Looks to me as if it’s the rear of the fuselage at the right stabilizer joint…
Concurr… Also, there’s the AAF directive that specifically forbade the use of it in the “Control Areas”…
BTW…
Don’t forget the armor plate in the waist… It was generally painted OD…
So Hans would you happen to know if the OD G models if the navi/bombadier area was painted or unpainted?? I will be doing an OD model soon.
Thanks all for the excellent information and pictures. I knew I came to the right place.
Unpainted. Exteror paint is not relevant to what colors were inside the plane.
The inside of the nose, unpainted. The flight deck, dull dark green/interior green. Bombay, neutral gray or unpainted, either way. Radio room and waist, unpainted.
I dont care what the ipms stockholm thing says, there is a lot of false info in there as far as I’m concerned. Especially that crap about early forts being yellow nose to tail.
And green zinc chromate [+o(][+o(][+o(] I hate this color. It’s just way to damn bright and out of scale looking to me.
Thanks B-17 Guy, thats what I thought… I read so much about Little Miss Mischief but didnt read into the OD G models. I have a pic of an OD G model that go hit by flak and you can easily see the portion aft of the bomb area was un painted. Thanks again… Cant wait to crack at the good ol Little Patches soon.
I disagree. In fact I would say it’s not even a B-17. For one, there is no opening for the horizontal tails like that all on a B-17.
Ipms pic that says it’s a B-17F at the douglas plant. I’d think that plane is more likely to be a C-47, maybe a C-46, but that is deffinetly NOT a B-17’s tail.
Take note of the paint demarcation line below the blonde’s right arm.
The B-17 at duxford being restored :
Starboard side:
Bump.
That’s right, I did it.
So what about the doors, were they wood like in the pictures from Fuddy Duddy or metal ?
Plywood doors.
In the G model the doors(If even put in) were taken out in Scotland at the Up-armor fields upon arriving in country. The toilet (not sure why they even purposed it) and Generator were also removed, the genies were put on skids and left at airfield and only used when at base, they plugged in just to the left of the lower antenna. these things were done to reduce weight and the doors were removed as they found out with early F models that had no cover over the radio room that with them closed the radio man could, and some were, be sucked out the top of the plane. This comes to me from Al Winant , the radio operator who flew with my wife’s grandfather on Ain’t Miss Behavin’ 1,2,3 from the 452 BG.
Have fun!!!
James
Since we’re on that subject, my Uncle Stan (B-17 tailgunner, 91st BG) told me that they used B-3 jackets and pants to line the tailgun compartment (Fleece-side out) against the cold…