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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Boeing Y1B-17 Project--1/48th Scale
« on: March 18, 2010, 06:27:00 AM »
The bombardier station has been a question mark since I first contemplated doing this conversion. I decided to simply get out the grinder and start removing plastic. The first photo is what's left after I removed the chin turret fairing from the forward fuselage.
The G fuselage really works pretty well to build the YB because the new bombardier sighting cutout goes exactly where the chin turret was.
This is the plug that I came up with. It still needs some adjusting before I glue it down, but you get the general idea of how it will look.
Figuring out how to get the correct window size and shape by adjusting the two side fairings was more of a challenge than I thought it would be.
Scott
The G fuselage really works pretty well to build the YB because the new bombardier sighting cutout goes exactly where the chin turret was.
This is the plug that I came up with. It still needs some adjusting before I glue it down, but you get the general idea of how it will look.
Figuring out how to get the correct window size and shape by adjusting the two side fairings was more of a challenge than I thought it would be.
Scott