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Here are the 3D printed parts provided by Redhood. -
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Here is an aerial shot of the XB-38 in flight. -
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Complete except for the decals. They are ordered from Callie-Graphics. -
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Another shot of her awaiting decals. -
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Test fit of the parts on B-17 "Spare Parts". -
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Side by side comparison. -
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She would have looked smoother had I used a new B-17 for the build. However, I decided that B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" would be the airframe for conversion. I have limited storage space and did not want to add a 6th B-17 to the hangar. -
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Here are the components after some sanding and a primer coat.
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The relocated rudder and elevator servos will live here. -
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The now empty bomb bay. I installed a floor made of sheet styrene. -
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Top view of the fuselage bottom. The servos were moved aft to the new compartment created for them. I checked for tail weights but none were installed. If found, I would have taken them out as they would not be needed with the new servo position. -
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The bomb release device I made to retain the bombs when the bomb bay doors were open. Again I used sheet styrene and some thin plywood for this part. -
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Side view of the bombs and release mechanism. -
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More progress on the bomb release. I used styrene rectangular tubing for the arms. I re-shaped the servo arm to accept the longer pieces. Hot glue worked well on this portion. -
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Another view of the holding device. -
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View of the bottom of the fuselage.
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OD green paint was color matched from HobbyKing's B-17 V2. Grey color was matched from Flightline's B-24 Liberator. -
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Decals are from Callie-Graphics, of course! -
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I did add the 3mm shim in the rear of the horizontal stabilizer. -
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The crew are the pilot and co-pilot from Flightline's B-24.
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Here is a picture of the Duchess flying with her bomb bay open. -
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Here she is prior to her maiden. -
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Here she is during the process of re-routing the servo wires. -
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Another view of the wire re-routing. -
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Of course, I had to add my tail wheel retract mod on this bomber as well. -
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Here is the Duchess with a primer coat on her undersides. -
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Outside and ready for the airbrush action. -
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Not much to look at at this point.
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The new B-25B Ruptured Duck. She still needs a couple of aft fuselage windows and the yellow removed from her props. -
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With her sister ships. -
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All of the B-25s have my new modified nose gear with Karltrek's oleo mod. Much more reliable and makes for great ground handling. -
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The current 4 B-25s of the medium bomb group.
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Here she is sitting next to the Lancaster on the north side of the hangar. -
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Side view. I will need to add the olive drab paint to the uppers soon. -
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Another view of the north side. Now that the blazing summer sun is mostly gone, I uncovered the roof windows. It is a very bright and open place to build the planes - sure beats the small garage!
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Here is the stock set-up. -
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I have traced the outline of the bf109 retract unit onto the fuselage bottom. -
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Here is the initial cutting of foam. The black plastic piece will need to be removed. -
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Another view of the foam removed. -
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Black tail wheel pivot plastic removed. I removed it intact for possible re-use in a different aircraft. -
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Side view of installed bf109 tail wheel unit. -
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Top view of installed bf109 tail wheel unit.
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Fuselage with large panel lines filled in flush. -
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Mid - fuselage panel lines have been filled. -
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Port engine nacelles at step 1 in the filling in of the panel lines. -
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Starboard engine nacelles at step 1 in the filling in of the panel lines. -
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Vertical stabilizer with panel lines filled in. The rudder will have the curve trimmed straight - as some of you have mentioned in the thread. -
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Horizontal stabilizer is ready for final check then paint.
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Lined up alongside my melon patch. The red and blue flags show location of the melons growing there. -
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Poontang has the largest landing gear of all 3. I modified it to accept 3" mains and a 2" nose wheel. -
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My Ruptured Duck. Plane #7 of the 1942 Doolittle Raid over Japan. -
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Poontang and watermelon!!! Does it get any better than this! -
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My version of the MTO B-25 Poontang. The actual Poontang was a B-25C and not the "J" that I have here. I got a bit lazy in my old age! -
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The B-25J gunship of the Fighting Falcons, stationed in the Philippines during WWII. -
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