A color decal sheet in 1:32 scale for the late Boeing B-17G. It is based on the surviving example 44-85829, which flies with the code GD-Y in the museum colors of the Eighth Air Force.
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The aircraft numbered 44-85829 was built by a licensed line only in 1945 and never reached the front. After the war it served the coast guard, later toiled as a fire bomber over American forests, and only in the 1980s was it taken on by the volunteers of a museum in Michigan. It returned to the air after a long restoration in the middle of the 1990s, with the code GD-Y on its sides and with a name chosen for it by its new crew. The combination of bare metal, the dark anti-glare panel in front of the cockpit and the colored areas on the tail makes it one of the most striking surviving Fortresses of all.
You will make the work easier by laying the markings on a smoothly varnished surface and soaking the excess water up with a tissue from the center toward the edges. A decal softener handles the corrugated skin around the gun turrets, but a weak layer is enough; with a heavy dose the film wrinkles and can no longer be straightened, and once it is applied the decal is left undisturbed for at least forty-five minutes. Finally seal the completed markings with varnish, otherwise you will easily scratch them during further handling of the model. Anyone building the museum appearance of this aircraft will appreciate that no wartime grime is needed under the markings: polished metal and the sharp edges of the color fields match how the machine looks today.
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