Get yer kits out.

I did one of those when I was in the fifth grade. "Been a while". B-52 IIRC. Landing gear looked like too much work.

 

Nope, no tank. But the New Ray snap together kit of a B-17 Flying Fortress from Hobby Lobby. Took about 20 minutes and the only painting I did was on the propeller tips. Like I said earlier, two cats named Callie and Muzzy run the house now. Kinda hard to have “tweezer work” type parts and glue and paints and a bottle of thinner on the table. And I’m surely not shutting myself away in a room somewhere, or the cats, for that matter.

 

Is there any kind of history behind this kit? Looks like it belongs to the 601st Bomb Squadron of the 398th Bomb Group of the 1st Air Division. Just out of interest.

 

Probably modeled after the one seen out of the window here, minus the letter and numbers on the side. I’m surprised that they even got the tail number the same. I don’t know the bomb squadrons like you do. the model even has the W on the wing.

 

That's a beautiful pic! I know little, but have recently been playing B-17 The Mighty Eighth : Redux, which peaked my interest. So I've been watching and reading a few things online to try and better understand the Bomb Groups, etc. It's very confusing, but the guy in this video breaks it down quite well -

 

I was a bit befuddled when I saw the bombers lined up on the flight deck centerline. Then I found a pix of them jammed up aft to give Jimmy as much room as possible for the run up. In the movie IIRC they had Doolittle's bird drop below the bow before clawing up for some altitude. Always wondered if that was Hollywood or it was actually the way it went.

 

Another bit of barely remembered trivia: The raiders only carried half a bomb load, fuel constraints. The Japanese reported "hundreds of bombs" all of which hit churches and schools.

 

Yes, and since then I only put five on deck, painted over the white lines which were wrong and tried to put new ones on the way they looked back then, approximately.

 

"And the truth shall get you not run over by an aircraft carrier."

Usually.