shark64 Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 so nice. great modeling going here Oliver fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted December 26, 2018 Author Share Posted December 26, 2018 Cheers Oliver! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Having seen all your terrific work on the ball turret I thought to share this video that wouldn’t have caught my eye had I not been watching this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted December 30, 2018 Author Share Posted December 30, 2018 Brilliant video showing the potential power of the ball turret and of course the cramped space the gunner had to squeeze into!....thanks for sharing the video themongoose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 goodness me, what exceptional detailing real eye candy for those of us who love that sort of thing an epic undertaking with all that is going on inside a big airframe like the B17 Peter fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share Posted March 7, 2019 Well hi there one and all! After a long long break which included Christmas/New Year and a trip to San Diego to see family I have finally returned to my office and the B17G.......I do hope the start of this year has been kind to you all so far! So what have I done?...well I have done all the basic construction for the top half of the radio room. It took some time as the sky light above the radio room proved to be a bit of a pain to get it together...I just hope that it looks ok! The insides to the Balsa fuselage was covered with the plastic from yogurt pots as I usually do and then the ribs and other detail was glued into place using plastic card. Here are the photos starting with just the top half of the fuselage.................. ...and here are the two halves put together temporarily using some masking tape!......... A bit of a boring post I must admit but...... the next few posts to come will be much more interesting as I will be starting scratching all the radios etc ....after I have given the inside a spray up!! So until then...once again thanks for looking in Fozzy Erwin, Trak-Tor, LSP_Kevin and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Not boring at all, Martin! Looks amazing. Kev fozzy and Out2gtcha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 I have to agree, there isnt much of anything boring about a 20th scale fortress. fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted March 8, 2019 Author Share Posted March 8, 2019 Thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Paxton Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 I'm so glad to see you back in the workshop sir....fantastic stuff here as usual fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorbenD Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Top drawer scratching - lovin’ it! Torben fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted March 15, 2019 Author Share Posted March 15, 2019 FUSE PANEL ,RADIO ROOM HATCH AND CONTROL CABLES! Hi guys Hows it all going in the model world? Here we have the next installment of the radio room build for this B17G...as the the title states I managed to get 3 things completed since the last post....so starting with the fuse box here are some photos............ Quite straight forward really...a thickish piece of plastic was cut and manipulated into the fuse box!! It was then painted and cables added to it ....and here it is installed in it's rightful position! I then played around with the radio room hatch by adding the 4 escape/securing handles....basically I bent a sliver of aluminum from a cola can Then started the real fun and games! I never thought that adding the control cables would be such a pain!..I mean I put the cables into the nose section and the bomb bay without the blasted hassle I had this time.....it was all done by trial and error...starting over twice as I just couldn't get it to look right...I tried different gauges of electrical wire....I even tried using some fishing line!..the glue wouldn't set or I couldn't get the cables to tighten...but in the end I found some other small gauge electrical wire which wouldn't bend and made some guiders(for want of a better word) so that the cables were at equal distances to each other!.... Not sure if I know what I'm talking about!!....so here are the photos of the end result!! Oh .....I also sprayed the internal walls and placed the two window perspex on either side of the fuselage. So that's it for another week guys.........thanks a lot for looking in Later's Fozzy Out2gtcha, Fvdm, LSP_Kevin and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 more exceptional work Foz' Out2gtcha and fozzy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 1 hour ago, Shawn M said: more exceptional work Foz' +1! fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 Ahhh finally my B-17 fix for the year has returned. Nice work! fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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