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Roland Sachsenhofer
First pictures of the first steps in the construction of a B-17G, whose mission role particularly appealed to me: I had long been fascinated by the sea rescue missions of this B-17 equipped with a droppable lifeboat! So I was delighted when I found one of the rare kits on the subject here on scalemates.
A few months ago I had already built an Academy 'Flying Fortress' in an early B version, the kit qualities of which I thoroughly enjoyed. The accuracy of fit is not far from 'perfect' and the details that are often missing in these Academy kits have to be added wherever it is important. In this case that means A set of etched parts for the cockpit and nose area, as well as an exterior set, especially for the engines and undercarriage, and resin tyres, also from Eduard. Not to forget: the seat cushions from Kits World were used in the cockpit

Łukasz Gliński
Lucky you! Following

Finn
I'm in

Roland Sachsenhofer
That makes me happy, Łukasz and Finn!
The SB-17G is slowly taking shape. The V-position of the wings needs to be changed: in my opinion, Academy has set a much too steep angle here! The corrected position of the wings also results in the distances at the wing-fuselage bonding points.... the fit here would be excellent!

Juergen Klinglhuber
following 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Das freut mich! 🙂

Roland Sachsenhofer
In preparation for the surface colours, I have now done the following: I have masked those stripes over the black primer that are to remain visible as black lines separating the NMF surfaces from the large yellow zones using suitably wide Tamiya masking tape. I also masked the areas on the leading edges that carry the rubber 'de-icers'.
Next, the anti-glare areas in front of the cockpit and on the inside of the engine nacelles are sprayed, then.... then come the Alclad metal colours!

Cuajete
Great! 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you!
There was not much to see of the SB-17 for a short time - the application of the yellow required extensive masking!

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress. I hope that there is no bleeding with that yellow paint 🙂

Roland Sachsenhofer
Looks like the installation of a new boiler... but is the very first shell of the 'Trevithick', the first steam locomotive....
The vintage kit doesn't appear to be bad and quite well thought out, only the plastic material in an unhealthy-soapy looking green plastic made me a little uneasy. But it will be fine! 🙂
I'm really looking forward to the next steps - a highly interesting and refreshingly different topic!

gorby
Looking forward to see what you can do with this oldie.

Alex K
👀

Roland Sachsenhofer
Appreciated, Gorby und Alex!

Roland Sachsenhofer
The main assemblies have now been completed. Care must be taken here to clean up the numerous ejection marks and the many moulding protrusions, but that's the only thing holding it up 🙂
The colours on the parts shown are, apart from the primer with black acrylic paint, Alclad II metal paints, namely Gunmetall, Steel... and above all Alclad ''Panzer Grey''. Traces of various shades of pastel crayon brown have been applied on top with a dry brush.

Juergen Klinglhuber
Sehr cooles Projekt - ganz nach meinem Geschmack. I'm curious about the outcome.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Das freut mich- very appreciated!

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat here, of course! (I have built another incarnation of this kit...)

Roland Sachsenhofer
Robert, very pleased!

René "Lord Bilbo" Bartholemy
@Robert Podkoński : Me too! Much less details than this one though...
Taking a seat!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Hello Rene, the seat is happily yours, but the show is already over 🙂
I am proud to present you the completed 'Trevithick'! It was great fun taking photos of this gearwheel, linkage and flywheel work of wonder. Please excuse the resulting large number of pictures.
This time Alclad paints were used for the colour scheme, but not only from the metal range: what you see here is Alclad's 'Panzergrau' primer, together with 'Gunmetal' and 'Smoke' and similar shades. I have replaced the plastic parts for the push rods with metal bars. I hope you like the result as much as I enjoyed building it!

bughunter
Sehr geil 👍

Alex K
That was quick! Great result, great photos! 👍

gorby
Nice result Roland.
I was wondering how they added more coal to the boiler when the tender is so far away and the boiler door is under the pistons.

Ben M
Great subject, great build!

Robert Podkoński
You've turned this kit into the piece of art, Roland. Chapeau bas!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you very much, mates! This is highly appreciated and motivating feedback! I'm glad to have ventured into an area new to me; the kit, for all its age, has charm and possibilities 🙂 Your words really make me very happy!

Juergen Klinglhuber
Great what you have mangaged with this kit in such a short time - wunderful!

Roland Sachsenhofer
I'm delighted with your praise - danke Jürgen!

Roland Sachsenhofer
.... and Gorby: You're absolutely right! The layout of the loading and coal tender also seems puzzling to me 🙂

gorby
I had a look into this and it turns out the original company who produced this kit got it wrong:
Youtube Video
Sorry Roland. 😉

Bruce Huxtable
Goodness! You wouldn't want to get your fingers (or hair) trapped in the moving parts!!

Nice build, Roland, I'm enjoying the sound-track to the video, whilst admiring your model 🙂

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you very much for sharing this great video! Yes, Bruce, a highly dangerous device, and a highly illustrative demonstration of it too

Neuling
A beautiful build anyway and wonderful photos!

Lex Jassies
Didn't airfix have a similar kit in the 60s under the name Museum Series?

Lex Jassies
tapatalk.com/groups/..tive-1968-t1500.html

Yes, they had 🙂

Robert Podkoński
That's the one I've assembled.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work on an unusual subject.

Torsten
😎. really ❤️️

Matti Thomaes
Nice result, camo looks great. Shame about the rotor, but you could just put it on a concrete airfield display and entitle it 'it was a very hot day'

Villiers de Vos
Very nice paint work. I have tried steam and hot water with various degrees of success and failure.

Mr D
Good going 👍👍
Always plenty on interesting models to build.
There is a YouTube video..... about an old boy who built every RAF plane over 40 year.
Think your catching up 🤣

Rui S
What a beautiful Man cave and display cases. Lucky you 😉

Dave Burgess
Mr D, if I could count all of the Airfix kits between 1960 and 1971 that I built as a child (don't have any of them now; gave them to my cousin when we moved out of town), that would add about another 80 different RAF aircraft to my collection

Villiers de Vos
A very nice space.

Spanjaard
cool idea with the open bookcases!

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Skyhiker
That's a cool idea using a car sponge to hold the model. I think I will have to get one.

John
Regarding the Gnat, use white or pink (really!) as a base coat for yellow and it covers in fewer coats. Tamiya's yellow is probably better than most but it's still a difficult color to work with.

Mr D
Great 👍 thanks for letting me know, l been a bit confused when I've seen people spraying pink 🤔?? Then paint over. Now it makes sense will try it next time. Cheers 😀

Johne 69
Some very nice Modells and a lot of fun 👍

Neuling
Nice collection!

Mr D
Thanks Neuling...👍👍

Villiers de Vos
Thank you for sharing.

Zbynek Honzik
Very nice! 👍

Clement
Great work!

Neuling
I fully agree!

Łukasz Gliński
Lovely!