1/72 Academy B-17F Memphis Belle

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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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Medicman71 wrote:Got the wing finished. Now on to the other wing.

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There ya go! We do one, then we do the other! Lovely work too.
Nice and clean.
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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.
Well there we go! I figured they were for something like that.
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KennyX wrote: There ya go! We do one, then we do the other! Lovely work too.
Nice and clean.
Thanks Kenny! I've gotten better at the whole PE thing.
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Re: 1/72 Academy B-17F Memphis Belle

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Got the second wing finished. Just need to prime and paint things so that I can start assembling.

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Re: 1/72 Academy B-17F Memphis Belle

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That is looking good!
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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.
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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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keavdog wrote:Looking sharp! Man PE in 1/27 scares me - heck PE at all scares me. Nice work.

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