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    I can't even imagine what it would cost to send it to you... I'll see if I can check it at work - I work in shipping.👍
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    Friends, Have decided to part with this find from my closet. This is the venerable Monogram B-17G kit, number 5600, with lots of goodies to spruce up the inside and out. Nothing started and best as I can tell all of the sets are complete - they have been sitting in this box for who knows how many years! If you want to see inside the AM boxes, let me know and I'll post more pictures. Best as I can tell, all the bits and the kit add up (on EBay anyway) to about $250-$275 plus shipping. The Teknics Battle Damage and the Verlinden update together go for over $100 on Ebay. Crazy. Looking to let everything go for $125 plus shipping. I can't see myself getting into this kit, with this much AM. Maybe if it was a late-production G with the staggered waist positions then I could do my late-friend's B-17G. But nope! Any takers?
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    Folks, I'm going to move this over to the "For Sale or Trade" section. I don't think I have it in me to do justice to all of the pieces here. Would be nice! But I just don't have the time. Maybe one of you will!
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    Too much I wonder! I think I would have to open up one side.
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    I might have to give that a go Mike! How are things with you these days?
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    I know!!! Put a P-51 next to it!
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    Here are some shots I took on my dining room table. This thing is BIG... It will be hung from a ceiling showing off the open bomb bay and the 27 bombs! First getting the pre-shading done, piece by piece. I actually don't have room on my workbench to assemble the plane, forget in my spray booth! This will be interesting... Had not pre-shaded the tail fin when I took these...
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    Sorry, gents. I am seriously behind on posting this build. Here is the latest. Closed up the fuselage. Big seams between the sections and again, not having really decent connection points between the halves was difficult. I'm thinking a better strategy is to put each side together first, then join the two sides together. I had to use the Pano mode on my phone to capture the entire fuselage, but now none of those photos, even at 1.8Mb, will upload. So here is a view of the underside of the left wing with its dark gray color and the black pre-shading. You get a glimpse of the fuselage and the join line just to the right of the fuel tank on the wing. The nose to main-body join was better. Here are the elevators. On the left is the underside of the left elevator, and the right is the top-side green camo color with the black pre-shading showing through. Once I get the fuselage painted, I'll match up the coloring. These are MRP paints, which just go down so nicely. The pre-shading is Vallejo Black primer. I decided to add the Italeri Hound Dog missile pylons to this build, but the profile was not a good fit. Did some work with the sanding sticks and got them pretty close but the front of the pylon was off the wings. A bit of Vallejo white acrylic putty hopefully will fill the join. Letting it cure for a few days (unnecessary probably but why not) before I paint it the color of the pylons. The white tac arrived today so am looking at using that to mask the camo, or else buy a LOT of tape... Might go the tape route... Thanks for looking! Chris
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    Nice work, John! Love the tail!
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    Pretty!
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    Was able to spend a bit of time at the bench, but not as much as I had thought, over the holidays. Started painted the engine nacelles, which basically are one color of each on each side. The intakes are camo on top, bare metal under. Will be masking the back part of the engine for a gunmetal panel. The Bulldog pylons still need to be adjusted to fit the wing profile. Getting out the Dremel tool for that one. The canopy glass had some fit challenges. The main windscreen fit PERFECTLY! As did the triangular windows. After a bit of sanding. Fits flush. The rectangular pieces needed to be sanded down on one end and underneath, but they then fit pretty well. The triangular pieces still have the clear canopy glue drying. Applied the Eduard masks which fit well. The framing in the windscreen is proud so easy to mask.
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    What did you use for the undercoat? It is shiny!!
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    John, I am very surprised at the fit problems you are having with the Revell kit. Like you, I've built several of each - Tamiya and Revell - and never ran into the fit problems you are having. Yes, Tamiya fits perfectly, but what you are seeing with the wing root gap is a huge surprise to me. But agree that the Revell wing is a better representation of the actual Mustang puttied wing. Not sure why Tamiya didn't pick up on that. I remember trying to fill in the wing with Mr. Surfacer and went mad with all of the coats needed to fill in the wing. I do seem to remember that neither Revell or Tamiya captured the oil canning of the flaps. I used AMUR's resin flaps - beautiful things! Your grafting of the Tamiya tail looks perfect. Nice work John!
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    Cool, thanks, Fran! I may have to splurge...
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    Not sure what to do with all of this. I was about to put the plane up for sale but then I opened the top and found ALL THESE GOODIES!!!. Trying to figure out if they will fit any other 1/48 B-17 kit... I have built at least half a dozen of the Monogram B-17s, including the ProModeler kit with the interior. But this takes the cake... And the goodies!! I was shocked to open the box and find all of these add-ons. I didn't know this stuff even existed, but I must have at some point as I did buy them!
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    US, Virginia. I bought this a while ago but settled on a different system. This one is complete, but without the various adapters (No clue where they went off to...). Does have the moisture trap attached. Here is one reference on EvilBay... And on Amazon...
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    I'm clearing out my closets and have finally hit the hobby closet. NOT a lot of good stuff here, but if you are interested, happy to ship to you. Warning - shipping to Canada has proven to be a problem (sorry Martin!!). This kit is still in the original wrapping - un-opened! Opened but also has a resin cockpit of unknown origin... I haven't opened these kits in YEARS!! The Fokker Kit is unopened! I've never seen this kit before. It is interesting. Bond Gyrocopter is spoken for!
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    Hubert. Thoughts are with you, your family and your son. 😢 Hugs, my friend.
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    John, Beautiful job grafting the Tamiya tail onto the Revell kit! I've built both and actually prefer the Revell kit especially for the cockpit detail. Merry Christmas! Chris
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    Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season. You all are terrific!
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    Carl, That is pretty much what I am thinking, too. Maybe even modify the camo scheme so that the fuselage join line is one color on each side. I still have a fair bit of body and seam work, but I want to get started painting the engines and wings. That's a whole 'nother project onto themselves...
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    Ernie, SOOO good to have you back! This has not been a great year, but how much can one person take? I feel for you and Joy. Glad to see you with us again. We missed you! Chris
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    I'm not sure how I am going to paint the beast!!!
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    Dry fitting all the main pieces together to see what I am up against. Size for one thing!! I think there is more styrene in the tail pieces than in most 1/72 aircraft kits. The fits don't seem horrible (he says now...) but we will see when it comes time to really put it together. First up is painting the engines and pylons which get camo colors, then painting the underside of the wings and fuselage, then the topside camo. Mostly decided how to attach the Hound Dog missile and pylon which will take a bit of work using the Dremel tool to get the pylon to meet up with the underside of the wing. Still figuring out what to do with the clear pieces...
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    Just some building notes before getting back to actual building. While this kit has some challenges, in a way it is like building an old kit - you have to kind of know what you are doing to make it work. There is some guess work to how things fit together (the best way, versus just fitting) and lots of opportunity for additional detailing - which, like in all bombers, nearly none of it will be visible once the fuselage is closed up. A real shame since the MC kit accurately shows the multi-level cockpit and so much could be done with the electronics - ditto the instrumentation - lots of space to take up. The lack of clarity in the clear pieces is a disappointment but will have to see if polishing helps with that at all. The fuselage is in four pieces, which makes for a much smaller box than the Italeri kit, but also now have three places where a tight fit will be needed to make the plane look right. Speaking of the fuselage - the lack of pins to properly align the halves is a big challenge. I'm literally going inch by inch with the Extra Thin trying to keep the two halves aligned. Thinking back, I probably could/should have put in some long sprue pieces under the joins to help align the fuselage pieces. Why didn't I think of that sooner? The alignment issue I hope does not come back to bite me when I get the engines attached. They COULD have put another pin at the back of the pylon to positive align the engines correctly. We will see!!
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