I have been far too slow to put up my first thread on the Forum.
I started this model over a year ago and am making slow progress. I find most of my weekends taken up with working on a 1/1 scale B-17, 44-8543, known as
Chuckie, at the Vintage Flying Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.
I started with a 1/48th scale Monogram B-17G and Koster B-17C/D conversion kit. If you have never built a model using a Koster product I highly recommend his kits. Here are a few photos of the very beginning of the project:
The initial cut of the aft fuselage:
Boeing Y1B-17 Project--1/48th Scale
The shortened forward fuselage common to all small-tailed Fortress variants:
Boeing Y1B-17 Project--1/48th Scale
This is what comes with the Koster kit. Not only the parts for the "shark fin" C and D model Fortress, but the transparent sheet also include the pieces needed to build a Cheyenne tail turret for the later Gs.
Boeing Y1B-17 Project--1/48th Scale
If anyone is interested I'll post more in-progress photos and text.
Scott