BUILDING A HIGH QUALITY B-17 (PART 6)

November.03.2010 · Posted By - Paul

With the ball turret finished I decided to start the interior construction from the front of the aircraft to the back.  The piece of interior equipment that lives at the far front of the B-17 is the Norden bombsight.  Due to the fame of this piece of equipment and the fact that it can be seen from outside the aircraft through the large nose window I decided to put a lot of detail into it. In fact, so much detail …

BUILDING A HIGH QUALITY B-17 (PART 5)

November.03.2010 · Posted By - Paul

Now that the low poly version of the B-17 has been released it’s time to work on the detailed interior for the higher poly version that is intended to be released during Summer 2011.

Since the B-17 ball turret is pretty self contained I decided to work on that first.  Even though the turret is pretty small in the real world (barely big enough to fit a single person), it is filled with a surprising amount of equipment.  One of …

Building a High Quality B-17 (Part 4)

October.13.2010 · Posted By - Paul

Somewhere in the building process the team made the decision to build two versions of the B-17.  We would build a model that would have a nice exterior and very basic interior and then build a second version with a very detailed interior.  The first version would release in September 2010 and the more advanced version with nice interior would release in summer 2011.

Anyway, with the wings and fuselage finished as well as all the details directly associated with them …