Post by Lobbie on Nov 23, 2005 1:21:32 GMT -5
G'day,
This Monogram 48 B-17g kit was bourght some 2 years ago as a second hand/partly assembled kit, I was given several sheets of decals for 'STRANGE' schemed birds. Either B-17's, Mossie's, B-24's and a Lancaster, that the RAF flew as early ECM's, Radar Mappers and other odd electronic gadgits.
So this 'twisted' B-17g was remodeled as an ECM flown with the codes BU-G, the chinne turret was removed and the radar housing [from a Tamiya Lancaster] was fitted to the chinne position, the decals are an old Eastern European crowd and silvered when applied to the model.
The silvering was the carrier film being waffer thin and not adhering to the model surfaces, I removed the silvering around the code letters by cutting close to the edge of the code and lifting the film away, I repainted the area in flat black where I had scratched the surfaces.
The remaining film I'll coat with liberal amounts of gloss clear before applying the Dullcoat to them.
The enamels used on this bird are Humbrol numbers 29, 30 and 33. It was built as a 'different' subject matter.
This Monogram 48 B-17g kit was bourght some 2 years ago as a second hand/partly assembled kit, I was given several sheets of decals for 'STRANGE' schemed birds. Either B-17's, Mossie's, B-24's and a Lancaster, that the RAF flew as early ECM's, Radar Mappers and other odd electronic gadgits.
So this 'twisted' B-17g was remodeled as an ECM flown with the codes BU-G, the chinne turret was removed and the radar housing [from a Tamiya Lancaster] was fitted to the chinne position, the decals are an old Eastern European crowd and silvered when applied to the model.
The silvering was the carrier film being waffer thin and not adhering to the model surfaces, I removed the silvering around the code letters by cutting close to the edge of the code and lifting the film away, I repainted the area in flat black where I had scratched the surfaces.
The remaining film I'll coat with liberal amounts of gloss clear before applying the Dullcoat to them.
The enamels used on this bird are Humbrol numbers 29, 30 and 33. It was built as a 'different' subject matter.
