How to build the Airfix B-17G Flying Fortress in 1/72 scale

How to build the Airfix B-17G Flying Fortress in 1/72 scale - HD 1080p

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In this video I'm looking inside the box of the 1/72 scale Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress from Airfix. Is it something you'd like to build? Have a look here at what you get!
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@thesmokepit_wtfnr 4 ай бұрын

It’s a much better kit than the academy kit! Looks awesome!

@marksinthehouse1968 2 жыл бұрын

I echo other comments can believe the amount of detail you have to build for the interior compared to when me and mum built one in the 70s she taught me how to assemble kits and paint ,she built me a revel L1011 tristar it had a cutaway side to show the interior and she painted each seat individually over 200 and in TWA livery when I was 7 around 1974 nice she sometimes looks at this channel ,superb

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's a labour of love - all the seats on a TriStar!!! Hope she's keeping well.

@marksinthehouse1968 2 жыл бұрын

@@garys_stuff she is mate bless her ,thank you 😊

@johnclarke25 2 жыл бұрын

Didn't realise it was a new tool,still got one to build from when I bought it in 78,better get my finger out,great videos always fun to watch.

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, new-ish tool. Airfix are doing well with many of these. Looking forward to the 1/48 Anson later this year!

@MisterHampshire 2 жыл бұрын

The Buccaneer for me.

@glyndaley5844 5 ай бұрын

Air fix should do the kit in clear plastic to let us do a cut away to show the detail etc !

@shanemills3879 4 ай бұрын

Great build. It makes the original Airfix B17 with that incredible Roy Cross artwork look somewhat sad when comparing them, but in it's day it was State of The Art. If I hadn't committed myself by purchasing the Revell B17G last year, I'd snap one up tomorrow

@shanemills3879 4 ай бұрын

PS shame they didn't offer the "A Bit'O Lace" nose art for nostalgia

@AlanWitton 2 ай бұрын

Great kit and great build Gary! I hope you are well

@woody3590 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely stunning job.I am in my 5th year of modeling (retired) and have myself quite a hobby shop in the basement. My wife likes it because she knows where I am haha I can put togeather these models and have the patience required but I come up short on the air brushing. I am just learning how to weather and bring out rivets. I have ruined a few models. I guess its more reading and practicing on junk models to get it right!! Nice job again CHEERS

@garys_stuff 9 ай бұрын

If you want to practice panel washing and weathering, maybe get some starter sets when they come out again just before Xmas at Aldi and Lidl? They tend to too for about £7 each. They are also useful for practicing airbrushing. The Zero is actually a really nice kit!

@woody3590 9 ай бұрын

Thank You I will@@garys_stuff

@zetectic7968 Жыл бұрын

So much detail and drastically different to 1 I built in the 1970's. A cracking result 😁

@garys_stuff Жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

@arleighburke9095 5 ай бұрын

Nice build - however, I always want to scream “NOOOOO!!” every time I see someone putting exhaust stains coming out of the intercooler vents …… That’s just hot air being vented out of the wings - no soot!

@garymoore2674 Жыл бұрын

I think Airfix got the cockpit colours wrong.Having checked Google and building the old Monogram 1/48 it should be US Interior Green.HK Models show this as well

@lesthiele4921 2 жыл бұрын

That sir, turned out perfectly, well done, even in 1/72nd scale it is a big bird, greetings from Australia.

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Les, greetings from Pommie-land!

@ramonrodriguezadam3584 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful model. Great weathering touches. Cheers, Gary 👋🏼

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ramon!

@braddechion4343 7 ай бұрын

Well done on the model and thw video. I'll be making one of these eventually, as my skills improve. A family member was a pilot aboard one during the war and I have pictures of the aircraft markings and nose art (with him in the window waving). I'm holding off until I can do it justice. (Plus i still have to source some custom decals for it to make sure the markings are accurate)

@helmutquad1960 2 жыл бұрын

Hi! I remember the B17 called " A bit o lace" with very less interior but pilots and Machineguns personnels in it! Greetings and best wishes!

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Helmut! Pity they don't have all the crew these days...

@petermerz2704 2 жыл бұрын

Nice build Garry! Happy days and model on! 😎

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Peter!

@jameshall6147 Жыл бұрын

Nice build

@danielcgomez 2 жыл бұрын

Looking great Gary!

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Tanks Daniel!

@iannicholls7476 2 жыл бұрын

Great build Gary and a big thumbs up from me. A couple of points- what paint are you using for spraying and what is your thinner to paint ratio? Also you highlighted the engine piping in brass and made a nice job of it. Have you got any tips for this and detail brush painting in general? I’m guessing your figure painting has given you experience with this but it’s something I always make a mess of.

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ian! Most of my paint is Vallejo - the metal spray was their Metal Color set. You lay down the black gloss first then the metal on top. Straight out of the bottles, as the metal is pre-thinned. Otherwise I tend to use a few drops of thinner with any spray - you can guess the amount by looking at how thin the paint is from the bottle. Some, like their dark earth, don't really need any thinning. I think the ratio normally is about 1 drop thinner to 10 drops of paint (if it's model air) - more thinner if it's model colour. With details I tend to use old favourite brushes. Use very little paint but have it reasonably thick - it helps avoid overspill. Best thing to practice is dry brushing, where you kind of skim the brush over the detail in relief, This on a smaller scale is how you can follow things like fuel lines. One final thing is to use a panel was or something like it - it helps bring out details and the wash tends to hide the errors! However, the thing I've found most is that it depends on hat you want to do with he kit. Don't sweat doing every tiny bit of detail unless you really want to. I'm more of a 'smoke and mirrors' kind of painter where the detail is almost suggested rather than actually there. If you watch one of the figure painting videos (next Friday's will be good) then you'll see what I mean.

@markbaigent8373 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoy your videos and like that you name the parts ie “supercharger “. As for the aircraft I often wonder if if each had been two mosquitoes instead. Same payload, less crew, probably better survival rates and imagine the swarm effect on German defenders of two thousand mosquitoes arriving.

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Would have been a lot of Mossies! I guess the American point of view is that daylight bombing allows better accuracy (especially with their bomb sights), which then requires a long stable run-in to target when you treat your most vulnerable. So chuck on a baker's dozen of .50 cal guns to defend yourself.

@markbaigent8373 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I get the theory, just pondering 🤔

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Don't know if you know the Grim Reapers on YT, they use a program called DCS to fight various scenarios, they do at least one a week based on WW2. It's the kind of thing they would probably try out!

@jonarnett9416 4 ай бұрын

Great video. I'm helping my son build this kit right now. How do you glue your parts? Everything seems to be painted first. That has been our biggest question in general. Please let me know!

@garys_stuff 4 ай бұрын

Regular polystyrene cement for the bigger bits and extra thin cement for the more delicate ones. I've never had an issue with paint already being on bits. But you can always sand any contact surfaces before assembly.

@fqwarrior Жыл бұрын

Great video Gary. I came across your video because I was in half a mind on how to handle the ball turret. Good to see it fitted in the end even after closing up the two fuselage parts! I will go this route I think. Not sure about your fits in the end but on dry fit of the two fuselage parts, I have gaps in the nose area by the cockpit and also below by the bomb bay. Can't really see where I have gone wrong as looking in every part seems to sit where it should. Was yours a clean fit all the way?

@garys_stuff Жыл бұрын

Yes pretty much. I think I had a slight issue getting the fuselage together in the nose just in front of the cockpit but elsewhere seemed OK.

@fqwarrior Жыл бұрын

@@garys_stuff ok thanks. That's consistent then. I guess underneath by the bomb bay not so critical but more putty will fix that.

@davroshalfbeard8368 2 жыл бұрын

Nice job mate its a lot different from the old airfix kit from what i remember used to paint the clear parts free hand lol

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate! I do occasionally do freehand painting of the transparencies, but I try to avoid it as the old caffeine-induced shaky hand doesn't help!

@audeamus1180 2 жыл бұрын

Same here after a glass or two of port. 🤣

@richieburrelltractionengin7801 Жыл бұрын

Love it 🙂

@garys_stuff Жыл бұрын

Thanks Richie!

@richieburrelltractionengin7801 Жыл бұрын

Your welcome love the B17Gs I'm planning on doing a Diorama airfield 😊

@duncanling2127 2 жыл бұрын

Stunning detail gary shame must of it is lost :(: did you dry brush the radios or are the all decals ? I’ve done the Raf version becuse I didn’t fancy masking the ball turret even with the Eduard masks lol

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, most of the interior detail is dry brushed. There are only a couple of decals for the radio stuff - up by the cockpit.

@duncanling2127 2 жыл бұрын

@@garys_stuff awesome work as usual :))

@ianwilliams9127 2 жыл бұрын

Great build mate. Interesting that some of the fuselage structure is in clear plastic did this cause issues with painting? I've had a few minor probs with this sort of model part as the final paint job tended to be slightly different in contrast to the paint of the "normal" plastic. Did you notice anything like that? If so how did you compensate? Thanks for a great watch my friend, 10/10.

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ian! I think it depends to a degree on the paint. I have seen this issue in the past when brush painting metallics. In this kit I used the Vallejo metal color system which is a gloss black primer followed by the metallic which seems a lot thinner than, say, aluminium model air paint. Looking at the kit now I can't really tell from the texture where the transparency ends, even though I know where it is! I've only just started with this metallic system and I like it a lot.

@ianwilliams9127 2 жыл бұрын

@@garys_stuff Thanks mate. I think I had the paint mix a little too thin. It's all a learning curve ain't it? LOL.

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Certainly is! You just get to know the paints you're working with after a while - it's why I think people tend to stick with the same thing for years. Its the little tweaks that make life easier!

@warwickdenning3979 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice build .What do you use to glue clear parts.

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Warwick! I use Revell Contact Clear at the moment - I have used Micro Kristal Clear as well in the past. I find the Revell is better if you've got larger pieces as you can let it dry a bit and it retains its tackiness. MKK is better for replacing lost small transparencies as it dries absolutely clear, but I find it thicker to use.

@user-gu9mv2pv5e Жыл бұрын

Hey Gary, I was wondering whats the Numbers for all the paints? I cant really find out, I'm going to get some common numbers (30,33) spray paints, and aluminum. Also any tips for the B17 as im going to get it soon if i get anymore info. Thanks!

@user-gu9mv2pv5e Жыл бұрын

Also what tool's you would recommend? 9:37 What oil do you mean?

@garys_stuff Жыл бұрын

The oil was Vallejo engine oil - the closest equivalent these days is probably Vallejo Engine 73.813. It's an acrylic (water soluble) wash that gives the effect of oil staining. For the fuselage I used Vallejo Metal Color 77.701 aluminium, also 71.002 medium yellow and 71.016 US Olive Drab. The green tail bands are supplied as decals. The interior was mainly 71.010 interior green. Best of luck with the kit!

@user-wv3dg4fr8e 6 ай бұрын

What is a good airbrush kit that is not from amazon? Amazon is expensive from where I am from

@garys_stuff 6 ай бұрын

Guess it depends where you're from. You could check out the Gaahleri.com web site and see what their shipping would be to you.

@user-wv3dg4fr8e 6 ай бұрын

@@garys_stuff Thanks!

@randlerobbertson8792 2 жыл бұрын

Wow this kit bears little or no relation or resemblence to the 'bit o lace' I built sometime in the 1970s. In many ways its much better, the interior detail and the bomb bay and the spars going inside the wings is amazing but, in some ways the detailing to my eyes is a bit overdone e.g. the ball turret and the rear elevators/ rudder being separate and moveable. If you are gonna do that, they may as well have done the flaps too surely? Even so its a well built lovely model with all those machine guns poking out just begging to be snapped off. ! ... So 10/10 for the build and the masking. Back in the day I put this kit in the bracket of 3 best kits in the airfix range for detail at the time, along with the catalina with retractable wing tip floats and the B24 liberator with the movable ball turret too and full retractable undercarriage as well. My take on this build is that these kits have come on massively and the detail inside is a world apart from what I used to build love it you even get transfers for the propellers. Even so, its odd to my eyes that they will still do movable control surfaces but you dont get separate flaps you can set down which, just seems a bit of a shame to me. 10/10 for the build tho dear chap. One last comment is that if indeed this is bought for a young modeller as a gift who, doesnt actually paint the kits, this would be as much use as a 'chocolate teapot' given the key parts of the structure moulded in transparent plastic.. just an observation too . I guess therefore its only for very serious modellers and very definitely not for the kids.

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, yes I wondered why no flaps when they've gone to so much trouble elsewhere. The Lancaster has two flap positions after all...

@frankiehobby 2 жыл бұрын

How is this one compared to the Revell B-17G? Which one is better?

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Never made the Revell so I'm afraid I can't say. But the Airfix one is an enjoyable build.

@duncanling2127 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful :) I wish I had of watch your video before I made mine I made a lot of mistakes :(.

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

Duncan, it's how we learn stuff right? That's what I try to tell myself anyway... ;-)

@duncanling2127 2 жыл бұрын

@@garys_stuff very true buddy :)

@dand9495 2 жыл бұрын

Hi just wanted to ask what airbrush do you use?

@garys_stuff 2 жыл бұрын

It's a Timbertech, very much entry level but that suits me! Got it off Amazon... smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00LO4PKY2?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_T1_EKR9GDFBKKRH90QK0MQB

@dand9495 2 жыл бұрын

@@garys_stuff Ooh yes a very entry level airbrush, mine cost about the same... I wasn't as lucky as you, my cheap Chinese airbrush keeps blocking, nozzles and needles above become useless and broken... Thanks 👍

@francosultato512 Жыл бұрын

b 17 g scala 1/72 Academy

@user-zu5vi6xs4t 8 ай бұрын

Making the 1962 moulded kit no air brush no photo etch no worries about painting the wood floor being Mahogany Olive drab instead of silver , taking it to seriously 🙄

@garys_stuff 8 ай бұрын

Sometimes that's the best way to make a model. I think often we just worry too much!

@andylees2940 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for an informative vid. A lot of detail in the kit but I won’t be buying it a because the parts are way to chunky in the finer details and b the fit in many areas is v. Disappointing. Shoddy airfix design, quality control and manufacture. Such a letdown