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Re: 1/72 Pro Modeler B-17 909
« Reply #45 on: April 18, 2020, 10:01:34 PM »
Good to see this one back on step!

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Re: 1/72 Pro Modeler B-17 909
« Reply #46 on: April 18, 2020, 10:18:27 PM »
Thanks!  Today I've gotten the other cowl on, the turbos and exhaust pipes are painted and drying now.  I was going to paint the red around the fuel caps on top of the wing but I found all my small paint brushes are frazzled so more are on the way.

As I've tried to paint small items in the last few days again, even with all my LED and incandescent lighting in the room it's very apparent I can't see as well as I'd like to anymore!

I'm also a little worried about the ball turret.  It needed to go in before the fuselage halves were together and I recall making a decision to leave it out rather than paint it, install it and then paint the plane around it.  I don't know if I had a plan on how to install it afterward though...

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Re: 1/72 Pro Modeler B-17 909
« Reply #47 on: April 19, 2020, 12:22:20 AM »
Exhausts are done.


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Re: 1/72 Pro Modeler B-17 909
« Reply #48 on: April 19, 2020, 08:21:07 AM »
Brass paint?

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Re: 1/72 Pro Modeler B-17 909
« Reply #49 on: April 19, 2020, 03:55:24 PM »
Testors 1166 flat brown.



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Re: 1/72 Pro Modeler B-17 909
« Reply #50 on: April 19, 2020, 04:38:31 PM »
 :-ok :-flo

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Re: 1/72 Pro Modeler B-17 909
« Reply #51 on: April 20, 2020, 03:46:35 AM »
I did a little foiling tonight on the stainless area behind the cowls.  Tomorrow I'll do the areas around the turbos.


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Re: 1/72 Pro Modeler B-17 909
« Reply #52 on: April 21, 2020, 04:13:03 AM »
I wish the foil was darker and more closely replicated stainless steel but I have a bunch of aluminum on hand and I'm also afraid that if I stopped a week to wait for foil then I'd lose my momentum and not finish the model again.  I'll darken it up when I start weathering and they won't be so bright. 

It was interesting to me when I started paying close attention to exactly where the stainless starts and stops, that almost every operator has painted their panels differently.  On the engine cowls, some such as 909 have just the small section that I applied the foil too, and some of them are unpainted to the next joint back.  On exhaust areas some are unpainted on engines 2 and 3 where it leaves the cowl around the landing gear, some are painted.  On the undersides around the turbos everybody seems to have done something different there too.  Even during different periods in it's life 909 sometimes did or did not have paint around the exhausts on the 2 and 3 nacelles.  I think what I've done correctly depicts 909 for the time period I'm trying to replicate.



I have some minor paint touch up to do and then I think I'm reading for decals tomorrow.

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Re: 1/72 Pro Modeler B-17 909
« Reply #53 on: April 21, 2020, 09:05:15 PM »
:-ok

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Re: 1/72 Pro Modeler B-17 909
« Reply #54 on: April 21, 2020, 11:45:40 PM »
Yeah, the nacelle pieces are usually painted or not painted just depending on who is doing the maintenance on the airplanes. The dishpans (the ones you foiled) are usually a stainless steel color or even a little darker. I can't remember even seeing the pans from Texas Raiders when we were working on it but we kept the ones on Chuckie in their natural color. If we'd kept the airplane long enough, I was going to repaint the anti-glare panels and would have included that part of the dishpans just like the Vega painters did. It sort of bugs me that none of the OD airplanes paint the dishpans like they were originally, but it's easier to maintain them in bare finish.

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Re: 1/72 Pro Modeler B-17 909
« Reply #55 on: April 22, 2020, 12:23:44 AM »
Did I take the foil too far back on the inboard engines, Scott?  There is a panel line break just above the exhaust outlet on the turbos and then the next panel line is where I stopped.  It looks excessive the way I have it but I couldn't find any good shots of 909 showing this clearly.

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Re: 1/72 Pro Modeler B-17 909
« Reply #56 on: April 22, 2020, 02:44:34 AM »
It looks like you stopped on the correct panel line according the the photos of the late 909 I've seen.

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Re: 1/72 Pro Modeler B-17 909
« Reply #57 on: April 23, 2020, 05:11:37 PM »
Looks excellent !

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Re: 1/72 Pro Modeler B-17 909
« Reply #58 on: April 23, 2020, 10:19:35 PM »
Thanks!

I've been working on decals for the last three days as time allows.  The national insignia on the bottom is on also.  In addition to the insignias and stripes on the wings I've so far applied 44 small stencils to the wings and fuselage.  I have 36 more stencils to go.  :-/


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Re: 1/72 Pro Modeler B-17 909
« Reply #59 on: April 24, 2020, 06:51:00 AM »
:-ok
Stencils are really time consuming...