Dave's Revell 1/48 B24D Liberator

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I've got some work done on this over the past week.Ive assembled the cockpit and painted the resin after market engines.They don't have any push rod tubes moulded on them.So I may get some plastic rod and make some.The colour Ive used for the interior green is too light.But it matches the Eduard pre painted instrument panel.Ive not made up my mind about having the bomb doors open or closed yet.If I have them closed,I won't bother building up the bomb bays.I need to remove some of the wash as there is too much on the interior.image.jpg

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I didn't think there was too much of a wash on the interior Dave. Nice work so far.
 
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I posted some links a while back in the reference section on US interior colours - apparently they varied a bit so that colour is probably just fine. Wash looks good too to me.
 
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What a great find. I'll be watching this one...


I took the lid off the Lancaster box yesterday. Put it back on pretty quick I can tell you. Just not the room for it right now.


Good work so far Dave.
 
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Got some more done tonight.The interior is now all done.I beefed up the bulkhead that the nose wheel attaches to with some bits of sprue as its a bit flimsy.The kit includes some bomb bay detail and a full bomb load.But as Im going for the closed doors option, I haven't bothered adding those parts.I will probably glue the fuselage halves together tomorrow.


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Looking very nice Dave. Looks like the is a fair bit of detail in there..


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I've cut some pieces of lead sheet to size and glued them to the roof of the nose gear bay.Ive put plenty in so the model will not sit on its tail.Then I glued the fuselage halves together.I will leave the forward bomb bay doors off until the model is together.Then I will be able to get some more weight in if necessary.View attachment 105611

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Good work Dave. The interior is looking great. Hopefully you won't have too many issues fitting turrets etc into that closed fuselage.
 
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Good work Dave. The interior is looking great. Hopefully you won't have too many issues fitting turrets etc into that closed fuselage.
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The kit is designed so that the turrets can be fitted in after painting.Not like the old Airfix bombers that you had to cut the bottoms off the turrets if you wanted to fit them at the end.This ones only got a dorsal and tail turret.
 
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I've glued the tailplane parts together this evening.Then I glued the resin engines into the wings and finally the wing halves together.i started to make push rod tubes for the engines.Ive got 0.025 inch plastic rod.But it looked over scale so I didn't bother in the end.i tried a dry fit of the wings and tail to see if I've got enough lead in the nose.And it seems I have.So it should sit nicely on its tricycle undercarriage.image.jpg

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Looking a lot like a Liberator now Dave, some good progress
 
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Coming together nicely Dave. Great looking interior and nice idea beefing up the gear bulkhead with all that lead going in!
 
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I can attest to the poor fit on the airfix kit - the front undercarriage doors were far worse too. Liking the look of this though.


Not sure if you have decals on the inside of the tail fins, but if you do, you might consider putting them on if possible before you put the fins on, mind you the ones I chose had complete rudder decals and that was a real problem after they were in place.
 
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The Airfix 1/72 is a very old kit and typical of kits of that time.Academy do a much better kit with engraved panel lines if you want a decent B24 in that scale
 
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