CedB Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 With two weeks before my holiday I wanted something straightforward so I've pulled this from the stash: According to Scalemates a new tool - in 1963 Keeping to my WWII Europe theme I'll be (hopefully) finishing this one as "Kentucky Belle" which flew from Bungay, Suffolk in 1944. The sprues are old Airfix but I guess I should do some shots: A few loose bits but the bag was sealed so fingers crossed. And crew look! Also clear parts. Lots of clear parts: Untitled by Ced Bufton, on Flickr I don't have a masking set Hopefully this will be fun. Hopefully 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 A 1/72 B-24, sign me up Ced. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexN Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 No signs of mile-wide panel trenches (just ship-sized proud rivets)! Your lovely Spit MkXIX paint job showed them up a treat (?) in your previous lightning-build. Will be following with interest - especially to see if you can make the 2-week deadline (no pressure at at, at all, of course ). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyTiger66 Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 This is a proper kit. I never had this one, always wanted it. It's huge, it's got guns that go up and down and props that go round and it's....going.....to be..... great fun TT 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philp Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Just wondering what happened to you Ced as haven't seen a build in a while then a quick search and find this one. Built this back in my youth. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Nice Looking forward to this one Ced; I've got the Eduard (Academy) B-24D in the stash I don't know of any masks for the Airfix Lib; Eduard do one for the Academy kit and the Hasegawas. I don't know that either would be any use but they might be better than nothing... unless you particularly wanted to build up your home-masking skills? Anyway - happy building Cheers, Stew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amblypygid Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 I'm definitely in, can't believe that something this size qualifies as a 2 week build, Ced. I know it's not the most complex of kits, but it just feels like there should be more sprues in the box. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snapper_city Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 A trip down memory lane here. Watching with interest. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbudde Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Hello, of course I'm in. And for nostalgic reasons this: http://s1164.photobucket.com/user/bbudde1/media/liberator_zpstxjqpxgh.jpg.html and that: http://s1164.photobucket.com/user/bbudde1/media/2006AF3214_jpg_l_zpsv489qhrl.jpg.html (copyright by Airfix). Cheers and thanks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Good luck de riveting! Never built this one as I was never brave enough. As for masking, have you thought of not bothering, but instead using silver transfer striping and then sealing it in with Kleer? Don't know if this is practicable, as this would depend on way the canopy frames were depicted. https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/XPS3 Trevor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted July 15, 2016 Author Share Posted July 15, 2016 A 1/72 B-24, sign me up Ced. Hi Cookie and welcome! No signs of mile-wide panel trenches (just ship-sized proud rivets)! Your lovely Spit MkXIX paint job showed them up a treat (?) in your previous lightning-build. Will be following with interest - especially to see if you can make the 2-week deadline (no pressure at at, at all, of course ). Hi Alex - there's only 15 steps in the instructions (see below) so I should be able to bash this one together? This is a proper kit. I never had this one, always wanted it. It's huge, it's got guns that go up and down and props that go round and it's....going.....to be..... great fun TT Thanks Tony - I'm not promising anything will move after I've spilled glue all over it - ah, the old days... Just wondering what happened to you Ced as haven't seen a build in a while then a quick search and find this one. Built this back in my youth. Hi Phil Did you miss the PR Spitfires? That camouflage must be working! Nice Looking forward to this one Ced; I've got the Eduard (Academy) B-24D in the stash I don't know of any masks for the Airfix Lib; Eduard do one for the Academy kit and the Hasegawas. I don't know that either would be any use but they might be better than nothing... unless you particularly wanted to build up your home-masking skills? Anyway - happy building Cheers, Stew Hi Stew, glad to have you along. I've checked the clear parts this morning and (gulp) I think they should be, er, fun? I'm definitely in, can't believe that something this size qualifies as a 2 week build, Ced. I know it's not the most complex of kits, but it just feels like there should be more sprues in the box. Hi Chris and welcome - hopefully I'm not missing anything and can bash it pretty quickly. A trip down memory lane here. Watching with interest. Hi Mark and welcome. Hello, of course I'm in. And for nostalgic reasons this: http://s1164.photobucket.com/user/bbudde1/media/liberator_zpstxjqpxgh.jpg.html and that: http://s1164.photobucket.com/user/bbudde1/media/2006AF3214_jpg_l_zpsv489qhrl.jpg.html (copyright by Airfix). Cheers and thanks. Hi Benedikt - nice box art and I hope I can get close. My chosen scheme is NMF (I think) so should be more fun with the AK True Metal. Good luck de riveting! Never built this one as I was never brave enough. As for masking, have you thought of not bothering, but instead using silver transfer striping and then sealing it in with Kleer? Don't know if this is practicable, as this would depend on way the canopy frames were depicted. https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/XPS3 Trevor Trevor! You were never brave enough? Oh dear, that worries me I'm listening to Tim Vine's chat show in the background so apologies if I seem to be shaking as I post - he cracks me up. Some chicken jokes: - I bought a chicken-proof lawn; it's impeccable - This chicken came up to me and said "I can't find my eggs". I said "You must have mis-laid 'em" Boom boom tish. I have to listen to these at least twice to catch all the quick one-liners. Fifteen step instructions: Untitled by Ced Bufton, on Flickr They're fading a bit. Rivets? I don't do rivets but these look OK? Untitled by Ced Bufton, on Flickr First job is to get the eight crew painted: Oxygen masks. Hmmm. I'll aim for something olive drab with brown leather for the pilots. Masking? I think I will be developing my skills. I'd assumed I could use my normal Paul Budzik technique of burnishing down tape over the frame and cutting with a sharp blade: Um... not then. Perhaps I'll finally get to use this: which I bought after watching Paul's video. Perhaps I can just burnish it on and cut it, leaving the frame? Right, I'd better get on with it! 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_W Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 This is a proper kit. I never had this one, always wanted it. It's huge, it's got guns that go up and down and props that go round and it's....going.....to be..... great fun TT It has working undercarriage and control surfaces too. Not as good as Monograms bomb dropping dauntless though. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S5 modeller Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 (edited) Looking forward to this Ced, especially after seeing the results of your last spitfire build. Matt Edited July 15, 2016 by S5 modeller 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbudde Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Hello Ced. I got this bare metal foil ( Revell?) and you have to be very careful with it. It's super thin with a good risk of tearing and and the adhesive is not strong. I would put very thin white glue on frames to get it fixed better. But yo have to try, if it suits you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beard Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 I'll be tagging along, if I may. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonl Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Chicken jokes eh....(courtesy of my 11 year old son). Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the weird guys house! Knock knock... Who's there? Chicken.... ah ha!..... Ok I'll get my coat..... I'm in Ced.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbudde Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Why did the chicken crossed the road? To die in the rain. (Ernest Hemmingway) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dermo245 Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 This is going to be great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted July 15, 2016 Author Share Posted July 15, 2016 It has working undercarriage and control surfaces too. Not as good as Monograms bomb dropping dauntless though. Hi John - er, I'm not sure i'll have time to fit the hydraulics and a first look at the nose wheel doors is making me think, er, not working. Looking forward to this Ced, especially after seeing the results of your last spitfire build. Matt Thanks Matt and welcome Hello Ced. I got this bare metal foil ( Revell?) and you have to be very careful with it. It's super thin with a good risk of tearing and and the adhesive is not strong. I would put very thin white glue on frames to get it fixed better. But yo have to try, if it suits you. Hi Benedikt. The Bare Metal Foil is from the Bare Metal Foil Co of Michigan (I wonder what they specialise in?) and, at £6 a sheet, it had better be good. I mean, that like, ooo, €7 at current exchange rates (glum). Having said that we made £34 on a refund during the current 'problems' so I'm not complaining! I'll be tagging along, if I may. Welcome Simon, glad to have you along. Chicken jokes eh....(courtesy of my 11 year old son). Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the weird guys house! Knock knock... Who's there? Chicken.... ah ha!..... Ok I'll get my coat..... I'm in Ced.... Welcome Leon Why did the chicken crossed the road? To die in the rain. (Ernest Hemmingway) Ooo, deep... This is going to be great! Welcome Dermot - I hope I can live up to your expectations! But it's not looking that good. On the assumption that the multi-stage crew painting is going to be slower that assembling the internals I've cut these guys off the runners: Eight crew members. Well, six and two halves. I spent about an hour cleaning these up with a molding flash sander and Micromesh sticks and had a growing sense of, well, not spending my time wisely Two cabin stewards with trays and two pilots, all with high-altitude pressure discs in their suits - or are they ejector marks? It also looks like one of the pilots is a relative of Joseph Merrick. The rest of the crew aren't much better: but I did spend some time cleaning up the very realistic (irony) gun mounts. Have you noticed as well that they're all wearing USAAF issue onesies? Enough, I think. And no, I won't be bothering to fill the ejector marks - what would I use as a model for the 'correct' shape? I've also dry fitted the internals in another game of 'hide the ejector marks': Nice fit. Except the 'opening nose wheel doors' require a mechanism that isn't, I think, close to the original? There's a mass of other interior detail (not) and a detailed panel: also not. Although I have a cunning plan for this that cannot will probably fail. The instructions say the cockpit internals should be H81 - Pale Yellow. Is that right? It may just get blasted with IG like the rest. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Boyd Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 The Airfix kit provides you with Consolidated A-6 type nose & tail turrets. The nosewheel doors would have retracted inside the fuselage, so you could probably just leave them off and not worry about them. Check photos, though - if the a/c originally was manufactured with the Emerson nose turret, the nosewheel doors would open outward, even if the Emerson turret was replaced (repaired) in the field with a Consolidated turret at a later date. Nice fit. Except the 'opening nose wheel doors' require a mechanism that isn't, I think, close to the original? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbudde Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 (edited) Oh , hello Ced. For the crew: Not micromesh for the first time. It's Airfix 60th. Grit with 400 to 800! Cut the monster rings for the moveable MG's and putty the marks and the rest. Build the rings again finer. There is so much to come. Paint interieur is FS chromate green or yellow (H 81??? No!) No cockpit panel printed on the instruction again or eventually on the decal sheet? Cheers P.s.: Now I'm off here for the summernight flew market on the promenade. Going to get some little gems or not!? Till tomorrow. Edit: These are the guys you have to reproduce: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/RAF_Bungay_-_446th_Bombardment_Group_-_B-24_crew_44-40268.jpg for that one: http://warbird-central.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/44-40268.jpg And the interieur colour: H-81 or not: http://www.primeportal.net/hangar/bill_spidle/b-24j_44-44175/ My idea: FS chromate green with H-81 washing, That would suits it fine. Edited July 15, 2016 by bbudde 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blitz23 Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Intrigued to see how she turns out as I have this kit in my stash also 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallBlondJohn Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Aged about 12 I went on a school trip to Duxford and bought the Airfix B17G A Bit O' Lace. Mr Clifton the English teacher challenged me to build it with all the moving parts actually working. One day I shall have my vengeance... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossm Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Good luck with this and don't forget the nose weight! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob85 Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Looks like your getting stuck in Ced, really like the b-24 but don't have one in the stash and have always been afraid of the airfix version due to accuracy issues and my fear or rivets😬 Nice work and looking forward to what you do with it! Rob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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