1/72 B-17G Flying Fortress
Product Number: ACY2143
Manufacturer: Academy Plastics
Availability:Discontinued, no longer available for purchase
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  • Product Information

This is a plastic 1/72 B-17G Flying Fortress from Academy Plastics. It's for experienced modelers.

Product Features
  • Detailed 1/72nd scale for static display only.
  • Markings included for one aircraft with staggered waist gun positions.
  • Appx. 140 parts in light grey and clear with delicate recessed panel lines - not including all the unneeded extra parts from the early
  • B-17 kits.
  • Detailed engine fronts and cowlings; correct nose and chin turret.
  • Cockpit detail: floor, instrument panel with decal, seats, and controls.
  • Detailed bomb bay with bomb racks, bombs, and positionable bomb doors.
  • Late production style tail gun position.
  • Service History: USAAF; 1941-45.
  • Description: Heavily armed, four-engine daylight heavy bomber.
Product Specifications

Scale: 1/72

  • Academy Product Number: 2143
What's Included

One 1/72 B-17G Flying Fortress Airplane

Required
  • Assembly
  • Modeling Knife (tes50627c)
  • Paint: (see MARKING OPTIONS)
  • Paint Brushes
  • Sandpaper (tes8802)
  • Liquid Plastic Cement (tes3502)
  • White Glue (hcahcay8500)
  • CA (hlc107) or Tube Type (thick) Plastic Cement (tes3501)
  • Nice-to-have tools: Needle File Set, Sprue Cutter, Airbrush
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Product Markings
  • Single sheet of decals which contains national insignia, instrument
  • panel, aircraft ID number and code letters, nose art, and
  • identification bands for wings, stabilizer, and vertical fin.
  • Kit markings are for B-17G A/C #337907 "Carolina Moon"- 851st Bomb
  • Squadron 490th Bomb Group.
  • Aircraft was overall natural aluminum with red identification bands.
  • Additional Paints Required
  • Flat: Black, Interior Green, Tan, Metallic Grey, Yellow, Burnt Metal,
  • Grey, Aluminum, Red, Blue, Orange, Light Grey.
  • Gloss: Silver, White, Gun Metal.
Manufacturer Comments

Keep item safely out of reach of small children.

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