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Early Boeing B17D Flying Fortress for Fs9

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Shessi

SOH-CM-2025
Hi Folks,
Started new thread, finally finished the B17D model!!...:topsy_turvy:

With the testers, so not long before uploading (don't ask please! ;)).

Cheers

Shessi
 

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B17D cockpit

Hi Shessi,
in my unfinished projects are still a cockpit for the early B-17 variants.
I never finished it as I was not shure that they represented really the early layout.
can you provide me some docs, interior views of the early b-17 models?
Yours
Papi
 
Sweet!

I'm especially pleased to see a pre-camo version.

This will very nicely fill the gap between Paul Clawson's YB-17 and the big-tailed wartime versions.
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This one takes some finesse, not to mention skill. She's a challenge to get off the ground but once in the air... what a beauty. Thanks Shessi and all involved for this superb representation of the B-17 in it's early years.

BB686:US-flag:
 
It wasn't up when I first looked Hurricane91 thought my old eyes were going out! Looks good Shessi off to give it a test flight...
 
Cheers guys!

Well many thanks to the defunct FDG2 team coz it wouldn't be here without them..and thanks to Jamie (JDT) who had the GMAX source files buried deep in a dusty HDD...

Hi Mav, good to see you about :wavey:


Cheers

Shessi
 
I may have to take some time from our current project to paint some pre-war skins for this beautiful bird.

Army airplanes of that time tended to look an awful lot alike (unlike the Navy, where no two planes of the same type in the fleet were painted the same) but there were a few differences among some planes. And since Shessi has done the basic background colors and the national insignia, all it will require is some markings changes and perhaps the addition of a unit insignia. We'll see what might be done.

Speaking of unit markings, for those interested in such matters, the olive drab plane in the download belonged to the 7th Bombardment Group, based at Hamilton Field, northern California in late 1941 (after having been at March Field in southern California for many years.) The silver bird belonged to the 30th Bombardment Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group, based at Clark Field, PI, at the time of the Japanese attack.
 
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