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I just looked at the Academy 1/72 B-17E on Academy's website. There are two glaring errors. One is that it uses the F model paddleblade props rather than the proper toothpick props. Somebody will have to scavenge props from a C-47 for a proper E model. Next, it looks like there is no remote control belly turret for the Japanese version. The two US versions, 41-2440 and 41-2458, might have had retrofitted manned ball turrets from scrapped later E and F models sometime during their life as documented in the recent Aviation History article by Steve Birdsall on the Pearl Harbor B-17E's. I would have thought that Academy would have done "Black Jack", 41-2446, the recovered B-17E from PNG.
WIP: Monogram 1/72 B-26 (Snaptite) as 73rd BS B-26, 40-1408, torpedo bomber attempt on Ryujo
Monogram 1/72 B-26 (Snaptite) as 22nd BG B-26, 7-Mile Drome, New Guinea
Minicraft 1/72 B-24D as LB-30, AL-613, "Tough Boy", 28th Composite Group
Im eagerly awaiting Airfix's 1/72 B-17 that's s'posta come out later this year. Looks quite impressive from what ive seen.
Chris
Bossman Im eagerly awaiting Airfix's 1/72 B-17 that's s'posta come out later this year. Looks quite impressive from what ive seen. Chris
Sometime in November I think. I asked Santa already for Christmas, just in case.
Steve
Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.
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Ugh, Airfix's B-17 is a G model which I think has been overdone. Need more of the earlier models. But their 1/48 P-40B looks very interesting compared to the old RM P-40B/C. Also their 8th AF vehicle set in 1/72 looks very fine indeed.
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