Amerika Bomber WIP

[Army of One]

Looking good......

[dumaniac]

i like the cockpit

[tc2324]

Cheers chaps. 

Time to start putting this thing together.

First pic shows the use of my old friend `Spare Sprue` in helping me give the fuselage halves something to hang onto. The second shot is a general shot of the main fuselage parts loosely put together to show size and concept. As expected, it`s a tad large....!    (Kit..., I hope your taking notes...?) 

[PR19_Kit]

  (Kit..., I hope your taking notes...?) 

Of course, we're watching a master at work here. 

[Army of One]

That looks pretty awesome......!!!

[dumaniac]

'tad' is good

[NARSES2]

It looks right, that's for sure

[tc2324]

So here`s where I start to `deviate` from what some of you may have been imagining this will turn out like. I started work on the u/c bays which as you can see would have been the bomb bay. Thats right, I`m giving this the B-47 treatment with out riggers placed under the inner pair of props. This means that the design will have space for more, and bigger fuel tanks, that can be placed the fuselage and wings with the weapon load hanging from a pylon on the wings.

Obviously I don`t want to do easy....... 

One slight hiccup you can make out in the following picture is the slight gap between the front bomb bay section and the rest of the fuselage. Obviously theres a slight `kink` but it`s not really noticeable and the gap can be filled in easily enough.

[jorel62]

looking real good

[tc2324]

Scratchbuilt u/c now pretty much complete, concept layout looks like this.

[Army of One]

Liking it so far......

[dumaniac]

Maaaaaaate - I am loving this

where did you get the undercart ?

looking great

[Dizzyfugu]

This looks epic - love it. The undercarriage idea is great, too, more suitable than a standard tail-sitter. 

[tc2324]

Cheers guys.   

where did you get the undercart ?

The undercart is all made from parts of both He 177 kit/s. Either modified, cut or glued at funny angles. Haven`t used anything else from the spares box. The main wheels are from the kit sitting in the kit`s `modified` bomb bay, while the front wheel is actually the rear `tail sitter` wheel, just extended a bit sitting in it`s wheel bay reversed. 

[dumaniac]

tc2324

thanks for the heads up on the undercart - great thinking - you are inspiring me to do something similar