B-17 Flying Fortress
Display Case – Your Model Builds!
Aircraft modelling remains vastly popular – as shown by this selection of reader projects, including bonus online-only extras.
John FullerBigger 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.