dodgem37 Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Fantastic Fozzie! Sincerely, Mark fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Love it! Fantastic scratch building! fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 Thanks a lot chaps! Dutch Man 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted July 4, 2020 Author Share Posted July 4, 2020 Morning fellow modelers! I have been doing the laborious task of making up the entire interior with all the ribs etc!....this was only achievable by listening to all my favorite bands on my player ...taking the occasional paracetamol when my head started to ache from staring at hundreds of little pieces of plastic!!....and having the time on my hands to get through it!!..........still needs must and all that! I'm so pleased that this phase is over because from now on the build becomes more interesting ....and hopefully for you guys as well!.......so here are the photos of all my effort! First I glued strips of plastic onto the yogurt pot walls representing the vertical ribs ...and then I had to cut hundreds of pieces of plastic representing the horizontal ribs.... so that I could glue them between the vertical ribs .....this sounds as boring as it was! So here we go then!............. .....a week later it was time to spray the base interior green! PHEW!................. I decided to prepare the balsa wood fuselage for skinning with the aluminum sheets ,which I will do at a later stage...(it also strengthens the fuselage)......so to that end I covered the fuselage with tissue glued on with PVC glue and then brushed on shrinking dope. Now its as tough as old boots and I am as high as a kite! This afternoon I will have a go at preparing the riveting on the dorsal fin and then maybe spray it tomorrow! Probably one more post to go for a while as I'm off to see my wife in UK....due to this Pandemic I have been stuck here in Bulgaria and haven't seen her since last March! See you on the next post! Cheers Fozzy Greg W, dodgem37, LSP_Kevin and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 A Herculean effort, Fozzie. Great project. I'm sure your being back together will be a relief to you both. Sincerely, Mark fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Excellent effort Fozz! Glad you finally get to see the wife after all this time. fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted July 13, 2020 Author Share Posted July 13, 2020 Hi guys Well this will definitely be the last post before I return to the UK for a month or so....I will be returning back in September to continue with this project! What I wanted to do was get as much done as possible with the tail /rudder and dorsal fin before my break and so first off I sprayed the tail unit yellow. This was more difficult than I thought as my airbrush decided to give up the ghost!...when I turned the outlet valve on the compressor to send the air flow to the brush the blasted thing kept spraying and I couldn't stop it! the only way was to turn the outlet **** off to stop spraying! I have had the air brush for many years so I am not surprised to be honest. I think the air in let valve is knackered...thought it might be blocked with dried paint but that isn't the case.Any way I will buy a replacement when I'm in the UK. So I manged to cope with the yellow paint being half sprayed on the model and half all over the place!.....here is the tail unit now sprayed! Now came the tricky bit!.....no decals in 1:20 scale so I had to make them all. The base colour of black/white was sprayed in the appropriate place and then I made the markings by cutting out the numbers/letters from some sticky back Teflon....you can see I am in the process of doing this in this next photo........ Once the paint had dried I took off all the masking and here is the end result...... There are two greenish stripes that also have to be sprayed on the tail but need to have the two half's completed and skinned before I can do that. So the tail is now virtually complete (a few more minor details to add later). Of course there is all the interior parts to be scratched yet ,which is what I will look forward to do in September! I needed to take a look at the whole thing to see how she was looking so far!....by doing this you can also see if there are any headaches to sort out down the road. So to that end I got the completed front section out of it's box and temporarily attached it to the rear section and took a few photos.....what do you think so far?.... Its huge!...the model that is!...like a meter in length....don't quote me on that....but it's ...HUGE!! OK....So I will continue with this beast in September and so until then happy modelling and stay safe guys! Cheers Fozzy Landrotten Highlander, Greg W, TaffyMan and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 What do I think so far? I think it’s phenomenal! The tail looks brilliant to my eye, and the markings and stencilling is very authentic. I hope your trip to the U.K. goes well and safe travels. Tom Landrotten Highlander and fozzy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landrotten Highlander Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 wot 'e said fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokey Pete Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Staggering! fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 I think this is a Masterpiece. Sincerely, Mark fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted July 13, 2020 Author Share Posted July 13, 2020 Thanks guys!...catch you in September! Fozzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 (edited) Good morning chaps! How are you all getting along?...still staying safe in this bl##dy pandemic I hope! Long time no modelling!......I'm back from UK now and back in Bulgaria to start once again on this mammoth task I have given my self!.......after a such a long period away from scratch building it seems to have taken me a few weeks to get my act together! That's me trying to get my act together!! How ever.... I decided to start off again with something simple...although I still had problems with super glue not setting (Bulgarian!)...and the white glue hardened in the tub (Bulgarian!) I thought I would get the walkways done. Here is a photo of the main walkway that runs through the rear of the fuselage down to the rear entrance door. I used a thin sheet of balsa wood and covered it with simulated wood courtesy of Mr B+Q (paper wood examples!) and then glued a sheet of wet and dry emery paper to that! Here it is in the base of the bottom half of the rear fuselage...... A crawl way was then placed at the rear to allow the rear gunner to access the rear turret and a another floor was placed near where the tail wheel housing will eventually be...... With the two halves together this is what it all looks like...... OK....so now that I have re started this B17G.....I better buckle down and get as much done before the Xmas break! Thanks for having a look guys Cheers Fozzy Edited October 6, 2020 by fozzy LSP_Kevin, Trak-Tor, Greg W and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 (edited) Hi Guys.....I have been away for a couple of months and I can't seem to up load any photos correctly from postimages.....any one know why?...has this site changed? Cheers Fozzy [url=https://postimages.org/][img]https://i.postimg.cc/fb42cd8m/WALKWAYS_(4)_a.jpg[/img][/url] see above!! [url=https://postimg.cc/k2mYcwHp][img]https://i.postimg.cc/k2mYcwHp/mhe-002-zpse812vddx.jpg[/img][/url] Edited October 6, 2020 by fozzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 (edited) test Edited October 6, 2020 by fozzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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