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Offline ed s

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High Altitude Photo Recon
« on: August 03, 2016, 11:46:43 AM »
I have an old Crown 1/144 B-24. It has been started by the previous owner, but I think that I will be doing enough surgery on it that it will be acceptable for the GB. It is going to become a 1/72 high altitude photo recon jet.

Here is what I am starting with.

 

I have removed the engines from the wings.  Here it is lined up with the new center wing sections. Just for the record, the inner wing sections came from an OV-10 that was cut up a few years ago for a different group build.



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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2016, 12:17:25 PM »
As a (naive) pacifist, I love this project of transforming a bomber killer into a recon plane... ;)

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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2016, 12:39:20 PM »
Looks to be kind of build wish I thought of !

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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2016, 05:07:38 PM »
Acceptable, go on  :D
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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2016, 09:30:26 PM »
Great Idea!!  :)
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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2016, 07:22:55 AM »
I'm seeing something that appears to be a bit of U-2 lineage there...

What an inspired concept! Such imaginative thinking is bound to result in an amazing model!

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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2016, 07:22:40 AM »
Just a quick update. Latest "honey do" project is taking a lot of time.

Here's the latest. I've found time to get some epoxy putty in place to fill some voids and reshape the nose and tail.  You can also see the jet engines which are converted 1/48 rocket pods.




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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2016, 08:26:10 AM »
That's one fantastic update, ed!

Rocket pods means this baby will be wicked fast!

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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2016, 06:52:42 PM »
Looking forward to see this mysterious plane finished. . 
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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2016, 09:53:32 AM »
Holy putty Batman!  :o
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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2016, 10:06:26 PM »
Jet engines looks very good. I think I'll borrow this idea someday :)
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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2016, 10:34:51 AM »
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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2016, 12:18:00 PM »
great inspiration there

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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2016, 01:20:20 PM »
see the jet engines which are converted 1/48 rocket pods.
Will they be extra-engines (Neptune or B-36 like) or will they replace the piston engines? ;)

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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2016, 08:23:17 AM »
see the jet engines which are converted 1/48 rocket pods.
Will they be extra-engines (Neptune or B-36 like) or will they replace the piston engines? ;)

The piston engines have been removed. Note the globs of putty on the wings. This jet powered only

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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2016, 11:25:54 AM »
Today's update. I've glued on the wings. They are fixed in place with short brass rods that fit through the fuselage and into each wing root. The engines and tail surfaces are pinned in place with pieces of straight pins (sewing pins) but they haven't been glued on yet. I still have some PSR to complete first. This does give you an idea of the final configuration.





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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2016, 12:23:26 PM »
This is starting to look quite promising Ed.  I was having a problem trying to imagine how this was going to look and now that I see what you have done with that B-24 fuselage and wings it all makes much more sense now.  :)
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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2016, 05:08:58 PM »
Wonderful! :-*

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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2016, 11:19:14 PM »
That's a ripping great update, ed!

I especially like the placement of those engines. That's a configuration which is all to rare.

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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #19 on: August 26, 2016, 03:14:55 AM »
Loving the look of this one.
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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #20 on: August 30, 2016, 08:43:14 AM »
Sprayed a coat of primer (MR Surfacer 1000) last night.  Looks pretty good. I have a few surface imperfections to clean up.



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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #21 on: August 30, 2016, 08:53:54 AM »
I love it! The tail is great and it just has a  wonderful retro-future feel :-*
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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #22 on: August 30, 2016, 12:57:35 PM »
Wow! Whether intentionally or not, you've actually ended up with something plausible! It looks like a long wingspan, V-tail recon variant of the Short Sperrin! You could even come up with a story about how the wing sucked for high speed flight and maybe the Canberra didn't have range they were looking for, so Short was given a contract for a Sperrin PR variant as a consolation prize for not making it as a V-bomber.



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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #23 on: August 30, 2016, 06:26:14 PM »
Looks pretty good.
even VERY good (this is the most beautiful B-24 that I have ever seen...) :-*

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Re: High Altitude Photo Recon
« Reply #24 on: August 30, 2016, 08:54:04 PM »
 Mighty nifty! Everything flows together very nicely