Triumph Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 (edited) Built out the box Revell 1/48 B-24D Liberator Flak Alley. Built by Ian Collis B-24D-25-CO Liberator 41-24225 Flak Alley boasted an athletic young woman attired in nothing but panties. Aside from this female form, five swastikas below its mission tally denoted that the combined claims of the aircraft's gunners made this bomber an ace. Belonging to the 68th BS/44th BG, Lost 24 Feb 44 on her 42nd mission. Crashed in a small village south of Gotha. Eye witness noted that after bombing the target, Gotha, Germany, this aircraft was hit by prop wash and fell out of formation. Enemy aircraft concentrated their attacks on this A/C and it began to struggle. Six chutes were seen to come out of the A/C before it was seen to explode at approximately 1328 hours. Ian made this kit years ago and while theres no doubt about his skills now, at the time with no internet for refrence, turned out there was a problem with the model, so I put it right. These two pictures show what I mean. First there was a gap with the cockpit glass,Tiny bit of filler and mixed some paint up inproved things, then the Red markings around the nose window, B/W picture dose not have them and I have never seen on any pictures of B-24s, but on the decal sheet and instructions it says to put them on. I went with the B/W pic and removed the decals on both sides and repainted the area, last was the rear guns, To much paint, thanks to some 'oven cleaner' I removed the paint and repainted the glass again, problem is Revell chosed to have a join slap bang down the middle of the blister, nothing to do but live with it Edited August 17, 2015 by Triumph 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave A Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Very nice clean build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Extremely well finished Liberator. It must really be big! Great job JR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Alan Bardell Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Very nice B24D good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbudde Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Like these Big Monograms. Clean built. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doozer1974 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Looks great, I like the fresh out of the factory look sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcode Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Nice work, looks great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris148 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 very nice clean build Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 That's really nice, cracking photos too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Like they said; Great build and pic`s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Henry Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 That's a nice build of one of the under appreciated workhorses of WWII. Thanks for posting. Bob H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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