B-17 Flying Fortress

Display Case – Your Model Builds!

John Fuller

Aircraft modelling remains vastly popular – as shown by this selection of reader projects, including bonus online-only extras.

John Fuller
Feature Freemium

Bigger and Better: Hailsham & District Scale Model Show Report

EXTRA IMAGES INSIDE: EXTRA IMAGES INSIDE: The Hailsham and District Model Show featured a new larger venue and was a great success, as Mike and Ethan Williams report.

Review Premium

Decal Review: Kits-World's Icelandic Beauties - 1/32 B-17Gs

Kits-World has produced several aftermarket decal sheets suitable for large-scale B-17 Flying Fortresses including Hong Kong Models’ 1/32 offering – its RAF-themed sets include this pair of meteorological reconnaissance airframes.

Review Premium

AIRSHOWS AND INTELLIGENCE

Aftermarket decal company Kits- World regularly covers unusual schemes – this set of 1/48 B-17 markings is a case in point, depicting a current museum airframe and a captured Luftwaffe example.

BRIGHT FORTRESS

The Autumn weather may be dull, but Airfix’s recent releases – notably a yellow-tailed 1/72 B-17G Flying Fortress – will brighten the view.

THE FORTRESS REVISITED

Schiffer Publishing's second hardback study of the Boeing B-17 offers great value and plentiful detail.

Review Premium

FLYING FORTRESS FASCIA

Hong Kong Models’ 1/48 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress receives Eduard’s SPACE treatment with this 3D decal and photo-etched steel combo suggested for the -F variant offerings.

Review Premium

AIRBORNE WEATHER LADIES

Those with Hong Kong Model’s monstrous 1/32 Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress offerings may wish to consider Kits-World’s aftermarket markings, which cater for a pair of RAF Coastal Command-operated airframes used for meteorological reconnaissance sorties.