B17

My friend Chris was going through some of his stuff and found these two pencil sharpeners, a Sherman tank and a B17.

Two of the props on the B17 were broken.

So I whipped out the sheet styrene.

And carved up a few new ones.

And glued them on.

My plan is to use this as a 1/72nd scale Luftwaffe training aid.

So I will paint it up and add small decals to it.

And park it on the edge of some Luftwaffe facility.  Airfix Civilian for size.
 

B17 Repair

My friend Tom gave me some B17's that his dad had built.  It was an honor to receive such as gift.  They were quite old and had received some rough treatment.  I have been rehabilitating them.  Here a front upper turret needs new machine gun barrels.

I replaced them with plastic rod and glued them into place, but I used a bit of modelling clay and a toothpick to hold the rods in place while the glue dried.

I also had to use Testors window glue to repair some of the glass in the model.  In some cases I had to replace missing windows.