B-17G. Airfix or Revell?

[vppelt68]

15 hours ago, e8n2 said:

Hi Mike!  Don't forget that the glass for the Cheyenne turret on the Hasegawa G is much to small in height.  Compare it to the height of the Cheyenne turret on the Airfix kit and it is quite noticeable.  I plan to do cross kitting of the wings between Hasegawa and Academy to build an early F and early G one of these days.  Saving one of the Fortress IIIs to be done as a PB-1W.

Later,

Dave

This is based only on dry-fitting the parts, but it looks like a Revell or Airfix windscreen (you get one extra in each kit, pt.1) could be implanted in the Hasegawa fuselage in a rather simple operation to improve the maybe most obvious fault of that kit. Likewise in the tail, a spare Revell Cheyenne or Stinger tail (you get one extra in each kit, pt. 2) would fix the Hasegawa mistake there. Otherwise, the Hase kit still looks pretty good and can be bought with decent price. V-P

[PhantomBigStu]

1 hour ago, vppelt68 said:

The Airfix G isn't too difficult to backdate to a non-staggered waist either:

 

Indeed, definitely be trying that one myself in due course