Full scale B-17 restoration project for sale

[Edward]

need a hobby? want to buy this full scale model kit in progress?! Needs work… and parts!

1941 Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress

www.platinumfighters.com

 

[ausreenactor]

At least I could see the parts!

 

[Nickb123]

That’d be a super nifty paint scheme (aluminum) to see flying around, done up like an early B-17.

 

[bazzer]

Very big model would have to sell everything and move in to the plane
Don't think the wife or kids would be up for it
Baz

 

[Brettafett]

I may want to start with something smaller, like a P-51

 

[Lorenzo_l]

That would be a very nifty post-retirement project to keep one entertained for a few years!

 

[Flightengineer]

What a long and strange fate she has.
Accidentally there is a photo when this bird worked in Bolivia as a transport plane

 

[Brettafett]

I watched a great documentary a few years back about a restoration crew from NZ, who scour the world on 'tips', finding old (mostly intact) downed WWII aircraft.
Rescuing and then restoring them, for wealthy clients. Its amazing that there are still hundreds of these gems, hidden in swamps forests and jungles out there, just waiting to be claimed.

 

[Flightengineer]

I watched a great documentary a few years back about a restoration crew from NZ, who scour the world on 'tips', finding old (mostly intact) downed WWII aircraft.
Rescuing and then restoring them, for wealthy clients. Its amazing that there are still hundreds of these gems, hidden in swamps forests and jungles out there, just waiting to be claimed.

Strange as it may seem, the swamp preserves planes well. It was in the swamp that several WW2 aircraft were found, including those that were restored to airworthiness in Russia.

 

[Brettafett]

Also the desert

 

[Smithy]

I want to buy that, stick it on the front lawn and see the look on the wife's face when I tell her that I picked up a new garden ornament!

 

[Brettafett]

Tim, you'd have to buy the neighbour's small holding next door. Convert the innards to either a man-cave or Air&bb (if that ever becomes popular again)....

 

[Flightengineer]

I want to buy that, stick it on the front lawn and see the look on the wife's face when I tell her that I picked up a new garden ornament!

Who knows Tim, who knows ... suddenly she will like it. Mine, too, was not happy when I put an airplane blade at home, but now she proudly explains to her friends on occasion that "this shiny crap gismo" is not really a piece of cool pop-art but a part of a 1939 plane.

 

[MauldinFan]

That's Paul Allen's B17E. The restoration was going on for a comically long time. For all the people involved and the time they spent, I actually wonder if they spent weeks on each nut and bolt.