1/9th Scale B-17G Bomber.

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[ATTACH]412002[/ATTACH] Main gear installed.

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[ATTACH]412003[/ATTACH] One of the fiberglass engine cowls before filling, sanding and priming.

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[ATTACH]412004[/ATTACH] The primed piece.

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[ATTACH]412005[/ATTACH] Here is one of the four 4 stroke engines. A Saito .91 inverted to retain a scale appearance. You can see the elastomeric engine mounts designed to reduce vibration to the radio equipment.

[StevenRB]

Enough for now. I've got calluses on my fingers.

[Tim Marlow]

Wow! Just Wow!

[Peter Gillson]

I agree with Tim - wow!

Peter

[StevenRB]

[ATTACH]412012[/ATTACH] One of the flaps edge on. 27 inches long.

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[ATTACH]412013[/ATTACH] Aileron installed in outer wing panel. I used a length of wire running all the way through to secure the aileron. I also used popsicle sticks as stand offs with holes drilled through them. The outer panel is already glassed and primed.

[rtfoe]

This is really a different art form taking into consideration weight distribution and lighteness of material used...now I know why some spackle compounds are so light.
Really great to see how it's done.

Cheers,
Richard

[Steven000]

Very nice Steven, brings back a lot of memories :thumb2:

[boatman]

HI Steven i forgot you was building this BI7 G an wow what a plane how big will it be wingspan an lenght ? an its gonna be R/C yea ? will you have to have a licsecne to fly this plane of this size an can you fly ok as i used to fly planes some freeflight an some controll line planes with a third line for throttle controll but i nr always crashed them sooner or later as everything happens so fast thats why i went into model ships things happen slower so gives me time to avert disater if possible an my brother is a real pilot on light aircraft but he does a lot of stunt flyin with his R/C planes an crashes now an then an even crashed in the tree tops lol but this model will be a whopper an more pics please as she is bein built
chris

[StevenRB]

The wingspan is 138" inches, the fuselage is 100" inches. I'm still a dunce when it comes to metrics. Go figure. No special license will be required. When I was a kid, we had some of those plastic fantastic Cox airplanes. I had a Sopwith Camel which I had hell to go a full circle. It went up, then down, up then down until I at least completed a full circle. Chucked it out within a month or two. Later in my 20's in the 80's, I talked a friend of mine into buying a P40 while I purchased a Stuka. We went to the local park at night and used the parking lot as our flight area.
Jim seemed to crash his early on while I had several laps on my Stuka. During this something weird happened. I heard a buzzing sound and the plane pretty well stopped going round in circles. My line had either broke or became untied and the plane took off on a beeline and hit a light pole dead center. I swore I had a free flight model. It was the most bizzare thing in modeling I had seen. Damn planes. Thank you everyone for your input. It's always nice to hear from you.

[Charlie Delta Foxtrot]

That’s an incredible project! Looks great so far!

[scottie3158]

Steven, That is Outstanding