tomprobert Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Looking good - I love seeing a Fortress coming together! A little bit of nit-picking, but the solid floor beneath the bombardier’s seat was actually clear plexiglass on WWII B-17s. Many warbirds have solid floor panels now (I imagine for safety reasons when carrying passengers) but the wartime-era Forts has this clear so that it was easy to look down into the turret mechanism. And don’t forget that that wartime B-17s were natural metal inside, with only exposed metal in the cockpit area being painted Bronze Green. Anyway, keep up the good work! Tom nmayhew and D.B. Andrus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miloslav1956 Posted January 28, 2019 Author Share Posted January 28, 2019 Work on the B-17 continues Kagemusha, Gazzas, Geddyme and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miloslav1956 Posted June 1, 2019 Author Share Posted June 1, 2019 Last update. Jan_G, Martinnfb, Kagemusha and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Looking great! Craig Martinnfb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miloslav1956 Posted June 2, 2019 Author Share Posted June 2, 2019 Today update. chukw, TAG, Durangokid and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misha71 Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 great progress as usual. i like your paint collection Martinnfb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fvdm Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 Beautiful progress. Martinnfb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josebagasteiz Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 Great work in a very cool airplane !!! Martinnfb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miloslav1956 Posted July 6, 2019 Author Share Posted July 6, 2019 Last update! Gazzas, Out2gtcha, Kagemusha and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marauderdriver Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 Great work so far Sir. PE makes me crazy, which is why I didn't use it. Do you have any photos of the ammo boxes for the ball turret, my understanding is they are inside the turret. The only pics I can find are for the B-24 that attach to the turret support. I can still fix mine as the fuselage is still unglued, Thanks jack Martinnfb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avenger2614 Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 3 hours ago, marauderdriver said: Great work so far Sir. PE makes me crazy, which is why I didn't use it. Do you have any photos of the ammo boxes for the ball turret, my understanding is they are inside the turret. The only pics I can find are for the B-24 that attach to the turret support. I can still fix mine as the fuselage is still unglued, Thanks jack You are correct, there were no B-17s with the ammo cans external of the ball turret. That was unique to the B-24, so any visible ammo cans on the B-17 is inaccurate. I can't find the photos that support that at the moment, but trust me, no external ammo cans on the B-17 ball turret. marauderdriver 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 Lovely metal work - it certainly does add some finesse in this scale. Just don't go and plaster interior green all over it And @Avenger2614 is absolutely correct - no wartime B-17s were fitted with the external ammunition cans. They're often seen on warbirds, but WWII-era Forts had all ammo stored inside the turret itself. Looking forward to more! Tom Kagemusha and marauderdriver 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bstarr3 Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 Very clean work. I never get tired of B-17 builds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Very clean PE work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miloslav1956 Posted July 9, 2019 Author Share Posted July 9, 2019 Thanks all. Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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