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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

Hong Kong Models 1/48 Mitchell B-25J "Glazed Nose"

My first HKM kit and I was really chuffed with the fit of the kit. It is beautifully engineered and fits together nicely except for the top of the fuselage which gave me some issues. I believe this is a known issue. I got the seam sorted [...]

Fire fighting Privateer P4Y-2 walk-around at Centennial of Naval Aviation

One of the highlights for me was this Privateer. As a boy growing up in the Pacific Northwest during fire season I would sit on my roof and watch B-17s, B-24s and Privateers drop borate on the hills above our city. I believe this bird [...]

Boeing B-38 Whiffer Conversion in 1/72 Scale

This is a “What If” conversion of the Academy B-17 kit into what the B-38 project might have evolved into had it gone into production. I’m not sure what it would be called, I have been thinking of it as the “Frankenfortress” but [...]

Fortress II RAF Coastal Command1/72 Academy

Took way too long on this one, getting frustrated with too many oops's. Kit decals (disintegrating decals were saved with a coat of Testors decal spray) CMR resin bomb-bay set (although the kit set is pretty good) Perspex nose window [...]

B-17 crash in Schlappintal Klosters Graubünden Switzerland

Here is the Story of tail Gunner Donald Boyle Tail Gunner Donald B. Boyle describes the further course of the Mission: We lost altitude the whole time, and then our two “little friends”, the accompanying Figthers, turned off over the [...]

Old-skool Monogram classic: the 1/48th B-17G Flying Fortress

Evening all. My latest completion is a real classic: Monogram's 1975 edition B-17G in 1/48th scale. I actually started this a number of years ago for a previous B-17 Group Build, but got side-tracked and never finished it. However, I [...]

Commemoration of 80 years of the B-17

Commemoration of 80 years of the B-17 emergency landing in Utzenstorf on August 17, 2023 See programm

A different type of Fortress… PB-1W

Greetings fellow imodellers, Here is the new-tool 1/72nd Airfix B-17G converted to a US Navy PB-1W airborne early warning aircraft. I used the old 299Models conversion which gives you the big radome in short-run injection plastic, as well [...]

Revell (Monogram) 1/48 B-17G

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engined heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the USAAC. Competing against Douglas and Martin for a contract to build 200 bombers, the Boeing entry, in the form of the prototype Model 299/XB-17, [...]

Revell 1/48 B-17F

Just completed this one for an unwell friend. 1/48 Revell Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress which flew with the 360th BS/ 303rd BG. Superscale decals. Sadly reported missing in Action Huls 22/6/43 Six killed in action: -Pilot: Ray [...]