This latest release
from Lifelike
Decals
features four different B-17's. This is Part 2 of a series dealing
with the B-17 during WW2.
The
4 aircraft all include B-17's with colourful nose art and all these B-17's are
the later G model with the larger number of guns.
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B-17G-30-BO
s/n 42-31886, "Amazing Maizie", 32BS/301BG Lucerna, Italy in April
1944. Aircraft is overall Olive Drab with sexy noseart of a blonde in
a short blue dress with the script "Amazing Maizie".
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B-17G-20-BO
s/n 42-31452, "Fifty Packing Mama", 20BS/2BG Amendola, Italy in
the spring of 1944. Aircraft is overall Olive Drab with cartoon
noseart of a big woman blasting away with a 50 cal machine gun with the
script "Fifty Packing Mama".
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B-17G-25-BO
s/n 42-31844, "The Swoose", 772BS/463BG Celone AB, Italy in
September 1944. Aircraft is overall light and badly faded Olive Drab
with noseart of a bird delivering a big bomb with the script "The
Swoose - 1944 Model - IT FLYS".
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B-17G-45-BO
s/n 42-97328, "Heaven's Above", 561BS/388BG Knettishall AB, UK in
April 1945. Aircraft is overall bare metal with partial sexy noseart
(the top half has yet to be applied or it was painted over with white.
This B-17 completed the war with over 100 missions completed and there are a
huge number of mission markings on the side as well as 2 kill markings for
aircraft it's crew shot down.
Click on
images below to see larger images
The quality of these decals is of
very good quality. The decals themselves are clearly printed and in
perfect register. Some decals come in 2 layers to ensure perfect
registration. The instructions are well laid out and provides
background information about the markings on each aircraft. The
instructions also include a page on the differences between the 1/72 kits.
You can purchase these decals
either directly from Lifelike
Decals at fax number is
+81-3-5680-6733, and e-mail is lifelike@eos.ocn.ne.jp.
or from HobbyLink Japan.
Other shops that stock Life like
Decals are *Hannants/UK, *Mister Kit/Italy, *Revi (publisher)/Czech Republic, *SkyGrid/Canada,
*Roll Models/USA, *Great Models Webstore/USA, *FlightDecs/Canada,
*Victory Models/USA
*M & Models/USA, *Zed
Hobbies/Australia, *AB
&S Enterprise/Australia, *Desert Miniature/USA
I was pleased to see
the B-17's included on this decal sheet, but my favorite would be the bare metal
"Heaven's Above".
Steve
I would like to
thank Lifelike
Decals for
providing me with this review sample.
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