Markings 1:48 for two B-17F Flying Fortresses: one from the fighting over Europe and one from the Pacific theater.
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Version B-17F came about in 1942 and differed from its predecessors in a thousand small modifications, of which the most striking was the one-piece clear nose cover. It was precisely these machines that bore the main burden of the daylight raids over occupied Europe at a time when the escort fighters still reached no further than the German borders. The losses were such that only a minority of crews managed to complete a tour.
What is interesting about this printing is that it sets two very different services side by side. The aircraft 42-30836 with the name Dragon Lady belonged to the 551st Squadron of the 385th Bomb Group and carried a pair of squadron code letters on the fuselage, as was the custom with the Eighth Air Force. The second machine, 41-24554, served far to the south with the 43rd Bomb Group of the Fifth Air Force, where the Fortresses attacked Japanese shipping convoys from altitudes they were not built for.
With a bomber of this size it holds true that two errors in placement add up. The tail insignia, the fuselage number and the letter are aligned by the prominent seams of the skin, so first mark the level of the individual elements on the plastic in pencil and only then reach for the water. Take the drawing in the instructions as a guide, because such drawings tend to be drawn in simplified form and the real spacings on the model are a few tenths out.
Naši poradci a znalci sortimentu jsou připraveni odpovídat na Vaše dotazy (Po–Pá, 8–18 hod).
Zeptejte se na co potřebujete, odpovíme co nejdříve.
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