Wackyracer Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 40 minutes ago, airscale said: Incredible! yes, lots of trade orders earlier today, but the first retail sale of the B24 was to you, just as it was for the Lanc a theme I am very happy with Peter Yeah. Well happy with that. Thanks Peter look forward to seeing in the flesh. Can start my build now as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis7423 Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Out of curiosity, what's the size comparison between the B-25 and B-24 nose wheels? The Brassin B-25 wheel set sure is nice... but would it work? - Dennis S. Thornton, CO USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 I just ordered one....I tried to resist, but just couldn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonGUSA Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 4 hours ago, Dennis7423 said: Out of curiosity, what's the size comparison between the B-25 and B-24 nose wheels? The Brassin B-25 wheel set sure is nice... but would it work? - Dennis S. Thornton, CO USA Hey Dennis No the B-24's took an S36 tire the same as the main tires on the P-38. You can use the Aires ones for the P-38 but you will have to remove the brake detail off of the back of the wheel. True details make aset for the Hobbyboss B-24 but they are the type with a hub cap. Ron G Out2gtcha and Dennis7423 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis7423 Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 2 hours ago, RonGUSA said: Hey Dennis No the B-24's took an S36 tire the same as the main tires on the P-38. You can use the Aires ones for the P-38 but you will have to remove the brake detail off of the back of the wheel. True details make aset for the Hobbyboss B-24 but they are the type with a hub cap. Ron G Thanks Ron! I wasn't sure... was just thumbing through my HK B-25H last night, and saw that super nice Brassin wheel/tire looking back at me, and I thought, "Boy, that sure looks like it could be the right size..." but alas, it is not. Those True Details wheels are absolutely atrocious. They look more like off-road vehicle tires than aircraft tires, and the distance between the wheel hub and the brake assembly is gigantic. Guess I'll be patient and wait for Brassin to (hopefully) release a set dedicated to the HobbyBoss B-24 kits. Perhaps they are waiting for the D to come out so they can get all of us in one fell swoop. - Dennis S. Thornton, CO USA Harold and Out2gtcha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 IIRC, I seem to recall Brassin confirming they were coming out with at least one complete set of wheels/tires for the HB B-24. Dennis7423 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Hi guys, MDC released nice .50 ammunition belts made of souple resin. Moreover, I just received from them a prototype of empty belts. They are VERY nice and very reasonably priced. This is one ideal solution for US bombers such as the B-24. Hope this helps Thierry zeusbheld 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Got an instrument panel (Thank you AirScale!). Ordered a bombsight....the kit has no seat belts. Seriously. Not a big deal for the bombardier/nav/radio positions as I can scratch those. But did the Lib have just lap belts for the pilot/co pilot or a full harness? Hard to tell from photos I've been seeing. Cheers, Tim W. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 And interior colors. Some of the painting instructions seem a bit iffy. Neutral grey bomb bay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 Looks like I'll be needing an additional tail turret for Going My Way. Any word on the AM front on this? Cheers, Tim W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonGUSA Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 Hey Tim If your talking about turrets, no luck as of yet. There are canopy masks from DNA, decals for a few birds, instrument panel from Airscale and brass landing gear inserts which are copys of the kit inserts. There are full metal casts of the kits gear, but they are white metal and with 300 to 350 grams of weight in the nose they will fold up like Japanese origami. Ron G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 10 minutes ago, RonGUSA said: Hey Tim If your talking about turrets, no luck as of yet. There are canopy masks from DNA, decals for a few birds, instrument panel from Airscale and brass landing gear inserts which are copys of the kit inserts. There are full metal casts of the kits gear, but they are white metal and with 300 to 350 grams of weight in the nose they will fold up like Japanese origami. Ron G Thanks--I've heard some rumors about Brassin, haven't seen anything concrete anywhere. Hopefully I can get an extra tail turret from someone/somewhere and I can work with that. Got the Airscale instruments and have some resin radios and a bombsight on order. We'll see, I guess! Cheers, Tim W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonGUSA Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 Hey Tim Make sure you use the brass inserts for the landing gear, there only about 20 bucks. And are well worth it. They are from Aeroscale I believe. You need to add so much weight to the front of this that the kits gear without the brass inserts won't hold up the weight. You can see from the way Hobbyboss made the landing gear that they wanted to make the inserts out of metal but rushed the kit to market with plastic inserts. You can contact HB and see if you can get a replacement rear turret and use it for the front one. Hobbyboss supposedly is replacing the frosted front turrets with corrected ones if you contact them. I found this out here and on LSM. If you go to LSM and check out posts from Crankycrafstman (thats me) you can see the issues with the landing gear. Ron G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 19 minutes ago, RonGUSA said: Hey Tim Make sure you use the brass inserts for the landing gear, there only about 20 bucks. And are well worth it. They are from Aeroscale I believe. You need to add so much weight to the front of this that the kits gear without the brass inserts won't hold up the weight. You can see from the way Hobbyboss made the landing gear that they wanted to make the inserts out of metal but rushed the kit to market with plastic inserts. You can contact HB and see if you can get a replacement rear turret and use it for the front one. Hobbyboss supposedly is replacing the frosted front turrets with corrected ones if you contact them. I found this out here and on LSM. If you go to LSM and check out posts from Crankycrafstman (thats me) you can see the issues with the landing gear. Ron G Thanks, I did read that. I thought about adding a metal boarding ladder to the aft entry hatch like on the old Monogram kit, but am not sure if that's feasible. Will be getting the metal inserts, though. Rather surprised they didn't have something like Trumpeter does with this kit, e.g., choice of metal landing gear. Cheers, Tim W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pup7309 Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 I wonder if someone will bring out a nose section for B24L/M/N?. Too much resin, I imagine, might be easier to do plastic surgery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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