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Some of you on build.military may remember I was asking for advice on building gun turrets. I finally finished that and many other challenges, and am pleased to reveal the results of my efforts. The Consolidated PB4Y-2 is a Navy patrol bomber based (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build) !
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(...) your tail gunner's sites :-) Amy (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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Very Impressive model. I love to see the models of the USAAF and USNAF. This gives me more incentive to find the time to finish my in-design B-24. Maybe I will since all of my black and red is in the hull of my sub right now. I might look into it, (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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Nice job. Very nice job. I spent a number of years working at a hobby/military history shop and love it when people produce models of lesser known hardware. I love the bomber's station especially. I was wondering, is there any access to it besides (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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Wow great job Bill! I love all of the hatches and the landing gear, The model as a whole is very realistic, great job! I love the way you did the ball turret up front and in the rear, very clever. Great job Bill! Look forward to more creations from (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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(...) Bill, Wow, this is fabulous, a great model considering the tricky curves you have to emulate in Lego. George (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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(...) Thanks! Actually I picked this plane partly because I wouldn't have as many tricky curves. The plane was known as the "flying boxcar" by some. The wings' airfoil shape was probably the hardest curve to get right. --Bill. (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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(...) Thanks! He's a bit unstable, I'll admit... --Bill. (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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(...) I had to buy the canopies on BrickBay. I bought quite a few parts on BrickBay in fact, mainly for the turrets, but also some of the slopes in the tail. It's not at all easy to build a model this big, and it takes up a lot of brick. Just about (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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(...) No. I did preserve the fiction that minifigs could crawl from position to position inside the plane as much as possible - there is a passageway from the bombardier's station to the central part of the fuselage, and from each of the ball (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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(...) Thanks! The main landing gear was probably the hardest part. After much banging of head against wall I realized that it was not working because the wing was too thin. I was working with a wing that was not quite 2 bricks thick, so the base of (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.military)
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