Smokey Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Chris, like the faded OD and the battle damage looks really real. Took a lot of notes from you build. Dan chrish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Love that battle damage, Chris! This build is awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted March 12, 2020 Author Share Posted March 12, 2020 Thank you very much! I've got a bit more done on the B-17 I'm going for a badly weathered and faded (trying to follow the book cover art) fabric control surfaces That's all for now Thanks for looking Learstang, LSP_K2, daveculp and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misha71 Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 amaizing project well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted March 13, 2020 Author Share Posted March 13, 2020 Thank you! I've got the tail feathers painted and weathered. Figured it was time to snap the thing together and recharge my mojo seeing it as a aircraft and not a collection of various colored of green parts. Thanks for looking Dutch Man, Bil, USMC Herc and 18 others 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fvdm Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 I think this looks fantastic. What a great project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subodai Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Such a beautiful piece of work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phartycr0c Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Wonderful, simply wonderful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveculp Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Looks terrific! A reminder - they were probably flying with some right rudder. (I don't think that was depicted in the painting.) Also, I saw the painting shows an ADF "football" antenna installed. I don't know if it's correct or not, but if you need one I just printed up a batch and would be happy to mail one to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted March 13, 2020 Author Share Posted March 13, 2020 Thanks for looking and commenting. Very appreciated. I’m planning on adding some aileron rudder and a bit of up elevator, yes. And I’m not sure how accurate but the book painting does show a football antenna (the great kit includes one) and clear astrodome on the nose. None of my references show it to apply but in keeping with the book cover and painting I cut out the hole in the nose roof and will install the (also included in the kit) clear dome thanks for the advice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted March 14, 2020 Author Share Posted March 14, 2020 I've finally begun work on the deceased tail gunner having come up with the idea to add a slumped head to a resin torso and kind of tuck him in where he can be seen but not identified very well. At this time (no pics yet) he's been painted and test fitted to the seat in the tail turret.. Next up are the battle damage to that turret then assembly. I think there's light in the far end of this tunnel... Thanks for looking USMC Herc, Out2gtcha, Smokey and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvwse4 Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Really great!! chrish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Sidney Ruff Diamond Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 This takes me back to when I was a kid, seeing for the first time the diorama that the late, great Shep Paine built of a battle damaged B17-G (Monogram 1/48 scale). Remember the full colour pamplets that Monogram used to include with their big 1/48 scale kits, featuring dioramas created by Shep? I spent hours poring over those when I was a kid. chrish, MikeMaben and Out2gtcha 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted March 14, 2020 Author Share Posted March 14, 2020 Wow! Thanks! to have my work even closely compared to or even mentioned in the same sentence as sir Shepard Paine is overwhelming! Sir Sidney Ruff Diamond 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 Chris, that is really looking good! It does remind me of Shep's diorama! Shep could only have dreamed of the 1/32 detailed kits we have now. Sir Sidney Ruff Diamond 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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