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B17G "D Day Doll"


Simmo.b

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More progress, after a house move I have my work space set up again and the Doll is now ready to have her fusalage sides closed up.

I went with the excellent eduard Brassin guns but didn't like the barrels so added Master barrels darkened with Uschi blackening fluid. I really wanted to leave the barrels off until the end of the build but when adding rge Eduard guns and mounts the attachment was kind of weak so I added the barrels to assist with the connection, it remains to be seen how many times I break them off!!

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The front end, very crowded!!

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Another view, fabric belts and Master flexible ammo belts look pretty good

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The radio room with raised step eliminated and belts added to seat.

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Left waist, not worried about the ejector pin marks as they will never be seen

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Right waist.

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Right front, scratchbuilt oxy bottle, will be fun tetrising the ammo belt to the gun once the fuse is joined!

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Test fit, should be OK.

Thanks for looking in.

Cheers

Brent

 

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Very cool!

 

interested in your comment that HK changed the tooling mid way through the run

 

haven't heard that before

 

anyone else?

 

is the change actually visible once everything is buttoned up?

 

thanks again for sharing

 

Nick

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6 hours ago, nmayhew said:

Very cool!

 

interested in your comment that HK changed the tooling mid way through the run

 

haven't heard that before

 

anyone else?

 

is the change actually visible once everything is buttoned up?

 

thanks again for sharing

 

Nick

Hi Nick,

The step in the radio room is awful and really inaccurate (and visible). HK fixed this when they did the E/F version and carried it over to the re-release of the G as well as making the rear crew access door a seperate part.

Cheers

Brent

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