I was working on the drawings for the 307 that I am trying to make. I intend to scratch the fuselage, and use the wings (with modified nacelles) and the horizontal tail. I did a Google image search today to see if I could find any more pictures that show the wing fillet well (I did find a couple more than what I had already grabbed.
The point that hit me, however, was how beautiful that plane is. It has either got to be the most beautiful airliner ever, or at least one of the top few. The only kit I know of is the Maquette kit, which I consider junk and have trashed the kit. How in the world is it that no one else, one of the decent kit mfgs, has never seen fit to kit that plane!
It is truly a beauty. I have that Maquette kit as well and it is a piece of junk. It came with a bunch of B-17 parts that look like an old Hasegawa kit. I went and bought a Colin Kelley B-17C from Academy to use. Maybe i’ll build it some day.
IIRC, the Maquette 307 kit consisted of a fuselage and all its parts designed by Maquette and the remainder of the parts (wings, engines, props, undercarriage, horizontal stabs and elevators) from a Frog B-17E kit. The Frog kit was released just a few months before Frog went belly up. I was lucky enough to find a Frog kit at one of the Nats ($5.00!!) a few years ago and was surprised to find it matched up well with the later Hasagawa B-17F.
True- it was the fuselage that was junk. It almost seemed to be made from paper mache. It lookedlike they did not get their scrap plastic mix hot enough. That and the fact that the two fuselage half molds were far from mirror images of each other. What a mis-shapened asymmetrical mess
Don’t know if your interested in collecting all things 307 but I stumbled across this in ebay. Very interesting that they were being used at this time and in this area.
