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Well, I wasn't lying! Merry Christmas everybody!

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Merry Christmas! I got a B-17!

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That's cool, we bought the "Planes" CD, gonna watch it tonight. Congratulations on your fine gift!
Merry Christmas
Robbie

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Now that's a fine Christmas gift right there! I don't even build plastic models any longer but this one and the new Tamiya 1/32 Corsair are tempting enough to make me think about getting back into it. Merry Christmas WIX'ers and best wishes for the new year.

Wonderful, please let us know what you think of it when you start building. Hang the expence can build you a replacement tailgun position if you need one.

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Am I the only one that noticed that Skippers prop turned the wrong way in the movie?

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You oughta check out Parkzone's F4U-1A...it's really sweet once you install the retracts in it.

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I just bought the Mosquito myself!


-Brandon

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Whats the wingspan on the B-17 and how detailed is the interior? I always thought the Monogram B-17 and B-29 were nice and they were just 1/48 scale. The 1/32 looks like it will be fun to detail.

How was it? I have the DVD but haven't watched it yet...

Drove me nuts.

-Tim

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Started working on it last week. You can follow the build here: http://usaircraft.proboards.com/thread/ ... 2-17-build

The kit has a 44" Wing span. It is a big one!

I see that there are already detail sets available. Seat belts, guns, engines (About $33 each!), etc. They are a bit too pricey for me though. I'm going to build this one right out of the box.

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My 6 year old son loves this movie and has all the die cast characters. We bought the Blue Ray/DVD combo and on the Blue Ray there is a making of featurette about one of the producers of the movie. It turns out that this producer's father flew F9F Panthers in Korea and was the influence of 'Skipper'. The short film shows him and his teenage sons exploring POF at Chino, and getting to sit in the cockpit of the F9F on display there as he explains to them what their grandfather did. It culminates in him getting a ride in the P-51 Spam Can with his two sons in the B-25 Photo Fanny. There's some great air to air footage. He goes on to explain that on the ground the planes in the movie could be as 'animated' as you wanted them to be, but in the air they had to behave like planes, no cartoon like bending the rules of physics. He also insisted on the in flight animation take on the feel that it was filmed by a camera along side in a photo ship to give it that feel of realism.

Also, for those of you who pay attention and like little details there is a nod to Top Gun. The fighter jets 'Bravo' and 'Echo' are played by Anthony Edwards 'Goose' and Val Kilmer 'Iceman'. They even have the same helmets they wore in Top Gun.