Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
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- Review: H-K Models 1/48 scale B-17G Flying Fortress – here it is with the full review
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- 1/48 Scale Monogram B-17G Flying Fortress
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- 1/48 PB-1W Conversion
- Academy B-17C/D in the Hawaiian Air Depot Scheme in 1/72 Scale
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- Here it is – the H-K 1/48 B-17G (early production)
Finished Projects!
Hi everyone! It’s been a very busy month for the beginning of college -unfortunately that also means that I can’t build my models anymore and would have to wait for breaks to get back on the bench. So I thought I’d share some of my [...]
An early B-17: before the Flying Fortress became a legend!
Does a B-17 Flying Fortress really need to be presented in modelling circles? Probably not, if it is a representative of the thousands of E, F or G versions built, but very well, if one is faced with the early variant B-17B as in this [...]
1/48 HKM B-17G Flying Fortress “Queenie”
This is 1/48 HKM’s B-17G-15 (42-31353) LG-Q named “Queenie” from 91st BG, 322nd BS in Bassingbourn –England April 1944.
I have used Eduard instrument panel and seat belts in the cockpit.
I shortened the length of the landing legs [...]
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 Command – 1/72 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
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