I have one too😂 still hanging in my office. I built mine when i was about 13 years old. Paint is a little off but it still looks nice. Im in my 40s now. I have a B-29 and a B-24 in the same scale. They made good kits in the 90s.
I have my own 36 year old "Belle". Indeed, it's a beautiful airplane with almost the same paint scheme, including chipping around the calf flaps, nose, propellers, etc. Looks like we all modelers around the world think the same ideas: I hung nose down on the wall mine, along with a beautiful DC 3 in 1/48, one C130 Hercules in 1/72, and an F27 Fokker. I guess my wife is a supporting hero allowing me drilling away all walls for my gallery. Boy, I love airplanes. Kudos from Mexico.
I am currently working on this model. Very tedious work to get it all right. I have done my research. I am currently just two years in at using an airbrush and have bought three from Iwata and what a learning curve to that! Every time I use it I get the hebby gee bees lol as one can ruin a model pretty quick if the airbrush aint clean or paint isnt mixed right and air pressure too. Lots of practice and I have taken two airbrush course offered at the colledge here nightschool. Your model looks excellent...GRATZ WELL DONE SIR.
Great job on putting the Belle together.I too agree not much detail in cockpit nose area.Your paint looks great.Hopefully I will get mine like yours.Mine just not being done in three days.
Hi, I got just the same one waiting to be build. I Got a Titanic 1:400 first, working on it, not every day but I GOT TO DO IT, cuse the only first class sapnish wonen who survived was my gran gran mother so...my mother is waiting to put it in her house..jejeje, but what I do really love doing it is WWII planes....beautiful job, thanks a lot to show it, I,d preffer to do the "Meat Hound", but I will think bout' it. All the best from Alcalá xe Henares, Madrid, Spain.
canadians put lots of nose art on their halifaxes and lancasters. check out 'Vicki the vicious virgin', a halifax bomber from a canadian squadron. also, monogram parts are interchangeable with the revell kit. i built my b-17 F by using all the parts from the B-17G.
Very cool video. I saw the Memphis Bell reconstruction at Patterson. The war bird flew on all three mission my Uncle Frank flew. I the video I forgot to the Bell did not drop down in altitude 1May43 Saint Nazaire raid for beaching radio silence they stayed at altitude. You can watch My Uncle’s documentary on RU-vid “3 Days In May 1943”. Great model
Great Job! I recently built Revell's G model B-17 in 1/48. My only complaint was the mold details were a little soft on it. Had a good time building it all the same. Thanks for sharing!
A personal thing, but I like to see the exhaust soot trails on the engine flarings and wings, adds life. Obviously a wonderful build, goes without saying. As an aside my favorite was the "Duel" truck, you really caught the menacing aura of the original, just as Spielberg intended.........
That's fantastic work..the Belle is undergoing the finishing touches on restoration and will be ready for public display sometime in May of next year at the museum of the United States air Force in Dayton Ohio in time for the anniversary of her 25th bombing run
That's a beautiful plane. My brothers father in law flies I think it's the B17 and the B24 Liberator around the country to the air shows. He even gave me a picture of Michael Dorn (Worf) flying it, he is also a pilot. I'll have to find it and share it with you guys. GREAT JOB as usual!!
Great work Boyd, she looks real enough to fly. I took your recommendation from the Model Shop and watched "Sole Survivor". I had never heard of it but enjoyed it. I was surprised by the ending, I thought I had it figured out about 2/3 of the way through but was wrong.
I have my own B17F Memphis Belle and I'm still crazy about it. Its size is amazing. My "Memphis" has been with me for about 30 yeas now and looks like this kit is the very same! I do agree with you about it results disappointing the lack of detailed interiors; there are no interiors whatsoever! well, I guess we shouldn't be so rude with Revell as the only hardly detailed interior is the cockpit. Congrats to you as this model is a result of a very nice 3 day work!
regarding the interior on this kit, all the detail interior parts from the Monagram G kit fits perfectly in the Revell F kit...also replace the Revell top turret for the Monagram top turret with the Revell top turret glass on it and u now have a top turret with elevatable guns...
Awesome work as usual Boyd. Where I live I'm not far from the airport, and there is a field near it where they have old WWII aircraft. And in spring and summer they fly over my house on the weekends, one of the planes is a B-17, the other isa B-25, and then they also fly a P-51 mustang, a F4U Corsair, and a Bi plane that is painted up like the Red Barron's plane over as well. So it gets cool seeing and hearing them flying over. Plus we get an airshow every July at the airport so you get all kinds of military planes fly over then. One year we had a huge old bomber fly over. It was bigger than the 17, and 25. Only seen it once but it actually rattled the windows when it flew over. Bit your 17 reminds me allot of the one that fly's over in the summer.
Hello Boyd the rudder and the control surfaces were fabric covered they faded driffently than the metal parts hope this helps explain the various shades of olive drab nice build keep it up stay the course Bruce
"😉Fantastic build ..She's Just beautiful 💜💜 B17 all the way! ...just to say I've got both the 1:72 & 1:48 ..probably Cary out the build on the 1:72 1st ..well built looks gorgeous ..well done Sir! d 🤕the dog 🐕
After building Monogram's B-17G I too was disappointed with the lack of detail on this interior of this one. I don't know If I'll take the time to detail out the forward compartment in the nose because HK may come out with a 1/48 F to follow their G. It does need the detail in there as it's quite easy to see in especially if you leave the plexi out like you did. If you're adventurous, HPH has a 1/48 B-36 which is very nice. (I'm doing a youtube video review soon.) The B-52G just came out too. (Should have mine Monday.) It is also 1/48 although I am disappointed the option to do a Vietnam era D isn't available.
I still find it odd that the Revell (and especially the Monagram) kits both molded the bomb bay doors closed! If you were disappointed by the lack of interior detail on this one, have a go at the Monogram G model! Enough to keep it interesting. (The nose compartment is where it is really needed because of the glass nose and the Monogram kit delivers!)
Very nice job i got one im waiting on till i get all the extra's and will have motorized propellers and a light kit. Now HK models have a 1/32 B-17 and a few others in 1/32 scale bit pricey but worth it. thay have nice detail and you can scratch build more detail a lot easier.
Imho the chipping effects look a bit strange. I know that paint first and mostly chips on edges, but on your model the overall paintjob is pretty much like out of the factory and just some scratches on the edges. I would also make the body of the plane weathered and more "ruff". But to be honest this is nitpicking, all in all its a great model well done!
Sorry, a bit off topic I know, but what is the Maximilian (The Black Hole) robot model right at the very end of the video, is it a model kit or 3D printed?
inside detail seems spartan, especially for a 1/48 kit. i want to build this beast but this vid demonstrates that she's gonna need a lot of work for detail. check out plasmo's 1/72 Airfix B 17 build and you,ll get the gist. Nice job though.
not a bomber but the P-61, right up the alley of the B-25: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_P-61_Black_Widow#/media/File:Northrop_P-61_green_airborne.jpg
Man, that is a nice build up Boyd! This has always been one of my favorites as well and you have done her justice!! Really like how you are hanging them on the wall! What are you using to hang them?
I stumbled upon this video, I've done plenty of WWII a.f.vs over the past 13 years, this actually makes me want to do a WWII flyer. Good find. 11:54, is that the robot from "The Black Hole"?
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Great Job...Did you find out that the REAL DEAL Memphis Belle is at Wright Patterson being restored?... sadly its going for a static display is what the AF told me... What did you use for that antenna on the back going up to the top of that stabilizer?
+68gto400 Yes, I saw that they were restoring her. Kinda makes sense about it being non flying. It would be tragic if something were to happen if they flew it. I'm afraid that will be the case with a lot of the original birds from WWII. They will just be too valuable to fly as more time goes by. Probably be mostly replicas that will fly.
+TrekWorks Did you know that the Liberty Belle B-17 burned up after an emergency landing. I first heard about it on RU-vid just surfing through videos.
This is my favorite plane the pilots name is Captain Morgan the bad thing the plane got scraped in WWII the good thing the Captain and the co-pilot re build the plane i believe and i know it is getting fixed up
Not, it wasn' t like that. The Scheme of camo was thought and done that way mixing thatspot of green over olive green, I tell you cause I've beeen reading about. All the best!!! I would like to be american...I tell ya this.🤫
FYI Boyd, Ohio has the original B-17F Memphis Belle at the National Museum of the USAF in Dayton, Ohio. The Air Force repossessed it from the city of Memphis, Tenn because the town fathers could not properly care for the aircraft. They let it sit out in the open FOR DECADES with no protection. The plane was gradually being worn down by the weather, bird droppings, and vandals. Virtually every flight instrument and most of the interior of the plane was scavenged by thieves and people with nothing better to do with their time (aka vandals aka idiots with no appreciation for history and the art of engineering and manufacturing let alone the sacrifices of the guys who flew in that plane during World War II). Darn shame... So many historic vehicles (ships and planes) get scrapped before their time and then others they let deteriorate this badly. I doubt this plane would have been saved if it hadn't been THE Memphis Belle. (Scratch that thought -- I guess there's a fair chance it STILL would have made the cut given how few World War II planes actually still exist. I think in total there's less than 50 surviving B-17s worldwide out of just under 13,000 built. 39 of those are in the US.) There's a long history of bomber aircraft being named after this plane in the Air Force (two B-52s, an FB-111A, and an active-duty B-1B Bomber) and quite a few of these have also been preserved in museums around the country. There's also another B-17, a G-model, that was painted as the Memphis Belle for the 1990 movie and still flies with those marking. The plane has been in Dayton for over a decade now and it's taking a long while to get it back up to display condition. They want to take their time getting the plane close to the shape it was in when it was retired. I would imagine they're going to have to scratch-build a lot of replacement parts and virtually the entire interior's furnishing. The plane will eventually be a part of the permanent collection in the museum's World War II gallery I'd imagine...
You're kind of late complimenting the model work... I think Boyd tuned you out. Not that I blame him. There's way too many drive-by-shooting RU-vidrs who have nothing better to do than spread their misery around... Not that that this will register with you.
