Tag: Boeing
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Boeing KB-29A – Part Nine – Flying Gas Station
I must apologise to the readers for not being able to show the standard five views of a new aircraft in this report. The KB-29A in 1:72 scale is just too big for my standard photo table to accommodate in 3:2 or 16:9. I’ve had to resort to a 16mm lens and 1:1 format to…
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Boeing KB29A – Part Six – A Bigger Jig
The value of the Little Workshop adjustable jig is proving itself daily. It comes in handy for all builds to steady aircraft in either normal or inverted mode and to allow me to rest planes on the trailing edge of the wings to apply propellers. If I turn the fuselages sideways I can do side…
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Boeing KB29A – Part Five – The Sausage
The sausage is just about to close up. The day has been spent in fettling the compartments into the fuselage and securing them with cement and PVA. The former is to get the initial location and the latter to make sure that this is maintained when the second half goes on. My aim is not…
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Boeing KB29A – Part Four – Interesting Times
And we’re livin’ in them alright. I hope we keep on livin’ The KB29A was my Mens Shed model club project and I vowed to only do it when I was at the clubrooms. The bastard Wuhan Plague put a stop to that. But I decided to keep my vow…virtually – I would model in…
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Boeing KB29A – Part Three – The Guts
The Academy kit for this KB-29A has just the right mixture of detail and space for a good 1:72 build. Any less would be sketchy and any more superfluous. The cockpit, fighting compartment, and tail gunner’s position have been mostly completed in one modelling week – spread out over two club mornings. I’ve decided to…
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Boeing B-29A – Part One – The New Kit On The Block
Or the shelf, as it happened. I made a safari through the 1:72 jungle at my local hobby shop and this Academy B-29 was lurking at the bottom of the new pile. I am wise enough to know when a model will be popular and not hang round – so I grabbed it with glee…
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Boeing B17 – Part Five- The Fat Lady From Wenatchee
Well, it has been a week. The Fat Lady From Wenatchee is finished and I am delighted – so much so that I will now deliberately seek out other aircraft that can be made into civilian service aircraft. There were severe forest fires in Washington State and British Columbia in the 1970’s and a number…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Three – Washing Day
I’m gonna hang out the washing on the Mildenhall Line…and so on. Dad’s Air Force musters again. Today is washing day for the two new kits – the Grumman TBF-1 and the Boeing Fortress Mk III. I have beautiful weather for it – bone dry and a very modest 27º C temperature in the shed.…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Two – The Box Open
Regular day today. April Fools torment over for another year. Here’s the contents of the new Airfix kit: Fuselage halves with a big space in the nose for variations in framing and windows. Propellers, superchargers, and what looks suspiciously like a steam dome for a locomotive. Internal framing bits and machine guns. Detailed engines and…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part One – Happy Birthday, You Old Kid…
Okay. Put on your retro panties and pull them up. Now wander back to your childhood and the time you were given birthday money and were let off for the Saturday to visit every hobby shop in town. a. DId you visit every shop in town? Yes you did. b. Were you tired out? No, you weren’t.…
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