Lifelike Decals

1/72 Boeing B-17 Pt 2 decal sheet

Decal sheet product # 72-015

Product Article by Steve Bamford on Feb 17 2010

 

This latest release from Lifelike Decals features four different B-17's.  This is Part 2 of  a series dealing with the B-17 during WW2. 

The 4 aircraft all include B-17's with colourful nose art and all these B-17's are the later G model with the larger number of guns.

  • B-17G-30-BO s/n 42-31886, "Amazing Maizie", 32BS/301BG Lucerna, Italy in April 1944.  Aircraft is overall Olive Drab with sexy noseart of a blonde in a  short blue dress with the script "Amazing Maizie". 

  • B-17G-20-BO s/n 42-31452, "Fifty Packing Mama", 20BS/2BG Amendola, Italy in the spring of 1944.  Aircraft is overall Olive Drab with cartoon noseart of a big woman blasting away with a 50 cal machine gun with the script "Fifty Packing Mama". 

  • B-17G-25-BO s/n 42-31844, "The Swoose", 772BS/463BG Celone AB, Italy in September 1944.  Aircraft is overall light and badly faded Olive Drab with noseart of a bird delivering a big bomb with the script "The Swoose - 1944 Model - IT FLYS". 

  • B-17G-45-BO s/n 42-97328, "Heaven's Above", 561BS/388BG Knettishall AB, UK in April 1945.  Aircraft is overall bare metal with partial sexy noseart (the top half has yet to be applied or it was painted over with white.  This B-17 completed the war with over 100 missions completed and there are a huge number of mission markings on the side as well as 2 kill markings for aircraft it's crew shot down. 

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The quality of these decals is of very good quality.  The decals themselves are clearly printed and in perfect register.  Some decals come in 2 layers to ensure perfect registration.  The instructions are well laid out and provides background information about the markings on each aircraft.  The instructions also include a page on the differences between the 1/72 kits.

You can purchase these decals either directly from Lifelike Decals at fax number is +81-3-5680-6733, and e-mail is lifelike@eos.ocn.ne.jp. or from HobbyLink Japan.    

Other shops that stock Life like Decals are *Hannants/UK, *Mister Kit/Italy, *Revi (publisher)/Czech Republic, *SkyGrid/Canada, *Roll Models/USA, *Great Models Webstore/USA, *FlightDecs/Canada, *Victory Models/USA
*M & Models/USA, *
Zed Hobbies/Australia, *AB &S Enterprise/Australia, *Desert Miniature/USA 

I was pleased to see the B-17's included on this decal sheet, but my favorite would be the bare metal "Heaven's Above". 

Steve

I would like to thank Lifelike Decals for providing me with this review sample.

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford