Hasegawa 72 scale B-17F Update August 20, 2014

I have been waiting on some after market things to move this one along.
I needed the grey fuselage letter decals, as opposed to the yellow ones that come with the kit.
They came today (from eBay).

In my research, I am not sure that the white triangles, the ship letter on the tail, etc, were ever used with Yellow fuselage letters. They may have for a day or two or ten, but with all the decals I wanted, I need to have grey letters to represent "Hells Angels" in late 1943.

Hells Angels was a ship from 303rd Bomb Group. They were one of the first 6 or 7 bomb groups to fly missions out of England with the 8th Air Force, starting in late 1942.

It was Hell Angels the airplane, that was first to complete 25 missions in Europe, with different crews I believe. "Memphis Belle" finished her 25th mission six days later (with the same crew for all 25, I believe).
Memphis Belle got the glory and went home out of it.

Hells Angels stayed on and completed 48 missions before being retired and sent home in January 1944 to become a training ship. She was scrapped in 1946.

Memphis Belle sat proudly in Memphis from 1946 til 2005, when the US Air Force Museum took it and is currently restoring it, to be put on display in 2018 at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton Ohio.

I have most of it finished, just need to place the guns and glass.

I will put a coat of future over that, do some weathering.. I have streaks and wash/filter/fading in mind for this, more than I usually do on aircraft.

I will then seal it all with a Dullcote.

Progress so far. It is still shiny, won't be when it is done.

Hawker Typhoon 1B Finished!!!!

I finally finished something this year..

This is the Revell Typhoon. I wanted a quick build to get something done, however it took several months, No such thing as a quick build for me, I always take it too far, try to fix too many things, and try to make a simple kit perfect. However, I have the sense of accomplishment that I was looking for :)

This is out of the box, using my standard techniques,

Build
Prime with enamel
Base coat and Camo with Tamiya XF colorx (XF81/XF82/XF83 in this case)
Good coat of Pledge Floorcare Multi Surface Finish (formerly known as Future)
Decals (w/Micro set and Micro Sol - in that order)
Another coat of "Future"
Washes for recessed panel lines and edges
Dullcote
Pictures

Finished product....

Typhoon 1B
198 Sdn - June 1944
Just realized I never got a shot of the invasion strips on the bottom!