jonwinn

Just bought some the other day, I have steel, aluminum, silver metalic, gold and copper. Testors small square bottles of enamel metalics.

I decided to add a couple bombs, I will pose the bomb bay open. Also built the engines.

The fuselage has had 27 grams of weight in the nose, all closed up and the ball turret installed.

More work, I have the ball turret painted and am at a halt. I just noticed part 77 is missing off the clear parts, the pilot's window for the canopy. I think I have seen sprues for sale for Minicraft kits on E Bay.

I started assembling the interior parts.

I put all the small glass in the fuselage halves. I am waiting for the sub assemblies I painted to dry so I can assemble the interior. The fuselage halves are taped for a test fit and to let the glass dry.

I started some work on the insides. I did a lot of reading, looking at pictures on the web and watched a few videos. I am going with a dark green for the nose to the radio room, withthe nose wheel well chromate green. The bombay can be gray or aluminum so I will go with aluminum. The waist gunners area was usually aluminum except the early camouflaged bombers which were chromate green. Seeing as though the one I chose is camouflaged I will go with chromate green, then the tail gun turret was dark green similar to the nose gun turret. There are other variations but this seemed logical to me for

Nice work so far. I built the Tamiya 1/48 Brewster Buffalo as an early WWII overall gray scheme, the kit was nice but it was an early Tamiya so not as detailed as there later ones. I also stray off and do HO diesel locomotives, mostly Blue Box unpowered like GP35s or U33s with decals for the liveries from my home in western New England. Will be watching the Buffalo's progress.

I did a test of the 2 fuselage halves with their front nose pieces and matched them up and taped them. It looks like a very good fit. The only problem I can see is with the guns, they are very thin and fragile, maybe 1/2 the diameter of the old Revell kit. I already almost broke one off the sprue by accident.

I did this same kit when I was in Jr High School about 1968, basic OD over light blue? Not sure why light blue, was Memphis Belle decals. I haven't built one since then! My older brother flew stick and tissue planes he built with Cox 049 engines, then ended up in Air Force after ROTC in 1970.

Here are the decals and the B-17 it will be shown with, old Revell 60s mold.

I need a 1/72 B-24 to go with my 1/72 Revell B-17F, I did the ancient Revell kit from the 60s and added a few things to make it look presentable. I am hoping the B-24 comes out as good, not looking for museum quality just close enough and a fairly decent shape. I have some left over decals from Iliad for planes flown by the stars so I will use the Jimmy Stewart decals for his first flight in WWII in a plane named by it's previous crew "Nine Yanks and a Jerk". Here is my start, I have the nose sections glued to the fuselage halves and started painting the cockpit Vallejo bronze green.

KA released this, old Fujimi F-14A Plus I think, according to Scalemates.

Yes, and they acted pretty good except one on the speed brake, that one did NOT want to settle down, it has at least 6 coats of Micro set on it.

All done as an early F-102A with no IR seeker, circa 1962.

Any pictures of a B-24L with ball turret removed and a floor ring twin 50 cal. gun installed? I have an L but it does not have this in the kit.

Thanks for that info, I am currently looking at an early B-24D with no ball turret. Thinking of going with the old 1/72 Revell B-24D and lots of scratch building, I still have a lot of card stock to use up!

Go here www.modelwarships.com then in forums to calling all ship fans then destroyers then Fubuki class

Go to Model Warships.com and then forums. Go to "Calling All Ship Fans" and trhen destroyers, then Fubuki class destroyers

Thanks, I will order with confidence then.

I was looking at purchasing an Academy plane and saw they had what I wanted. I dealt exclusively with them in the 90s and then they seemed to peter out. Is this a reicarnation of the old mail order place in TX? Are they back to being reliable like I remember in the 90s? Thanks

Also used for armor interiors

I think this the real seafoam green, that other color looks like an interior green of some sort.

Lil red stars

Kirk's Hobby and Variety in western MA...my older brother got me into that as he did stick and tissue line control planes with Cox .049 engines. I strictly did plastic, it was an old brick building with creaky wood floors, lots of comics and model train and model airplane magazines, penny candy and soda. Good old Mr Kirk was very helpful in supplying my brother what he needed to fly his creations. He eventually graduated to RC then years later soloed at ROTC in College. It was your typical early to mid 60s Aurora, Revell, Monogram, AMT and Guillows type of place. Where else could you get Pactr