is always more important! fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 Truly an inspirational piece of work Fozzy! Im thinking this is quite utterly nothing less than amazing work. Here's to your wife's full recovery as well. Family is always more important! Thanks for your kind words Brian...your too kind! Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richdlc Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 very nice work fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 very nice work Thanks bud! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorbenD Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Some cracking work going on here Fozzy. Great scratchwork! Have a safe trip back and wishing your missus a speedy recovery Torben fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdthoresen Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 Foz-I still maintain you are the man!!All the best to your wife-THOR fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted March 18, 2018 Author Share Posted March 18, 2018 Thanks lads! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share Posted April 20, 2018 (edited) Afternoon guys! I have just returned from UK and I am now back in my office and can get to my bench!....the last time I posted was 15 March and of course not being able to do any modelling this post is going to be a small update. So its the continuation of the Ball turret that seems to get more and more complicated the more I look at the photos. I have many photos of different angles of the interior of the turret that I have collected over the months and its a real slow process of interpreting what I see!....not to mention that some of the equipment I have scratch built will be able to be seen but only if you look carefully in all the nooks and crannies!.....as in the real turret there isn't a spare scrap of space! So I continued with building an electrical control box that sits on the front of the ammo cans.....here it is..... I painted the said object and before placing into the turret I built the manual elevation shaft control that the gunner would use if there was no power to the controls....this sits somehow on the front of the electrical control box!....... The last 3 photos show the progress I have made by looking at the white un painted parts....... So as you can see....real slow progress for such a small part in this B17G project! When I have made a bit more progress I will post again....so until then... Thanks for taking a look Fozzy Edited April 20, 2018 by fozzy Out2gtcha, TorbenD, Jim Barry and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Lovely! That ball turret is a little work of art all on its own fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 what he said ^ fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony C Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Excellent work as always Fozzy and makes me appreciate, just how cramped the real ball turret must have been in use! I'd imagine that ball turret gunners may have had a higher mortality rate than the other crew positions within the B-17 and B-24 fleets! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bstarr3 Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Excellent work as always Fozzy and makes me appreciate, just how cramped the real ball turret must have been in use! I'd imagine that ball turret gunners may have had a higher mortality rate than the other crew positions within the B-17 and B-24 fleets! Interestingly, I read that the tail gunners had the highest mortality rate among B-17 crew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Barry Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 You must be enjoying this saying "they're never going make a kit of this stuff" . Such an iconic weapon system of ww2. Never before and never since. Looking great! fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted April 23, 2018 Author Share Posted April 23, 2018 (edited) Once again guys....thanks a lot for your interest in this build. As for the survival rate of these gunners I have also read different opinions!..some say as Bstarr3 has pointed out that the tail gunner was the worst position and then I have read that the nose section was a pretty dodgy position to be in.....(until they installed the chin Turret)...personally I think where ever you were positioned in the Fort flying over Germany in the early 40s was not a good place to be!....my greatest respect for all of those real Heroes! BTW....apologies for the photos on here that seem to have a mind of their own at the moment!...one minute they are here next they have vanished...I think that Postimage have been hacked....anyone else experiencing problems? Cheers Fozzy Edited April 23, 2018 by fozzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony C Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Interestingly, I read that the tail gunners had the highest mortality rate among B-17 crew Once again guys....thanks a lot for your interest in this build. As for the survival rate of these gunners I have also read different opinions!..some say as Bstarr3 has pointed out that the tail gunner was the worst position and then I have read that the nose section was a pretty dodgy position to be in.....(until they installed the chin Turret)...personally I think where ever you were positioned in the Fort flying over Germany in the early 40s was not a good place to be!....my greatest respect for all of those real Heroes! Fozzy I have no information regarding which position had the higher mortality rate, it just seems to my mind, that the ball turret doesn't appear to lend itself to a rapid exit! fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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