1/48 Revell-Monogram B-17G Flying Fortress

Gallery Article by Matthew G. on Aug 24 2009

 

Here is my Flying Fortress, finally complete after several months of modeling in the spare time after school. This is only my fourth model so I'm still learning. I built it right out of box and used kit decals. This was the first model I've used filler on and it took a while to get the wing roots and other gaps  to look acceptable. I brush painted it with Model Master Olive Drab and Light Ghost Gray. After applying paint, I scribed thin lines through the paint next to the raised panel lines and filled these with an acrylic wash. Somewhere in this process I knocked off the radio mast, lost it and had to carve a new one out of a toothpick. I also knocked one of the forward machine guns into the fuselage and made a new one out of stretched sprue. It looks fine if you don't look too closely. I created exhaust stains by drybrushing black acrylic paint. I put the decals on from "Chow Hound" but the Testors Decal Set hardly did anything so they don't look to good. I'll use a different product next time. When I sprayed the whole thing over with Testors Dullcote, I forgot to mask two of the windows so they frosted.

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After completing the model, I assembled the bomb-cart and it goes with a "Semi-diorama" which sits on my desk.

I didn't know very much about modeling when I started this model and I have learned a lot of techniques since starting the interior. Thank you for looking.

Matthew G.

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Photos and text © by Matthew G.