Monogram/Revell 1/48 B-29

[BobB]

Not show quality but this may entertain some bored people. The kit was an impulse purchase. After spending a long time fiddling with the interior details, I realized that they would be hidden once I joined the fuselage halves so I put my razor to work and cut away some skins.

 

[SaparotRob]

That's really inspired. Nice.

 

[Maty12]

Beautiful job!

 

[rochie]

does look good

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

A nice display. Thanks for sharing.

 

[hal bregg]

They are many ways of having satisfaction of modeling. Cutting fuselage?- why not. I like it.
One thing: why aircraft not painted overall?

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work!

 

[BobB]

They are many ways of having satisfaction of modeling. Cutting fuselage?- why not. I like it.
One thing: why aircraft not painted overall?

A cutaway doesn't need to pretend to be totally authentic and the molded color was reasonably good. I look at some people worrying about tire treads and rivets and think that at true scale, you wouldn't even be able to see those. Although, I suppose if I had made jagged cutaways, I could have said that it was authentic looking flak damage. There's a C-47 photo with a huge section of fuselage missing after being rammed by a Japanese plane so I guess that would be a great cutaway model subject.

 

[tlveik]

Nice! I built one of these for my dad many years ago but never thought of doing a cut-away. Now I'm thinking that another thing I could have done is found an artist to add his nose art.

 

[BobB]

I am challenging someone to build a model of this C-47 with a super detailed interior to view through the hole.

 

[Maxrobot1]

The newer Airfix 1/72 scale C-47 kit has a detailed interior. However, I don't like the kits deep recessed panel lines.