My supplies and kit. Why yes - that is tube glue! I had not heard of liquid plastic cement until I got into the Marine Corps! LOL Starting this now only because I had a Facebook WWII Group Build get sprung onto me by one of my good buddies!!
I think the most time-consuming part of this build is clean-up of the parts! Getting the flash off the parts plus, for me, knocking down some of the baseball sized rivets to golf ball size! LOL
Boy, sure has been a VERY long time since I used enamels! LOL The smell sure did bring back a lot of memories, including one where my Mom expressed her displeasure of me using the paints in the house!
I made more of a mess & splattering of paint all over than I did actually giving the crew some proper color on their flight gear! It will do - I just need to get the frames on the clear plastic turrets, canopy & lower nose glass masked and done so I can button this sucker up tomorrow.
Between my nerves any more and the steady stream of callers inquiring about my car's extended warranty, I should have known better than to trust myself to hand paint the turret frames on this! But they are done and I will be able to close up the fuselage this by this evening. Will make sure to mask off the Cockpit Canopy & Under Nose Glass.
About an hour's worth of masking & prep for less than 5 minutes of actually painting! Fuselage has already been done. I never would have done this before 25 y/o!! LOL
Recreate the box scale B-24 that I had built for my Dad and given to him. He had been a belly gunner in B-17's & Liberators in the SouthWest Pacific in WWII. At the time, I didn't use liquid glue or acrylics. I need to rustle up some old school enamels to do this baby!
