A 1:32 decal sheet for the Boeing B-17G in the finish of the museum aircraft 44-83514, which can be seen in Mesa, Arizona and became famous for the painting of a girl from a poster of the period.
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The bomber 44-83514 was built at the close of the war and never saw combat. It then served for many years in the second line, passed through civilian operation and finally came into the care of the Arizona wing of the Commemorative Air Force, which returned it to its wartime appearance. Today it stands in a hangar in Mesa and is among the most photographed Fortresses of all, mainly because of the painting of a smiling girl on the left side of the nose. A model in the largest scale can finally carry that painting: in smaller sizes only a patch of color is left of it, whereas here even the drawing of the face can be made out.
The finish of a surviving machine has one advantage and one disadvantage. The advantage is plenty of photographs from air shows, against which the position of every marking can be checked. The disadvantage is that the usual dose of weathered paint and oil stains cannot be allowed on the model: a maintained aircraft looks clean and exaggerated patina would move it somewhere else. Keep therefore to faint boot prints on the wing and light soiling around the exhausts. Anyone who wants the machine in combat condition can use the same markings on a shabbier model, but then it pays to add faded edges and worn paint along the walkways.
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