1:144 B-17 and P-47 side by side

Scissors & Planes 100

🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

Call this done! Now I shall resume my F-4J build 😇

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 31 - Propellers assembled

What remain are 11 machine guns ...

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 30 - Preparing the propeller blades

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 29 - Turrets are installed, still missing the machine guns.

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 28 - Machine gun turrets

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 27 - Landing gear installed

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 26 - Landing gear ready to install

Not quite sure about the parts of tail wheel though ...

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 25 - Preparing the landing gears

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 24 - Engines installed

Propellers need to wait a bit, until landing gears are ready.

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 23 - Installed two engines on the left.

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 22 - Installed the spindles and made them movable.

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 21 - The propellers spindles.

I'd like to make them movable, let's see if it can be done.

🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 20 - The engines are assembled individually

🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 19 - Get the engine parts ready

🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 18 - Attached all the cylinders

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 17 - The engine, one down and 3 more to go

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 16 - Start working on the engines

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 15 - All wings are assembled

Looks like a flying fortress now

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 14 - Vertical stabilizer assembled

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 13 - Preparation before gluing the stabilizer

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 12 - Preparing the vertical stabilizer

Added a support frame, hope it can make the glue step easier.

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Created a tweets collection for my on-going B-17 E project.

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🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 11 - Main wings installed

🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 10 - Preparing the main wings

🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 9 - Cut out the parts of wings

🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 8 - Fuselage is done

🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 (Scissors & Planes 100)

📅 Day 7 - Glued the cockpit

🛩️ B-17E Flying Fortress 1:144 - Scissors & Planes 100

📅 Day 6 - No assembling work today, just cutout, retouching and shaping.

🛩️ B-17E 1:144 - Scissors & Planes 100 (scale to 1:144)

📅 Day 5 - Continue working on fuselage parts

🛩️ B-17E 1:144 - Scissors & Planes 100 (scale to 1:144)

📅 Day 4 - Center fuselage parts are connected

🛩️ B-17E 1:144 - Scissors & Planes 100 (scale to 1:144)

📅 Day 3 - Center fuselage with the support frame for the wings.

🛩️ B-17 E 1:144 - Scissors & Planes 100 (scale to 1:144)

📅 Day 2 - The nose

🛩️ B-17 E 1:144 - Scissors & Planes 100 (scale to 1:144)

📅 Day 1 Preparing the fuselage

🛩️ B-17 E 1:144 - Scissors & Planes 100(scale to 1:144)

Not in the mood of resuming the F-4J build, so I pick up another SNP model. Also printed the drawing for reference.