Masters of the air,,,, ,1/32 B17F ' Memphis Belle '

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clonefox80

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@Capt_Tarmac 5 ай бұрын

the best most impressive B17 model I’ve ever seen 😊

@retorenfer8702 5 ай бұрын

The camera angle at Minute 9:00 makes that B-17 look so real! Well done, a truly amazing craftsmanship!

@clonefox80 5 ай бұрын

Kind words,,,thank you

@spruecorner2818 5 ай бұрын

AN AWESOME BUILD WORTH WAITING FOR!....i loved all the interior work, the weathering and the little label on one of the fire extinguishers made me smile.

@derrickrodgers8244 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely breathtaking with the amount of detail. Looks like how she would have looked before restoration when it comes to interior. Why I say that is because during the war, bombers and fighters were brand new. Looks like time has taken a beating on her interior. Still, very high detail...thats mad skills!

@kevincamp189 5 ай бұрын

😅😅

@skyediamonds5654 5 ай бұрын

I join the choir; this model of the B-17 took months to build & to include all the details really shows . My compliments.

@AdrianWoodfield 5 ай бұрын

Outstanding! I don’t think I’ve seen anything that compares to this. Weathering is spot on - lots of it but still understated. If you do happen to have any shots of your techniques I’d be very interested in watching.

@sallyent Ай бұрын

Noice! You must have a very patient and understanding wife 😊

@thomasmccaskill5197 5 ай бұрын

Wow awesome job you should do a video on weathering this beauty

@user-ni2zo5zo3c 2 ай бұрын

David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Tuesday, 9 July, 2024) I personally prefer a less weathered look, except for cases where one might find a vehicle in rather considerable distress, e.g., an old Model T in a barn find, or an airplane crash landing from a war a decade or more past. Even so, you merit great credit for your efforts here, for your presentation is extraordinary! As remarkable as I ever have seen! I now must wonder: had combat aircraft still in operational service actually become as worn and weary looking as you make this one appear? With 1:25th-scale kits of conventional passenger automobiles, I generally prefer factory stock, showroom new, original parts and paint scheme. If it is a work vehicle, however, I likely will incorporate road dust, perhaps mud upon the tyres, each depending upon the conditions I mean to portray in the display. If it is the jalopy of some old timer who has kept his first new car from the late 1940s, yes, rust and dirt here and there. I prefer cars, pickups, etc., in four time periods: round 1912 (e.g., the early Ford Model Ts); the Roaring 20s (e.g., the later Ford Model Ts), the early 1930s (e.g., the Ford Model As), the early 1940s immediately prior to the Second World War; however, the War Department had begun conscripting such automobiles for service in federal and military facilities, Army and Navy bases, Army Air Corps airfields and Navy air stations (stateside and overseas), federal agencies’ offices, government contractor factories, etc. I have experienced considerable difficulty trying to find kits of such automobiles. In the 1941 model year, Ford had begun a comprehensive design and engineering change from its predecessor. This obviously came to a sudden pause of several years, resuming only round 1946. I am far from being an expert on automotive production, though the first model year I recall for Ford is 1948. Next, of course, would be models of World War Two combat aircraft, chiefly in 1:32nd-scale. More on that below. Where the two categories (cars and planes) meet is 1:25th-scale; one can find a dozen or so good 1:24th-scale aeroplane kits (discounting the crude attempts from the 1970s), and some truly compelling in their extraordinary accuracy, and the genuinely exciting potential for super-detailing! Here, a measure of wear, dust and dirt, bits of battle-damage, etc., would be an integral part of the build. In one combination category, I would have an olive drab staff car drive up to a row of fighters (the only true bomber in this scale that I have seen is Airfix’s de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito RAF Fighter Bomber; I cannot determine the mark), and a visiting general engages the pilots (in the case of Grumman’s F6F-5 Hellcat USN Cartier-Based Fighter, the aviators; the setting also would have to clarify how it is they are on land; and the visiting flag officer would be an admiral; or possibly, a Marine) in a discussion germane to his next assignment. Additionally, several years past Hasegawa had made an exquisitely well-designed, highly detailed 1:24th-scale kit of the Willys Overland M-38 U.S. Army ¼-ton 4×4 Light Utility Truck. One could have a handful of those iconic vehicles of the time bearing up to a line of North American P-51D Mustang USAAF Fighters (which the Airfix kit represents) a dozen or so flyboys. In a related sense, I wish I could find some 1:25th-scale kits of Airco’s (de Havilland) DH-4 biplane bomber (it would be just round 21 inches in wingspan) from round 1918, which after the Great War of 1914-1918 the U.S. federal government had acquired from the military several dozen surplus, numerous of which the U.S. Postal Service put into service as mail planes (along with the Boeing Model 40). I would like to include a couple in a Roaring ’20s streetscape diorama in rendezvous with a few Ford Model T trucks; perhaps each aeroplane is bound for a different city. I greatly enjoy dioramas, 1) with mixed road vehicles, incorporating them into settings of homes, shops, commercial buildings, etc., in various municipal, residential, and pastoral settings; 2) aircraft; two general kinds: 2a) an airfield tableau with figurines portrayed servicing an engine, loading ammunition into the wing bays, replenishing the fuel tanks, etc.; 2b) a forced perspective aerial display in which replicas in different scales suggest vestal models of the same aircraft receding from the viewer, dramatising them in flight. Next would be models of World War Two combat aircraft, starting with those in 1:32nd-scale (as I stated above). I would delight in several kits of 1) Hong Kong Models’s Boeing B-17E/F Flying Fortress USAAF Heavy Bomber, assembling at least one as an -E, possibly in the Pacific Theatre of Operation (PTO), and another as an -F, as the “Memphis Bell” early in the European Theatre of Operation (ETO), and the B-17G early production and late-war with the Cheyenne tail. 2) Hobby Boss’s kits of the Consolidated B-24 series Liberator USAAF Heavy Bomber; I also would convert one B-24D to a Convair PBY-1 Liberator USN Convoy Patrol Bomber, and another to a C-87 Liberator Express USAAF High-Altitude Transport, a heavy cargo plane capable of crossing the Himalayan Mountains (“the Hump”) for the China-Burma-India Theatre of Operation (CBI). 3) The Hong Kong Models kits of North American Aviation’s B-25 Mitchell USAAF Medium Bomber; I would like to present one as a PBJ USN/USMC Anti-Shipping Bomber. 4) Several of Tamiya’s kits of the Chance Vought F4U Corsair USN/USMC Fighter, to make the different early variants (F4U-1, -1A, -1C, -1D, and -2), as well as 4a) the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm iterations in the ETO. 5) Similarly, several of Tamiya’s de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito RAF Light Bomber, Fighter-Bomber, Photo-Reconnaissance Aircraft, to make the different versions thereof. 6) Tamiya’s Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX RAF Fighter; I would like to find similar kits of the Mk I and Mk V, as well. Some praise this model kit as the finest one ever made! In 1:24-scale aircraft kits, Airfix has made relatively new, good quality models of 1) the de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito RAF Light Bomber, several of which I would like to reproduce as its main variants; 2) Supermarine’s Spitfire Mk IX RAF Fighter (I also would like to find similar kits of the Mk I and Mk V), and 3) the Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat USN Carrier-Based Fighter. I would like to find several kits of North American Aviation’s P-1D/H/K Mustang USAAF Fighter (amongst dozens of others, to be honest!). Airfix round a half century past had made a P-51D kit, though the state of the art in mold-manufacturing was nothing like it has been over the past decade or so. Trumpeter has made a fair number of 1:24-scale aircraft kits, though their quality of detail, accuracy of design, etc., have been rather uneven. Their Junkers Ju-87 Stuka Dive Bomber is appreciably larger than that of Airfix, making it well out of proportion. Incidentally, the word “Stuka” is a German abbreviation for Sturzkampfflugzeug (dive bomber). Actually, that is a metaphorical translation. The word “Flugzeug” (in German, one capitalises all nouns: e.g., potato is “die Kartoffel”-including the correct gender-specific definite article; apple is “die Apfel”; tree is “der Baum”) is German for airplane. “Kampf” is German for struggle. “Sturz” means lintel, though for the life of me, I cannot grasp how one can say “lintel struggle airplane” equates in any sense to “dive bomber”.

@Mark-uh7cr 5 ай бұрын

I can only dream of being that detailed and that good...

@リル猫ヤッホイ 4 ай бұрын

素晴らしい🎉自分も良く外に投げっぱなしにしますよ模型😊日にちは掛かりますが良い感じになります🎉だけど素晴らしい動画有り難うございました🙇

@richardunger2177 5 ай бұрын

Wonderful...amazing

@geralddecelles77 5 ай бұрын

That model must be huge, only adding to the complexity. Fantastic work!

@kevinlong8076 5 ай бұрын

Your paint work is incredible, thanks for the video

@clonefox80 5 ай бұрын

Thank you,,,,I love to paint

@markc7002 5 ай бұрын

Your weathering skills are Exceptional!! Best chipping effects I've seen to-date as well!

@stevethefishdotnet 4 ай бұрын

Stellar build!

@Tecomunicaste 5 ай бұрын

muy buenos los detalles de interiores y de pintura exterior.... a volar.!!!

@jeffcalabrese3134 5 ай бұрын

Great job!!! Those engines look real!

@arbitScaleModels 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely beautiful I love the weathering.

@clonefox80 5 ай бұрын

Thank you,,🤝🙏

@seanerk5kt9 5 ай бұрын

Outstanding work! That’s a super huge model isn’t it.

@clonefox80 5 ай бұрын

Suppose I need the 'Boader' Lancaster now,,

@mcburner3615 5 ай бұрын

breathtaking! great talent!

@clonefox80 5 ай бұрын

Very kind,,🙏

@asdf9890 5 ай бұрын

Amazing detail...Working on a 1/72 fiddly, Academy kit at the moment. Working up to that 1/32 level!

@daniel-m 5 ай бұрын

Magnifique travail. Bravo !

@gusmcdougall7667 5 ай бұрын

Incredible job.

@richardbailey3343 5 ай бұрын

Very nice wirk and post. Regards😊

@Ale-tl1dl 5 ай бұрын

Superlative!!! 👍

@TheFunkhouser 4 ай бұрын

Looks real thing

@muchasgracias6976 5 ай бұрын

Noice! I like it!

@HarryCowl 5 ай бұрын

Very nice model and well detailed ! But don't you think the paint has been weathered too much inside the cockpit ?

@clonefox80 5 ай бұрын

Possibly

@fw1421 5 ай бұрын

Nice build. But to be honest I’m a tad disappointed in how soft some of the detail is in places,especially in the price point of the kit. The Belle is a great choice to build. You should visit the Museum of the United States Air Force and see the real one all restored.