Airfix B-17 G 1/72

[George72]

Hi there,

This is my recent project, a nice Airfix kit. Not my usual scale, but this bird in 1/48 just won’t fit my space here. 

Except Eduard Masks, a must for all these clear parts, everything else OOB. 

Fitting is nice in general, except for the clear parts that build into the tail gun structure being too narrow for the fuselage, which causes a step. Also, after glueing the fuselage halves, I ended up with a gap right in front of the windshield. Despite this, the clear part for the “canopy” structure fitted well with the gap. So, instead of forcing the halves to join, I just put some additional plastic between them and the result was fine.

Decals a little bit too thick, but with the help of Mr Setter, went really well. 

Hope you enjoy!

Cheers!

[TheyJammedKenny!]

Wow!  Who could possibly resist the allure of a well-crafted B-17 in any of its beautiful forms?  Bravo.

[Rob K.]

Great looking fortress👍

[Farmerboy]

Fantastic, great build and finish, you really have done a good job of blending in the clear forward fuselage parts, impressive stuff!

[Josip]

One of the better Airfix B-17s! But it could really benefit from extra riveting, 1:72 scale machine gun barrels and some more bombs. 

[Sky Keg]

It`s a beauty!!!!!!!  Very nice results. 

 

Mike

[Konrad]

Great painting & weathering! Congratulations!

[gazza l]

Really nice job, the weathering looks nice.

 

gazza l

[Lord Riot]

That’s gorgeous! So well finished and weathered. Cracking bit of detail with the mud on the tyres too. Brilliant looking Fortress.

[TonyW]

Very well finished indeed.

 

Sometimes it's the little things that make a model. For me the detailing of the bomb bay on your build really does take the model up a notch. 

[Homer]

Excellent piece of modelling well done 👏

[franky boy]

Great work. 
 

Which paints did you use for the nmf?

 

James 

[binbrook87]

That's a wonderful B-17. The natural metal finish is just perfect, and the weathering and exhaust staining are just sublime! Fantastic job! 👍👍

[Mark4700]

Now that is a nice B17. Weathering looks just right. 

[George72]

10 hours ago, TheyJammedKenny! said:

Wow!  Who could possibly resist the allure of a well-crafted B-17 in any of its beautiful forms?  Bravo.

Thank you!

7 hours ago, Rob K. said:

Great looking fortress👍

Thank you!

[George72]

5 hours ago, Farmerboy said:

Fantastic, great build and finish, you really have done a good job of blending in the clear forward fuselage parts, impressive stuff!

Thank you!

[George72]

4 hours ago, Josip said:

One of the better Airfix B-17s! But it could really benefit from extra riveting, 1:72 scale machine gun barrels and some more bombs. 

Thank you!

4 hours ago, Sky Keg said:

It`s a beauty!!!!!!!  Very nice results. 

 

Mike

Thank you!

[George72]

3 hours ago, Konrad said:

Great painting & weathering! Congratulations!

Thank you!

3 hours ago, gazza l said:

Really nice job, the weathering looks nice.

 

gazza l

Thank you!

3 hours ago, Lord Riot said:

That’s gorgeous! So well finished and weathered. Cracking bit of detail with the mud on the tyres too. Brilliant looking Fortress.

Thank you!

[George72]

2 hours ago, TonyW said:

Very well finished indeed.

 

Sometimes it's the little things that make a model. For me the detailing of the bomb bay on your build really does take the model up a notch. 

Thank you!

[George72]

2 hours ago, Homer said:

Excellent piece of modelling well done 👏

Thank you!

[lasermonkey]

Lovely job there.

 

I noticed that you have had the badly moulded tail turret issue. Both of my Airfix B-17s had this problem too, though others seem to have parts that don’t leave a large step. I have told Airfix of the problem, so at least they’re aware of it. I’m still trying to work out how these parts can be so variable.

[George72]

2 hours ago, franky boy said:

Great work. 
 

Which paints did you use for the nmf?

 

James 

Thank you! I've used local polyester automotive paint, and weathered with oils.

[George72]

2 hours ago, binbrook87 said:

That's a wonderful B-17. The natural metal finish is just perfect, and the weathering and exhaust staining are just sublime! Fantastic job! 👍👍

Thank you!

1 hour ago, Mark4700 said:

Now that is a nice B17. Weathering looks just right. 

Thank you!

[George72]

8 minutes ago, lasermonkey said:

Lovely job there.

 

I noticed that you have had the badly moulded tail turret issue. Both of my Airfix B-17s had this problem too, though others seem to have parts that don’t leave a large step. I have told Airfix of the problem, so at least they’re aware of it. I’m still trying to work out how these parts can be so variable.

Thank you! That's good, hope they fix it. As  matter of fact, I tried to minimize and glued the cone halves to each of the fuselages halves before put it all together. It worked in a way, leaving me with some manageable gap instead a larger step. But still a headache to make it all flushed.

[SAT69]

I believe that's the finest looking B-17 I've seen on this web site.