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My build of the ancient Airfix 1/72 Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (585) This was intended to be an OOB build but it ended up being a bit more involved. The tail was modified to a Cheyenne tail, and the starboard waist window was moved back opposite the port window. I also removed the rivets. I applied Kits-World decals but they were useless and I had to resort to using the kit decals, which necessitated the painting of Miss Lace's dress red. Dave -
Ok, continuing with an old and slow, very untypical of me build originating in the cold wild world WIP:s and then moving into the cover of the 2020 Stranger in Town GB, and then because it was way under 25% limit it got a new start in They Also Serve GB... Here comes the Ridgewell Celebrity again. Maybe I get her finished this time? Here she goes anyway...- 33 replies
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Now what does that mean? Let me explain by first quoting from the GB Chat: Wez: "8. The onus will be on the modeller to provide evidence that their subject is in keeping with the rules (e.g. vppelt68 would have to provide the evidence substantiating his proposed Fortress used for the repatriation of PoW's)." Moi: Wez is this good enough evidence? This link leads us to a German museum exhibition about Operation Revival and shows a 535th BS of the 381st BG B-17 MS*I (also marked as MS*S) "Crack-A-Dawn". We do know the museum historians can cut corners when choosing pictures and film material, unlike we modellers , but I keep digging for more proof... Wez: This is just the sort of evidence needed, I'm not expecting people to go rummaging through the national archives, just something that backs up their choice of subject. I'll add your name to the list. END QUOTE. I do have that "Crack-A-Dawn" as a back-up-plan, but also I will try to find proof of a specific 532nd Bomb Squadron aircraft of the same Bomb Group, to be built in this GB using the excellent Airfix recent tool kit. The 532nd BS squadron code in the fuselage? Of course it was VE! V-P