B-17G Flying Fortress 'Miss Demeanor' 1/48 Monogram

[Guest]

Looking great Trey. Will be a beuty when you have done your thing on her.

Andy

[Guest]

Coming along nicely trey buddy hope conner is helping?

Martin

[Guest]

Build looks really good. It's all about the detail...

[Guest]

Amazing skills Trey...your eyes must be sniper class as Im having difficulty seeing the small details on picture....and your working with that scale for real..respects.

Danny

[Guest]

Andy thank you kindly

Martin ,Connors hands are full with his first Battleship build so he's left me to my own devices on this one,thanks again !

Waffen bucks,Danny thank you both!

So sorry for the long delay in updates work has been consuming my build time lately! I'm happy with the floor and bulkhead fit now,still need to add a lot of details yet. For that reason I'm not hard glueing parts in yet. For fit reasons it was essential to get the front floor level and fitted first,after a lot of test fits its properly aligned and level now. The forward bulkhead IP assembly ties into the front floor nicely now and a test fit of the fuse halves shows no major alignment problems in this area now. This has been the most challenging resin interior I've encountered to date!

[Gern]

Is this for your friend Trey? If so, he'll be mighty impressed - as I am - with the quality of your work.

Gern

[papa 695]

Impressive work so far Trey loving watching this beast come together

[yak face]

Looks amazing trey! Great work on a very difficult procedure , cheers tony

[spanner570]

Trey, just quietly watching in the wings.

Amazing detail.....Very impressive build.

Ron

[Guest]

Hey buddy that looks sweet. Perfectionist is your middle name .

Say hi to Bosun conner

Martin

[Guest]

I see you are putting us all to shame again Trey - fantastic detail. Cheers Derek

[flyjoe180]

Fantastic detail Trey, it is coming along nicely. Bet you can't wait for some larger airframe construction.

[Guest]

Dave yes its for my friend his Father was the co-pilot,and thanks!

Ian,Tony,Ron Thank you very much!

Derek I've seen your skills at work it would take a better Man than me to shame youthanks for the high regards all the same Sir!

Martin thank you and Connor says thanks again as well! He is totally absorbed in the HMS Belfast at the moment. The little guy is really eating into that Battleship,so appreciate the gift Sir!

Joe thanks and yes really looking forward to sealing this up! A real ugly possibility may prevent that though! Still trying to figure out wether the waist gun positions were staggered on this airframe. It was'nt built by Boieng it was a Douglas build and its making it difficult to verify the details and the serial numbers do'nt help much. So the waist guns could have been either,its driving me nuts!

The next issue was dealing with the nose turret. The resin parts deal away with the kit mount and solid floor which was innacurate. I needed to scratch the support assembly and attachment point from styrene tube and square stock. A pretty straight forward affair and was fairly easy to align using the top hole on the chin turret as a guide for placement

gave a basic wash to the navigators station,once buttoned up most of this area will be entombed and not seen

Opened the Verlinden upgrade set and wow lots more resin goodies to add!

Another test fit of the fuse and all still fits well

Lots more to come stay tuned

[papa 695]

A very interesting build to watch Trey and your doing a grand job so far ( but rather you than me with all that resin ha ha )

[ojays]

Amazing build, love the instument panel. Such detail! ****

Gregg