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R Spreckley

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  1. Thats all the detail completed inside the fuselage, so now time to close her up..
  2. I have finally started painting the interior; I decided to go with an interior green with a dark green wash. I have also started to pick out some of the instrument detail insulation and I have attempted my first wood effect using light brown, with a darker wash and finished of using a shortened brush; applying a brown ochre oil paint.
  3. Sorry for the lack of updates, I have been doing a few bits, but it didnt really justify an update..but as I have been putting all the individual builds together it is now time to show how it is going. I decided to open up the tail gunners access ahtch as it seemed a waste to hide all the eduard PE, so a bit more scratch building done, including the shroud for the tail wheel. I have alos added the sides to the bomb bay and started to detail the nose section. I am now at a point where I have added and masked most of the clear parts. I am getting really excited and spending quite alot of time
  4. Archer transfers are looking great on the wing..only took 2hrs, I have also treated myself to a set of ultracast props..they will make the extra detail on the engines worth it.
  5. Great progrtess made these past few days, undercarriage done, and I also tackled the quickboost engines. I added some scratch building and I think they win hands down compared to the kit parts..
  6. The verlinden resin kit and the eduard PE external kit for this B17 makes all the difference, I am very pleased how the wing is now looking...just need to rivet it now...
  7. Major Walt, thank you for your kind words, yes she has certainly captured my imagination! I just hope I do her justice. I took the plunge and decided to replace the turbo system and exhaust with a resin set I had. I am glad I did, I think the added detail justifies the swearing, cutting and filling, just need to do the other 3 and tidy them up!!
  8. Sorry for the lack of updates, I have been doing a few bits, but it didnt really justify an update..but as I have been putting all the individual builds together it is now time to show how it is going. I decided to open up the tail gunners access ahtch as it seemed a waste to hide all the eduard PE, so a bit more scratch building done, including the shroud for the tail wheel. I have alos added the sides to the bomb bay and started to detail the nose section. I am now at a point where I have added and masked most of the clear parts. I am getting really excited and spending quite alot of time
  9. I have finished the rivetting on the fuselage and I am so chuffed with the result, it looks so much better! I have now started detailing the gun turrets, especially the rear gun which was woeful in detail, so I have added some papaer mache for the canvas and detailed it with some styrene. All finished off with the Eduard gun barrells.
  10. Joel, Thank you for your comments. No I didnt make the cover a local company to me made it for a reasonable cost, I thoughimportant to invest in one dueto the time and effort I am putting into this build.
  11. I thought I would start on the archers rivet transfers, really pleased how it is turning out, and not such a big job really.....
  12. Decided to tackle the APU and side gunners positions and start the PE detailing.
  13. It was a bit of a catch up, I started this build in august. From now on its now real time. More detail today, I wanted to show the little known or portrayed life raft stowage compartment, so I have cut out the access door and scratch built the interior, I will add the liferaft at some point.
  14. I have started on the diorama base which was done using a light oak picture frame, the ground itself was foam board with cuts made with a hobby knife, the tarmac/concrete was airbrushed and I used modelling grass for the other bits, it is still work in progress as I am new to dioramas. The acylic top was made by a local firm to me strikingdiplays in West Sussex. I have also continued wih the internal ribbing, which is now nearly complete.
  15. More progress today, scratchbuilding and photoetch in the radio compartment. More progress, interior detailing and ball turret mount...
  16. The Big Ed photo etch is superb and Eduard have excelled themselves, to make thing interesting I am alternating between interior and exterior detail. In 1981, Sally B was introduced to a wider audience through her first TV role as B-17 Ginger Rogers in London Weekend Television’s (LWT) We’ll Meet Again. By 1982, plans were well underway for the first Great Warbirds Air Display (GWAD) at West Malling when tragedy struck. Ted was killed when his T-6 Harvard, G-ELLY, crashed during an air rally in Malta. Devastated by the disaster, Elly and the team pulled themselves together to hold the
  17. This is my big build of 2014. I have always been a big fan of the last flying Fortress in europe and i have visited her many times at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford England. (All history ane information has been taken from the Sally B preservation Society website) Businessman and pilot, Ted White brought F-BGSR to Britain via Biggin Hill to the Imperial War Museum Duxford, as N17TE, in March 1975, to begin a new life as Sally B, named after Ted’s long-time companion Elly Sallingboe. Sally B made her debut at the 1975 Biggin Hill Air Fair, flying as the USAAF World War Two Memorial Flight.
  18. Painted some of the ordanance today, still needs to be touched up.
  19. Thought I would have a crack at the base. I wanted it to reflect the environment the snow cat worked in...
  20. A good few days doing some more detailing and general work. Seams sanded, FOD guards made, all interiors that are exposed painted and weathers, engine washed and weatherd, crew ladder built along with a fire extinguisher. Now to start the display base.
  21. Loving this, cant wait to see more.
  22. Great build..yes your right there is a 1:32 in all of us somehwere!!
  23. I love this aircraft and absolute beast designed for one thing only...
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