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Model Forum / General / Models / March 2007matchbox b17g
anyone have the decal sheet they can sell or trade? or a 3rd party sheet with some interesting noseart? and are there any comments about the kit?i understand the 2 tail types but why is the nose split off and seperate? seems odd, even for matchbox. > anyone have the decal sheet they can sell or trade? > or a 3rd party sheet with some interesting noseart? > and are there any comments about the kit?i understand the 2 > tail types but why is the nose split off and seperate? seems > odd, even for matchbox. Never had one so I'm just guessing that the nose was separate to fit the box. That one was probably the only large 1/72 Matchbox not owned by me. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. >> anyone have the decal sheet they can sell or trade? >> or a 3rd party sheet with some interesting noseart? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. makes sense along with the 2 tail assemblys. it's not a bad kit, some sanding and putty and it will look like an airplane. On Mar 18, 9:26 pm, some...@some.domain wrote: > anyone have the decal sheet they can sell or trade? > or a 3rd party sheet with some interesting noseart? > and are there any comments about the kit?i understand the 2 > tail types but why is the nose split off and seperate? seems > odd, even for matchbox. Perhaps it was for an eventual reissue of a plane with and without chin turret? I don't know squat about the B-17 or the kit to know if this is possible though. I know I do have the unbuilt kit down in the basement. > On Mar 18, 9:26 pm, some...@some.domain wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > this is possible though. I know I do have the unbuilt kit down in the > basement. I don't have the Matchbox B-17, but I thnk that the plan to eventually issue an earlier variant explains the cut off nose. The one thing that kit manufacturers miss (or ignore) is that the earlier B-17s had waist gun positions directly opposing each other. This led to gunners banging into one another and resulted in all later models having staggered waist positions. Tom >> On Mar 18, 9:26 pm, some...@some.domain wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >Tom right, late model f's and the g's, i believe. that seems like common sense. >>> On Mar 18, 9:26 pm, some...@some.domain wrote: >>> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > right, late model f's and the g's, i believe. > that seems like common sense. Staggered waist guns came during G production. Early -Gs has the unstaggered positions, like the earlier Forts. Dave >>>> On Mar 18, 9:26 pm, some...@some.domain wrote: >>>> [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > >Dave ok, thanks. took a long time for dawn to break over marblehead! |
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