Big Friend,...Little Friend
One of the fun things of belonging to a club is the “Club Projects” that pop up throughout the year. So it was that one of my clubs (We are blessed here in Florida with many such clubs) decided it would be fun to give everyone a 2x2x2 inch wood block and a 3 month deadline to come up with something on the block.
Well I used this opportunity to build my MENG KIDS kit of the B-17G Flying Fortress. Later, I decided to add the 1:44th scale Hasegawa P-51D Old Crow to illustrate the Big Friend, Little Friend concept where our allied fighters would fly escort to any crippled aircraft they ran across.
Both kits were fun to build going together without any issues. Decals for both kits were excellent and easy to apply. The only thing I added were the prop discs, made from acetate covers from greeting card boxes, and the smoke made from cotton from the medicine cabinet.
These kind of projects are a lot of fun and afford a nice break from the more serious subjects
If I'm not mistaken, that B-17 is "Nine-O-Nine" (the current livery of the Collings Foundation bird). Great little showpiece, Jack...nice job.
The mighty egg ?
Looks great !
It really isn't an egg model...more of a caricature Bernd.
But it goes in that direction, my better half loves it too 🙂
Looks like a nice fun build,
A down home build.
Cool!
Looks like you had a lot of fun building that, Jack.
I did George.
Ditto the above comment, modeling is suppose to be fun. What did you use for the smoke? Cotton balls?
I used some cotton from a roll I use for packing. I used a couple of pieces of fine brass wire that I sprayed with contact cement so the cotton would stick to it and then airbrushed the gray color.
Looks like a fun build Jack, and that is what it is about .
It was fun. This is the kind of project that comes from belonging to a fun club.
Totally cool! Thanks for sharing!
Nice