Academy B-17F Flying Fortress Memphis Belle

Reader Reviews
This model was made very poorly. The two halves of the fuselage don't fit together well at all, and required some strange clamping to cement them together. The windows don't fit well, and the wings will require quite a bit of putty to fill in the gaps. Like many models, there are a lot of spare parts that look like the parts that you will actually use. You need to be careful to use the right part. The instructions are pretty much just a series of exploded drawings with colors for the paint written in Korean and English. The English translation of the little yellow card inside with the general warnings was so poorly translated that my wife and I had quite a laugh when we read this. In short, you would be better off buying a better quality model. This isn't suitable for children, and would just frustrate most children that put it together. I think that Academy would do better with a 1/48 scale model or larger. Anything that doesn't require as much precision. Go with a Revel or a Tamiya, almost anything other than this model.