Nice work, John! I’m getting started on the Eduard Bloody Hundredth kit but your’s may turn out to be nicer.
Anyway, here’s my start pics:
I’ll be doing Rosie’s Riveters (because, of course I will):
Getting some pre-painting going and looking forward to the masking I’ll need to do.
Michael 
Thanks Michael.
Engines painted, could anyone advise on what colour the inside of the engine cowels should be ?
I believe they were bare metal silver. That’s what I plan to do with mine.
Michael
thanks for that .
@michaelsatin, I am also planning to do the Eduard kit if time allows - otherwise a smaller 1/72 kit.
I will follow your build with interest - especially around the nose clear parts. I guess the nose has to be painted separately and then added later? What is your plan?
Jesper,
So far so good, though not much “so far” so far. As for the nose sections, it’s pretty clear (get it?) that when Eduard had the new plastic parts added to the HKM kit, they went ahead and molded them all in clear, regardless of whether they have windows or not (for instance, framework for the nose guns is on a clear sprue.) However, they provide a VERY comprensive masking set, including for the inside and outside of the nose pieces. So I went and did what I normally do with these kinds of kits and glued the nose and tail bits to each fuselage half:
Note, however, that while the fit is very good, the nose pieces are not quite the same diameter as the fuselage halves. They’re a litte bigger. This is due to the different top parts for the nose which are smaller in diameter than the fuselage bits. It’s a little tricky to explain, but a close look at the instructions helps. Line them up even with the bottom seams and it should work out fine.
Having masked all the molded in windows, I’m now preparing to paint the interior. Wish me luck!
Michael
Michael, sounds good. I will follow closely 
Good luck!! 
An update on the Eduard/HKM 1/48 kit. Pre-painting (at least the airbrushing) done. This isn’t all of it, just what I could fit on the protography surface:
Maybe I’ll get to start sticking bits together soon!
Michael
But you presented well. I don’t really get ahead. But I’m to blame that myself. After all, I really wanted to use photo -etched parts. ::
Up to now i takle with sanding of sink marks, cockpit detailing, test fitting of some components like the wheel housing of the main landing gear.
At my build rate I had better get started. Nice work above.
Some progress on my Bloody Hundredth machine:
I never pretended to be a photo-etch guru and I’m not thrilled with the throttles, but here we are! The interior is just placed in the fuselage to make sure everything’s lining up.
Michael 
Hi Michael,
Looks good so far. I’m looking forward to your next update.
I like the “green apple”. Well researched. Most of the build B-17 kits i’ve seen show it yellow as the the other oxygen tanks.
Happy modelling
Harald
Thanks, Harald! I’d read somewhere that the Army generally used low pressure oxygen tanks and they were yellow, but the Navy used high pressure and they were green (or is yellow high and green low? 
.) Anyway, photos I’ve seen of B-17s showed the big main tanks as yellow (low pressure) but the emergency portable tanks as green (high pressure). So that’s what I went with.
Michael
Interesting project. I am very excited about the build.
I have come a little further recently. The first parts are painted and therefore I share some pictures of the current status here.
Nice start, I was very impressed with the colour markers so much that I’m looking into partymarkers if they can be complimentary to each other as I understand they have a more pointed tip.
Nice work, DUKW! Don’t you just love painting yellow?
Meanwhile, I’m ready to close up the fuselage on mine. But first:
The only aftermarket I’m using is those seat cusions. KitsWorld 3-D decals.
Got the fuselage halves and top together with only a fair amount of pushing and shoving. Giving them a good long time to set up.
Michael
Started to put the bombadiers area together. Had to trim some plastic off the seat to get it to fit in the locating hole next to the console
I tried water and alcohol based partymarkers. But i was disapointed about the result.
