B-17 Bomber - B-17 Bomber

[lego]

Yeah - it is finished!!!!

Isn't it beautifull?



The B-17G will follow soon....

[adi]

WOW
very good job lego!

[may11]

Nice Work lego!
where can I get it?

[lego]

Just click on the last image! The hole image is the link to my fms-page, you can't miss it...

The other thing you can try is clicking on the link in my signature (see below)...

[may11]

Thanks lego!

[trvo]

Lego,

There's only one word to describe your modelling - Fantastic

Keep up the good work Lego!!!!

Trvo

[mikethewanderer]

Lego,

Your skill is truly impressive!

Have now downloaded a lot of your racers and am heading there now to get the B17.

I can only hope that I might be so good one day!

Planet Mike

[lego]

Thanks a lot!

It's not really difficult, you only need very good picture material and a lot of time for all the details...

And by the way: do not think the B-17 is realistic scale!
I isn't! Because, I never took a drawing into Metasequoia. I just took my books and compared every single piece of my model on the screen with the pictures and 2D sketches in the books.

For example the very characteristic fuselage: I just took a ball (U=24, V=24) and rotated it with the poles to the front and rear. Then i streched the front half of it and the rear half seperately, then finally moving the "ring"-polygons fore- and backwards, into the right position - scaling them individualy did the rest.
Then I created a box, and sliced it 3 times in X- and Y-direction with the knife-tool (or U=3, V=3). Then I simply dragged the poins as long into position until I got the chracteristic cockpit on top of the main fuselage.
And so on....
The basic shape is the most easy part. The details, like the glass-nose inner is then just a lot of filligrane work, but it is not really difficult. In most cases the interior parts are just bricks adjusted a bit in size and shape to fit inside the fuselage or bottom turret. Painting them dark gives you all the impression that "there is something in there"...
But believe me: there are only some stupid bricks in there...

I have still in mind to make a tutorial "How to model a B-17F for FMS"...
But that will take some more time as the modelling itself...

[WingedBird222]

Lego... ThANK ALOT.... i cant tell you how much i apreciate this that model looks EAXCTLY like the real thing....Thanks so much you are great.....i never thought someone so far away could do so much....Thanks....alot...The model is GREAT....... i cant wait to see your different b-17s your makin...THANKS ALOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Blake (P.S THANKS ALOT.)

[lego]

Thanks, you'r wellcome!

Something to my motivation: I love FMS, and I like flying around with my own models. With FMS I can realize some of my crazy ideas virtually without risking anything, and if someone else has a good idea for a model, and if the idea catches me (what was with the B-17 the case) then I have a lot of fun modelling those things.

So I mainly do it for myself, but I like it if anybody else can participate the fun I have, so I publish the models!

[lego]

And finally the long awaited B-17G with the big nose turret:

[WingedBird222]

now there there both GREAT..

[Arvee]

Nice one lego.

The fin is not quite correct, but a B17 doing an inverted fly by at zero feet is impressive!

It is also interesting to chase through trvo's canyons.

[lego]

Yes, I sayed it, it's not real scale...
There are a lot of other things wrong or missing, but only if you have a too close look.

E.g. the wheels of a B-17 are not retracted completely so the tires stay a bit outside the inner engine gondola.
Or there are several antennas everywhere.
Or the engine cooling outlets are missing.
Or the normal B-17G had its nose-side guns in amored windows, which were a bit raised. So you can look at my B-17G as an early B-17G...

And so on....

But hey, who cares? :p

And your right, doing slow and low fly-bys is really great. I spent already hours with that...