gregbale
Wow! B-17s in space!
Thanks for sharing.
Greg
Interesting comment, and close to a project near & dear to my heart.
Background: When I was a boy, there was an short story about someone (think “Matt” Jefferies of Star Trek) who was so good at imagining the future that the actors on an series he was supplying with props and sets behaved as if they’d been marooned in the 1800s. The illo is burned into my memory: The designer’s office was filled with appropriate paraphernalia. The desk clutter included something that in general configuration was very like a pair of Dragon B-17F Waist Gunner sets glued lengthwise:
It was supposed to be a cutaway of a spaceship. As I recall, there was a mistake visible in that model: a spaceman (the word “astronaut” hadn’t been invented) in his pressure suit, “floating” on an umbilical, inside the hull.
I’d dearly love to scratch build that model!
Addendum: I should point out that the short story I mentioned had to have been printed, circa mid-to-late 1950s, in the rotogravure supplement of The Sunday Star, a now defunct Washington, DC, newspaper.
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