1/72 Academy B-17F Memphis Belle
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jeaton01
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Re: 1/72 Academy B-17F Memphis Belle
One is the carb air intake and the other is the intercooler air inlet for the turbocharger, which exhausts out the 4 vents on the top of the wing behind each engine.
Re: 1/72 Academy B-17F Memphis Belle
There ya go! We do one, then we do the other! Lovely work too.Medicman71 wrote:Got the wing finished. Now on to the other wing.
Nice and clean.
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Medicman71
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Re: 1/72 Academy B-17F Memphis Belle
Well there we go! I figured they were for something like that.jeaton01 wrote:One is the carb air intake and the other is the intercooler air inlet for the turbocharger, which exhausts out the 4 vents on the top of the wing behind each engine.
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Re: 1/72 Academy B-17F Memphis Belle
Thanks Kenny! I've gotten better at the whole PE thing.KennyX wrote: There ya go! We do one, then we do the other! Lovely work too.
Nice and clean.
Mike
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Medicman71
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Re: 1/72 Academy B-17F Memphis Belle
Got the second wing finished. Just need to prime and paint things so that I can start assembling.
Mike
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Re: 1/72 Academy B-17F Memphis Belle
That is looking good!
To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..
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That's great PE work Mike!
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Looking sharp! Man PE in 1/27 scares me - heck PE at all scares me. Nice work.
Thanks,
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Re: 1/72 Academy B-17F Memphis Belle
Looks awesome! Once upon a time I did a visible B17, I added Eduard pe to it also, there must be a few hundred pieces of pe that can be put on if a person wants to... Watching for more!
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Re: 1/72 Academy B-17F Memphis Belle
keavdog wrote:Looking sharp! Man PE in 1/27 scares me - heck PE at all scares me. Nice work.
I used to be that way too. After doing a few simple kits with very limited P/E included; I've slowly gotten better and more relaxed about it. The use of Gator Grip Glue from Kenny Loup has also helped me enjoy it better.
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"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.