themongoose Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Stunning how you made those plain rectangular blocks into MG’s!! You should do a stop motion video with those pics. Pretty cool. I’m still amazed at the end product. Wow fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted May 22, 2021 Author Share Posted May 22, 2021 Hi guys! Time for another up date!...still battling on with the Cheyenne turret and this post is all about Ammo boxes ,rounds and seats! So this first photo is of the two ammunition boxes I made from plastic card. I should point out at this stage that when I mounted them onto the Turret side walls I realized that they were far too long and had to cut them down to size!...1 step forward 2 steps back!..... So here they are attached to the side walls.... It was time to put some music on and settle down for the afternoon to make the ammunition belts!....Of course I have done this for all the other guns on this project so far and knew it would be a rather a laborious task! The belts are paper (so they can be flexible when placing them on the guns etc) and the rounds are hundreds of 4mm cut lengths of wire. ....more paper detail and by the end of the afternoon I had finished! Time to put some paint on them!.... I then placed them onto the ammunition boxes.... I then turned my attention to the outside of the turret. Most of the combat B17G Cheyenne turrets had the apertures where the barrels go through open...but the Warbirds have them closed off with zipped canvas as on "Fuddy Duddy" ....so this was replicated with the use of thin plastic. Both the 50 cals were then glued to the internal frame minus the barrels which I will place on when the turret is complete.... ....and the top plate was then glued into position over the guns..... It was at this stage that I shortened the ammo boxes....what a drag!....my own fault ...I should have studied the reference photos more carefully! It was now time to have a go at the old bicycle seat that the gunner sits on for hours on end!...I shaped a small block of balsa wood and covered it with thin plastic card and I also made the knee pads to go on either side of the seat..... ....and painted.... Looks bloody uncomfortable to say the least! With the gunners seat in place ...the last 6 photos are what the turret looks like so far! See you on the next post.. Thanks for taking a look! Cheers Fozzy Trak-Tor, Chek, Brett M and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Love your work. This has been such a great build. I look at those pics and it makes me image what it was like to be in this giant. fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted May 28, 2021 Author Share Posted May 28, 2021 (edited) Hi there every one Here is the next post on this 10 year post!.......nearly there now...he says! This post is all about adding more detail to the Cheyenne turret......so here we go....... These first 4 photos show pieces of wire I have added in and around the turret which is supposed to represent air ducts for de misting purposes....well at least that is what I am led to believe!...and I can't believe it took me all afternoon just to cut the wire into correct lengths and super glue them on...the glue just wouldn't set for some reason...mind you it is Bulgarian super glue! Once the glue was set I then painted them....the second photo shows the excess wire sticking up that will eventually be set against the frame of the perspex enclosure.... Next up was to scratch all the equipment that will go in the turret. I love doing this sort of thing!...... If someone can enlighten me on why the turret had 2 oxygen regulators I would be very pleased!...no end of research will tell me this reason!....oxygen outlets on either side of the gunner?....who knows!....I bet it's obvious and I just can't see it! Any how...the next 6 photos show all the equipment placed into the turret. .....the gunner really didn't have a lot of room in there! So I then replicated a portable oxygen bottle out of Milliput and plastic...made a little bracket for it and placed it in the turret for the gunner to bang his head on! So that's it for this post. Next up will be trying to make the sight and then placing the "canopy" on the top of it all!....which will then free me up to do the last bit of detailing which is the waist gun positions....and then..........well lets not get ahead of ourselves Fozzy! Until the next time ... Thanks for looking in Fozzy Edited May 28, 2021 by fozzy dodgem37, Sparzanza, Greg W and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 So fantastic. Great show, Fozzy. Sincerely, Mark fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted June 1, 2021 Author Share Posted June 1, 2021 Hi there..........Speeding along now! Here is the last of the internal detail of the Cheyenne Turret ...which involved making the gun sight.... So stage 1 was to make the sight platform....... Next up was the bullet proof glass shield .....I have to say I still wouldn't want to sit behind that!..... It was then attached to the frame work ...... Now came the real tricky bit! The N-8a Reflector gun sight is only 6 inches long in real life which relates to approx 8mm x 6mm in my B17.......so...teeny weeny! I have to say a few swear words were echoing from my office as I tried several attempts at getting it looking OK ish! I then painted the safety glass frame and added a pulley and cables...... The gun sight was then painted...... This was then seated onto the frame and photographed. I have to say that it's not exactly what it should look like but its a rough version of this real one!! Here's my attempt at the gun sight....... As I was photographing I took these shots from below looking up into the turret as if I was the gunner!.....I thought it might show the cramped conditions the gunner would have to endure for 12 hours in freezing conditions ....I must be going mad! OK.....so next on the agenda for the next post is placing the canopy frame on top of the turret! Until then happy modelling guys! Cheers Fozzy Sparzanza, Greg W, Shawn M and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 Excellent work, Martin! So impressive, what you're achieving here. Kev fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted June 2, 2021 Author Share Posted June 2, 2021 7 hours ago, LSP_Kevin said: Excellent work, Martin! So impressive, what you're achieving here. Kev Thanks Kev! LSP_Kevin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 Those shots looking up do give the impression of how tight it was. You’d be even colder because it sure looks cramped, no flexing your joints and moving to stay warm in there! fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 Hi everyone Here then is the Cheyenne turret finished to the best of my abilities! The canopy for the turret wasn't as simple as I thought it might have been! A few months back I had made the canopy to fit over the turret detail but when I looked at it more closely I noticed that the small window apertures behind the main front perspex were way to small!....and so started the re designing of the frame....after a few attempts of dry fitting to the fuselage I think I cracked it! So the first 2 photos we have the modified canopy frame............ To make the perspex (glass) I raided my box of used food packaging and found a nice little piece that once covered a shaving stick package!.....it wasn't too thick luckily as I had to bend a piece around the front!....I cut them to the correct shape and then super glued the front wrap around piece first. DISASTER!.....when the glue set I noticed it warped the frame!...aaaggghh!.....the plastic was too thick after all and so I had to take it off and find some thinner plastic that would do the job!....this time the thinner plastic worked and I placed the remaining pieces on the frame. I then glued the entire frame over the turret and on to the fuselage. When it was set I placed a few of the aluminum pieces on parts of the frames as you can see in these next photos..... All I had to do now ...(which normally takes a couple of days)... place the rest of the Aluminum around the frame. Of course I have to do the entire rear fuselage section but I have to wait until the top and bottom halves are on! This now completes the Cheyenne turret at long last! This is what she looks like at the blunt end of the fuselage!!! I think my next task is to do the elevator connection detail....so that will be my next post! I can now definitely see the light at the end of the tunnel ...after 10 long years!...you must all be sick of the the sight of it!! ...I know I'm beginning to!.. ha ha! Thanks once again for looking in... Cheers Fozzy chukw, themongoose, brahman104 and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Amazing! fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 killer work my friend fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Fantastic work, Martin! Kev fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy Posted June 17, 2021 Author Share Posted June 17, 2021 Cheers chaps! CODY 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Nice work Fozzy! The aluminium work around the turret looks spot on! What an epic adventure this has been, although I've thoroughly enjoyed following your progress. Craig fozzy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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