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New 1/72 Academy B-17E "Pacific Theater"

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Posted by mississippivol on Saturday, May 14, 2016 12:24 PM
I wondered about the prop blades, Rich. I read cybermodeler's review, but I didn't see them mention it.
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Posted by richs26 on Friday, May 13, 2016 10:45 PM

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.

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

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Posted by modelcrazy on Friday, May 13, 2016 8:53 PM

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

 

Ditto Sometime in November I think. I asked Santa already for Christmas, just in case.

Steve

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Posted by Bossman on Friday, May 13, 2016 8:49 PM

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

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New 1/72 Academy B-17E "Pacific Theater"
Posted by richs26 on Friday, May 13, 2016 5:57 PM

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

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