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I've seen this one built up a few times and it definitely makes for a good conversation piece. Neat build.

Such a beautiful build Tom. Man you've gotta be proud of that!!!

Man I hate it when that happens. Bob's right though....it's at the easiest place on the car to repair.

Thanks Mike! Rusty....you know what to do..... Finished up with all the decaling this morning. Now.....for the not so good news. How in the world I managed to get the stabilizers painted wrong...I just don't know. Painted the bottoms with the topside color and vise versa. Currently stripping the paint from both of them and a re-do will be in progress on those.

Thanks Roger! You should give one a try bud. They're fun.

That IS cool! ?

Now she's starting to get some personality. Been goin' on with the cals for the last few days. Those #3's were giving me a little static but other than that everything else worked out. NOTE....Do NOT EVER buy decals from Peddinghaus. OMG they're bad. I only used the big 3's and the tail numbers out of the whole set. Just terrible in terms of out of scale lettering and walkway red dash sizes. It was like there was little to no research on them. For the rest of the stenciling decals I used the EagleCals set that I started out with on this one before I decided to build White 3.

That would've been the XB-38 Rusty and you're right....beautiful bird with those engines. Here's an article on them: https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-prettiest-b-17-flying-fortress-was-the-xb-38-1619966937

Thanks James. I've seen that one a couple of times. Theres footage with a black car getting fired upon with a lady in it and is a key part of the story. I'll see if I can find that. Very VERY good book.....but then again....pretty much anything from Adam Makos is an automatic winner.

Looking forward to this one!

Looks good Benton. I really have an appreciation for these tanks after reading Adam Makos' book , Spearhead. Excellent read and as I found out a very needed tank during WWII.

And those were from 88mm & 155mm flak shells as well. A man had to have nerves of steel to fly through that and what awaited them in the skies enemy aircraft wise. Towards the end of the war more and more German fighter aircraft were equipped with Mk108 cannon instead of piss ant machine guns and one or two well placed rounds would end it for a B-17. Mk108 round...

Lookin' good so far Dave!! That switch to 40 watt lighting paid off..

I applied a glosscoat to the top side yesterday using Vallejo's acrylic gloss. Dunno what it is about acrylic glosses but it was fairly difficult for me to apply (probably because I thinned it down too much ) and it puddled in a few areas on the starboard wing. Gimme some lacquer based clear and I can work wonders with it. This stuff is like me trying to speak a foreign language. Anyhow.... I sanded the irregularities out of the gloss, touched up some paint where I burned through in the sanding process and re-applied the gloss this morning. Cals are upcoming next....

That's for DANG sure!! Glad to have you along Mike! Luftwaffe colors and camo schemes are hard enough to research and to get right and then we throw in the sheen that they may or may not have. It's enough to drive a builder crazy. But you are right....it's fun to ponder all this stuff Rusty.

Very cleanly and well built car. Just outstanding work!!!!

I'm still here Rog. I'll be back here after my current project. Check the All The Rest WIP section.

You sir....are tha freekin' MAN!!!! Thanks a million for that Roger!!!!!

Lotsa details Marcos! Lookin' good so far ol' buddy.

Right??!! I love the He-111 as well. I've got a 1/48 scale Ju-88/ Fw190 Mistel in the stash. I've been contemplating building that. Ya know Rusty, the more research I do on late war German camo and paint the more I realize that arguments could be made on both sides for the flat and satin finishes. Check it out: Flat finish Satin/ semi gloss finish:

They look rather sinister.

Thanks Dave. Glad to have you hangin' around in here.

Really coming along on this one. That whole chassis looks the part brother.

Dive Nine made on in 1/24 scale in 2016 but finding one right now will be a bit tricky. Hiroboy has them listed but is currently out of stock.

Thanks for the input Rusty. I've still got a clear coat, cals and a flat coat to go but all of the finishes that I end up with have a slight sheen to them. 262's and late war German aircraft fall into a weird category in regards to color and finish. At that stage in the war materials of all kinds were very scarce so some of these 262's didn't have any paint at all and the paint that they did manage to get onto the aircraft was applied in super thin coats which didn't stand up to weather very well. You'll see some birds that have a noticeable shine and those seem to be the ones that hadn't had paint on 'em very long and others that look like hammered doggy doo because of the accelerated weathering. Another thing to consider was that late war camo was often applied in the field because they went from a lighter camo (for camo while in the air) to darker camo colors because of aircraft grounding due to lack of fuel. Basically they went from air concealment to ground concealment and those paint jobs were hastily applied rough due to the constant unit relocations. On those birds you'll see bad and splotchy color coverage. Factory paint jobs included color on top and lots of times no color bottom side so instead you'll see bare aluminum there.