Traded for this beauty (?) a few weeks ago, and thought I'd dive right into the nightmare. Seems it's the only 1/48 scale PB4Y-2 out there, so...
It took a few hours to trim the vacu-formed part with a scribing hook and a #11 blade, but only half an hour to cut up the Revell B-24D donor fuselage. I must admit that act felt a little strange. I've never attempted a vac before, so this should be interesting, or a total disaster!

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You are one brave man. Keep up the work.

The butchery continues.

I've cut out the bays in the wings for the nacelles-two cuts each wing half. The inboard lower was the toughest and had to be attacked from three angles.

Beginning to fit the components to the port wing.

This is not going to be an easy build by any stretch of the imagination. Test fitting, until I get the hang of it with the flimsy vac parts, is iffy at best. Need to keep up the momentum or this may become a real albatross. I only quit when I get to feeling a bit ham handed and when I need to toddle off to work. Patience...

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I'll be following this one, Bryan. You're a braver man than I am, but it looks like you've gotten a good start. Have a paint scheme picked out yet?

Yes, Craig, it is. But I have lucky feet. Photo from a couple of years ago

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Damn...that looks like it was driven in there pretty far for simple gravity - either that or you've got soft sandals. 🙁

Hi Bryan,

Very interesting work. A geat project and a great luke...

Best regards, Eric

Bryan, meant to ask, are the vac fuselage parts reinforced? I don't remember seeing one of Mr. Kosters complete kits, so I can't gauge the thickness of the plastic. Whatever you're doing, it looks to be working well. Yours is the second of these I've seen, the previous was at a regional, some years back. It was equally well done. The accompanying card mentioned it was quite a project. I thought that a masterpiece of understatement.