krow113 Posted January 14, 2016 Posted January 14, 2016 Clear plastic and paint no financial investment. . Funny at the contest standing baclkand watching the doubletakes as peeps thought it was actually spinning!
2002p51 Posted January 14, 2016 Author Posted January 14, 2016 Took a break for a while (vacation to Florida actually) but today I got the heavy lifting part of the paint job done. Masking off the de-icer boots took 3 or 4 times longer than it took to actually spray them. Next I can start adding some the detail parts, gun turrets and such, then it's decal time. Man this thing is huge!
2002p51 Posted January 15, 2016 Author Posted January 15, 2016 Decals are done. These just might be the best decals I've ever used on a plane or a car. They're super thin, very opaque, go on easy, and snuggle down perfectly. There are about a hundred little small stencil decals like you usually see on military planes but since this will be hanging from the ceiling I think I'm going to save my eyes and my nerves and skip 'em!
Snake45 Posted January 15, 2016 Posted January 15, 2016 Clear plastic and paint no financial investment. . Funny at the contest standing baclkand watching the doubletakes as peeps thought it was actually spinning! So they'd never seen an actual real-life spinning prop? Just photos of them?
krow113 Posted January 15, 2016 Posted January 15, 2016 No just like all model contests the room was full of 45 and up types who can barely see. B-17 looks great!
2002p51 Posted January 15, 2016 Author Posted January 15, 2016 I'm calling it done. It's far from IPMS ready but it will look just fine hanging from the model room ceiling so I'm happy with it. I'm also glad to be done with it. It took up a lot of room on the workbench and there were times when it was tricky finding ways to hold it and move it around while working on it. No more "big" planes for me!
Lunajammer Posted January 15, 2016 Posted January 15, 2016 As cool as it will look in your home, it's kind of a shame to let so much work just hang so all you see is grey and props. One of the reasons I drifted away from planes, too much goes unseen, yet I can't not detail them. But the B-17 is such a handsome plane and I'm sure a lot of us wish we had yours hanging in our homes. Nice work.
2002p51 Posted January 15, 2016 Author Posted January 15, 2016 As cool as it will look in your home, it's kind of a shame to let so much work just hang so all you see is grey and props. One of the reasons I drifted away from planes, too much goes unseen, yet I can't not detail them. But the B-17 is such a handsome plane and I'm sure a lot of us wish we had yours hanging in our homes. Nice work. Thanks. I thought about what you're saying and I'm not going to hang it right up against the ceiling but a little lower and in a bank so I'll see lots more than just gray and props.
Snake45 Posted January 16, 2016 Posted January 16, 2016 I'm calling it done. It's far from IPMS ready but it will look just fine hanging from the model room ceiling so I'm happy with it. I'm also glad to be done with it. It took up a lot of room on the workbench and there were times when it was tricky finding ways to hold it and move it around while working on it. No more "big" planes for me! For some reason, this picture starts the soundtrack of the movie Heavy Metal playing in my head!
2002p51 Posted January 16, 2016 Author Posted January 16, 2016 For some reason, this picture starts the soundtrack of the movie Heavy Metal playing in my head!
Snake45 Posted January 16, 2016 Posted January 16, 2016 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pw8fX3pYLFQ/hqdefault.jpg
bogger44 Posted January 17, 2016 Posted January 17, 2016 Nice work on that big 'ol bird. I'd like to build mine one of these days, if I can come up with the acreage to put it lol.
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