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Boeing B-17G - "Mah Ideel" [Airfix 1/72]


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As others have said the NMF is stunning - as is the detail work.

 

A couple of things to consider if you build another:

 

- the stains from behind the wing vents shouldn't come from the vents - hot air came form them when in flight and actually diverted the oil and muck around the vents. If you look closely at real B-17s you'll see thin streaks of oil going between them, but never from them.

- wartime B-17s were completely unpainted internally, other than exposed metal on the flight deck which was bronze green. 'Interior green' was not used on wartime Forts. By the time G-models were coming off the production lines, the olive green sound-deadening material was no longer being fitted to the nose and radio room and thus they would be completely bare aluminium inside. 

 

I have the Airfix kit to do and it does look like a great kit!

 

All the best,

Tom

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