Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
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B-17F Miami Clipper
This B-17 completed 28 missions with no crew members killed, only two were wounded. The Miami Clipper completed its last mission in March of 1944 and then was returned to the USA. It was scrapped in January 1946.
It was assigned to the [...]
Academy B-17F: Mediterranean Ferret
I am always looking for planes to build that are a little out of the ordinary. I came across an article in Aviation Historian about B-17Fs that were used in the Mediterranean as ferrets. A ferret is an aircraft that is designed to [...]
Revellogram 1/48 B-17G
This is a build for a friend whose father was initial crew on this aircraft in WW II. An old molding that I'm sure many here are familiar with, it was a decent kit considering it's age and the manufacturing limitations of the seventies. It [...]
HK'S 1/48 B-17F-35-BO Lucious Lady
Any aircraft modeler who knows anything about WWII certainly knows about the iconic Boeing B-17. The images and film of the 8th AF bomber fleets smashing the Reich, along with countless books, movies, documentaries, TV and personal [...]
Bombs away (B17E diorama)
“Flak so thick you could walk on it” . Only over nazi Germany american B-17 dropped over 640,000 tons of bombs during the war. Estimates of German civilians killed only by Allied strategic bombing have ranged from around 350,000 to [...]
Classic Kit: Hasegawa 1/72 B-17G
Here's the vintage Hasegawa that is still being sold today. I finished it in April and on this one I photographed it outside using a Nikon film camera. An Eduard mask made it so much easier in painting the model. I did correct the [...]
'What If' Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress Early production HK Models
Good day ,
after a long time I dared to show the finished model.
It's a B-17 from HK Models in 1/48.
Again, I'm excited about how well the model is made and how good it looks. It is a heavy and large piece of furniture.
For the first time, [...]
Monogram B-17 Flying Fortress, "The Swoose -1944 Model" 1/48th
Well my first completion of the new year, and one that I have been working on for a longer period of time than I would like to admit. I did a build blog in the Aircraft work in progress (link) . I could have just as easily done it in the [...]
Video: Airfix 1:72 B-17G Flying Fortress
Okay, I wasn't expecting to build two B-17's this past year. I bought this in the early summer and the more I looked at the parts the more I wanted to build this kit! I guess in a way I couldn't resist as the B-17 is my favourite [...]
B-17G ‘Nine O Nine’ 323rd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group
Hi everybody,
For my first post, I wanted to present one of my favourite aircraft: The mighty B-17 G. The model is the 1/72 Revel Kit built from the box. I chose to make the famous ‘Nine O Nine’, which unfortunately crashed in October [...]
