CrankyCrafstman

Looks good I'll have to go see that one

That's correct

WOW! nice nmf finish.

Hey Nige and 1to1 There is a gentleman on Ebay selling replacement turrets Emerson and Consolidated. They are resin bases with vacuum glass parts. He's selling them for around $15.00 US. They look ok they are 1 piece clear domes. They may not be perfect but for $15.00 they maybe good to scratch build into something that maybe just right. Here are some pictures of them. Consolidated Emerson

Could it be that it's covered in canvas?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Bomber Country. Ides of march. It's my wife's birthday too.

Hey Nige I just watched your video on YouTube showing the mods that you did to the undercarriage bays and landing gear. You showed a book that had lots of pictures, can you please post a picture of that book and were to get it please. Ron G

I don't see it either

Ok I'll bit

How does that solve the problem?

Thanks Blr I'll check into it. Ron G

Hey all I've been doing a lot of investigating on the net and I have found out that almost all of the Marine PBJ-1Js didn't show up to very late at the end of the war in 1945. The decals I have for "Devil Dog" are for a tribute bird to the Marines. It's not a plane that served in the war so not sure how correct it is. I don't want to make a post war commemorative bird. I want to do one that actually saw combat. My main problem is I can't seem to find any pictures of the 8 gun nose strafer version of the PBJ-1J used by the Marines. All of the VMB squadrons pictures that I have found seem to either use the glass nose or the G/H version with the cannon. If anyone on here has pictures of a Marine PBJ-1J with the 8 gun strafer nose and or any books that give information on them please let me know. I have the Squadron book on the B-25 but it mostly covers the G/H version. Thanks Ron G

Memories of working...so glad I'm retired, sleep in to 9:00am get up make breakfast eat and put in 3 to 5 hrs at the bench, on a good day. Some days I just do notin.

Hey Nige We need up dates, pictures, pictures, pictures

Hey Nige you could just keep it for the "D" when it comes out.

If you enlarge, or I should say reshape the cowls your going to have to do the same thing to the nacelles which will be alot more difficult, especially the inner one because of the main landing gear goes through it.

Oh my god! All those dots are making me go blind

WOW! How did I miss this. Great work Carl.

Hey Clunky I haven't checked this out yet, but could you use the filler panel from HKs B-25 to fill the hole for the turret? Ron G

Hey Doc That picture in Ernies post is a G or H not a J.

Hey Doc Thanks, I went to there site and that doesn't look like the picture I posted. It's too long, it hangs off the rear of the wing. The one I show, bottom picture, is for a 1/72 scale PBJ-1J. You can see that it ends at the rear edge of the wing like the upper picture. I did need the dimensions thanks. Ron G

More pics, more pics, more pics

Yeah Nige I worked for the BigThree her in the states GM, Ford and Chrysler (FCA). I designed and engineered all of the different types of tools and fixtures that put automobiles together. After the auto industry slowed down her in Detroit I had to find other work so I hit the road and ended up doing turbine design for Rolls Royce in Ohio. I also did a stint at GE in Greenville doing the same turbine design work. The turbines I worked on were massive you could actually crawl inside one of the housings. They were used as power plants for the oil drilling industry to power the pumps that bring oil from offshore oil rigs to shore. They were around 15' (4.572m) tall and 40'-59' long (12.192m-15.24m) and had to be moved by rail. Building a jig and doing it 4 times is the work. I think I can come up with an easier method. Going to give it a try, if it doesn't work I'll go your route.

Wow Nige Thats pretty cool, but it's alot of work I think I'm going to put my 38 years of automotive and aircraft engineering to work and see if I can come up with a easier fix.

Ahhh! The days when I could drink and did to excess. It cost me a liver, but I got a new one so no more drinking.