monthebiff Posted March 13 Author Share Posted March 13 37 minutes ago, nmayhew said: I have pics which clearly show front, middle and rear turrets with guns when painted as an assembly ship i did a lot of research on this bird a few years back as I was specifically looking for an assembly ship which was not ‘toothless’, and they are hard to find. from memory, the guns are shown early on in its assembly ship ‘transition’, and the paint scheme evolved in the end it just went back on the ‘file it away’ shelf, mainly because although I like the shark mouth, I don’t like the name so the whole project got parked. Like you I've spent a long time looking for pictures and agree that there is definite pictorial evidence of her carrying nose , upper and rear turret gunns in her early days as an assembly ship, would love to know what the lower turret situation was as you cannot see it at all, I'm wondering if it was removed as faired over? Regards. Andy mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 It’s what you want it to be in the lack of any evidence Andy! MikeC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmayhew Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 10 hours ago, monthebiff said: Like you I've spent a long time looking for pictures and agree that there is definite pictorial evidence of her carrying nose , upper and rear turret gunns in her early days as an assembly ship, would love to know what the lower turret situation was as you cannot see it at all, I'm wondering if it was removed as faired over? Regards. Andy were they not retracted when on ground anyway? am I talking b*ll*cks? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthebiff Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 You are correct but sometimes you can just see then peeking out as in not fully retracted. I think I'm going to fit the turret to my build when U get to that point t. Regards. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Looking at the first picture you posted, I'm fairly sure the ball is removed and the hole faired over. You can usually see the slight indentation and very bottom of the turret when retracted and there's nothing visible at all in the picture. And why carry all that extra weight if the turret is not needed..? Tom monthebiff and MikeC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthebiff Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 5 hours ago, tomprobert said: Looking at the first picture you posted, I'm fairly sure the ball is removed and the hole faired over. You can usually see the slight indentation and very bottom of the turret when retracted and there's nothing visible at all in the picture. And why carry all that extra weight if the turret is not needed..? Tom Good spot Tom and thank you for that. I can se exactly what you mean when compared with othe B24's with the turret retracted, so faired over it is then! Regards. Andy mozart, MikeC and tomprobert 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthebiff Posted March 30 Author Share Posted March 30 It's been a while since I worked on this one so after nearly 5 years it's time to start again . I'd been wondering how to approach this build and after studying many pictures decided to open p the cockpit rear bulkhead so more can be seen inside. So this is what I had done initially And this is what I've ended up with today A bit rough around the edges but happy and will definitely open things up. Regards. Andy Landrotten Highlander, Gazzas, Azgaron and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azgaron Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Nice work so far! Håkan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Looking forward to this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kagemusha Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Late March early April 1945 the 491st BG Liberators started to use the former 492 BG marking, outer of vertical tails were white or silver, with a black diagonal stripe. Tubarao is Portuguese for shark. BradG and Azgaron 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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