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Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress

Matchbox | No. PK-603 | 1:72

Boxart Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress PK-603 Matchbox

Facts

Brand:
Matchbox
Title:
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress
Number:
PK-603
Scale:
1:72
Type:
Static model kit
Released:
1979 New tool
Packaging:
Rigid box (Top opener)
Topic:
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress » Propeller (Aircraft)

Markings

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US US Army Air Forces (1941-1947)
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Box contents

Plastic sprue, Plastic sprue (Clear), Decalsheet (waterslide)

Product timeline

 
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Instructions

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Comments

Phil Marchese
The Matchbox Fortress has the most accurate and thoughtfully designed fuselage of any 1/6" scale kit. There are no notorious trenches on the fuselage. Those inscribed panels panels are far less obtrusive than tose foubd in the 2012 resease. The wings are a bit flat in airfoil but are correctly located. This is not so on the Hasagawa kit and questionable on other offerings. The wings themselves are seeming of a whole different design and are inferior. Hasegawa donors can be adopted since that offering fuselage is also grossly mis-sculpted. The clear parts are universally described as thick. There are plenty of examples on the web of this kit built out of the box and the basic fedility of the Matchbox Fort is self-evident.
1 11 March 2013, 18:09

Projects

12 images
Matchbox 1/72 Boeing B-17G Flying FortressView album, image #1
1:72
1:72 Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (Matchbox PK-603)1:72 Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (Matchbox PK-603)
10 images
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "2nd Patches" 1:72 (Matcbox)View album, image #10
1:72
1:72 Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (Matchbox PK-603)
2 images
MATCHBOX B-17 as F-VE 381 BG TINKER TOYView album, image #1
1:72
Starboard flush middle cheek
1:72 Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (Matchbox PK-603)1:72 B-17G FlyingFortress (Hasegawa K10)

Gallery

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress 1:72
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress Bomber Command GB
Matchbox 1:72
by Bob Torres on imodeler.com

Reference material

Allied Bombers: B-17 Flying Fortress Series (Avonmore Books 16)
Allied Bombers: B-17 Flying Fortress Series Australia, New Guinea and the Solomons 1942-1944
Pacific Profiles No. 16
Michael Claringbould
2025
Boeing B-17 (Pen & Sword 27)
Boeing B-17
FlightCraft No. 27
Ben Skipper
2023

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