Hi guys
having finished my WW1 dio, which I started in September (how time flys) I am about to start my next long-term project: a HK models 132 scale B-17G. It is a big kit!
The kit has a lot of interior details so I have bought some crew figures from the Canadian company Ultracast to crew the aircraft. Since not a lot would be visible through the windoew, there is going to be a twist; I'm going to chop up the aircraft into a number of little vignettes.
1- nose. Navigator and bombardier's area. The cut will be just infront of the cockpit. i'm toying with the idea of mounting it in a boxed dio so the viewer looks forward through the cut-section towards the nose But it may just be mounted on a brass rod.
2 - cockpit, bomb-bay and navigators areas - simple cut-away areas in the side of the fuselage to reveal the interior details. The wings will be truncated.
3 - waste gunner area; since gunners are firing out of both side a simple side cut-away may not work, so I am thinking of either a diagonal cut or mounting it so the viewer looks down the fusialge from frear to front, with the far end being the bulkhead and door to the radio operator's compartment.
4 - tail. Not sure about this. It may be too small for a cut-away so I may mount it on the ground with a couple of pilots walking past.
5 - landing gear. If by this stage i have the enthusiasm I am tempted to do a little vignette of the landing gar with a small amount of wing with some ground crew working on one of the engines.
fortunately I found out that Meng Aircraft modelling mag has run a series following ghe build of hhis kit by David Parker, and what is nice is that you can download pdf's of specific articles for £1 each rather than having to buy the whole back issue.
well, that's the plan, I am now just summoning up the courage to make a start.
Peter
well, that's the plan, lets see how it goes. nose are will be the first to work on.
having finished my WW1 dio, which I started in September (how time flys) I am about to start my next long-term project: a HK models 132 scale B-17G. It is a big kit!
The kit has a lot of interior details so I have bought some crew figures from the Canadian company Ultracast to crew the aircraft. Since not a lot would be visible through the windoew, there is going to be a twist; I'm going to chop up the aircraft into a number of little vignettes.
1- nose. Navigator and bombardier's area. The cut will be just infront of the cockpit. i'm toying with the idea of mounting it in a boxed dio so the viewer looks forward through the cut-section towards the nose But it may just be mounted on a brass rod.
2 - cockpit, bomb-bay and navigators areas - simple cut-away areas in the side of the fuselage to reveal the interior details. The wings will be truncated.
3 - waste gunner area; since gunners are firing out of both side a simple side cut-away may not work, so I am thinking of either a diagonal cut or mounting it so the viewer looks down the fusialge from frear to front, with the far end being the bulkhead and door to the radio operator's compartment.
4 - tail. Not sure about this. It may be too small for a cut-away so I may mount it on the ground with a couple of pilots walking past.
5 - landing gear. If by this stage i have the enthusiasm I am tempted to do a little vignette of the landing gar with a small amount of wing with some ground crew working on one of the engines.
fortunately I found out that Meng Aircraft modelling mag has run a series following ghe build of hhis kit by David Parker, and what is nice is that you can download pdf's of specific articles for £1 each rather than having to buy the whole back issue.
well, that's the plan, I am now just summoning up the courage to make a start.
Peter
well, that's the plan, lets see how it goes. nose are will be the first to work on.
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