It has been more than a year since I built a 47% scale-model, scratch-built, of the familiar B-17 Side-Gun Ammo-Box, before I even knew what it was:
The one I modeled is apparently as used on the original B-17C and B-17D; that box was revised for the B-17E and B-17F.
it took me a year to actually identify through Smithsonian NASM, and my first order for copies of the drawings had got lost in the mail, which I found out two months later! NASM, however, processed my replacement order in record time; I placed a new order in the mail on January 2, and they arrived Tuesday January 22!
Stack of 5 full-size drawings in living room
I've been really excited (although "excited" at my age is not as "tingly" as it was in my youth!) since receiving these; much to study, and much to figure out, and more research on the web, but I've already begun to figure out things, by "putting 2 + 2 together," that would normally only be found digging through Boeing change orders in the actual Boeing Archives!
Should be able to update a few touches on the side-gun box, and eventually make models of the two others, which are hardly known, and I've never come across more than one photo of one of those rare items.
Regards, John
The one I modeled is apparently as used on the original B-17C and B-17D; that box was revised for the B-17E and B-17F.
it took me a year to actually identify through Smithsonian NASM, and my first order for copies of the drawings had got lost in the mail, which I found out two months later! NASM, however, processed my replacement order in record time; I placed a new order in the mail on January 2, and they arrived Tuesday January 22!
Stack of 5 full-size drawings in living room
I've been really excited (although "excited" at my age is not as "tingly" as it was in my youth!) since receiving these; much to study, and much to figure out, and more research on the web, but I've already begun to figure out things, by "putting 2 + 2 together," that would normally only be found digging through Boeing change orders in the actual Boeing Archives!
Should be able to update a few touches on the side-gun box, and eventually make models of the two others, which are hardly known, and I've never come across more than one photo of one of those rare items.
Regards, John
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