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

[flyjoe180]

That's a big difference in the size of the bomb sights. More amazing detail going into this awesome build, look forward to more updates soon Trey.

[Guest]

Thanks Joe!

[Guest]

Loving it so far! The B-17's my favourite bomber

[Guest]

Making my eyes water just looking at those tiny detail, great work Trey. Cheers Derek

[takeslousyphotos]

I really do admire your patience and attention to detail Trey.......... How many hours so far ?????

Peter

[Guest]

Alex ,Derek thanks!

Peter thank you as well,appreciate that. I would geuss over 80 hrs into by now and hate to think about how many more to go!

Not much to report in,painting the bomb sight and forward controls. cheers Trey

[Guest]

The sights are mounted,almost forgot to put the windows in before hand! I had to do some fine sanding to get the windows in place due to the resin,the gun window had to be razor sawed apart to fit.

[flyjoe180]

Superb work Trey. Glad you remembered to put the glazing in, would have been a real pain otherwise.

[Vaughan]

Great detail Trey. Looking forward to the next set of photos.

[Guest]

This is looking truly amazing.

[Guest]

Joe thanks,yea was just starting to mount the sights and spotted the windows just in time!

Vaughan,James thank you both!

I'm moving aft again with the gun turret assemblies and the other side mounted 50's. Ordered a Verlinden set to upgrade it a bit



Also some brass barrels. These are really nicely made and are quite impressive considering how tiny those cooling jackets are!

[colin m]

Great work as ever Trey. But was just wondering - with all of this resin and PE going in, how heavy is this going to be when finished ?

[Guest]

trey this is looking mighty brilliant loving the attention to detail mate,and yes i`m watching from afar lol,keep it up

[Guest]

Colin thanks! Thats a good question,really have no idea about the weight! Hopefully it wo'nt be too much for the gear to support!

Ole thank you!

Cut off the plastic barrels and drilled holes for the metal ones



I added some ammo cans for a little more detail.



Not a lot of this will be seen once its buttoned up just had to add a little something to the otherwise stark assembly. Looking at photos of the real turret it was quite busy in there and rather tight,nothing compared to the close quarters in the ball turret of course.



Test fit looks good





on to the ball turret next!

[Guest]

they look really nice and the turret is really good also

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