Boeing B-17G from the motion picture "The Biggest Bundle of Them All" (F-BGSP) 1/72 Academy

Don't know if this ex-warbird qualifies as a civil aircraft, but it certainly was in civil register during the filming of the 60's crime comedy "The Biggest Bundle of Them All". The plane was owned by French Institut Géographique National at that time and later it was featured also in the motion picture "Memphis Belle". A concise history of the original "Pink Lady" can be read from here:
www.thepinklady.fr


This is how "Pink Lady" looked like in the final sequences of the film, a very dirty and mishandled old bomber. Fortunately it was mostly just painted and weathered to look like that, not really waiting for scrapping.




Building this model was a very funny excercise, as real airliners get never this dirty and mean. All painting and weathering was done by freehand airbrush.



There weren't any really good shots of the underside of the plane, but it looked probably something like this.







This is a fairly accurate model reproduction of the film plane, but it still looks a bit boring. No doubt a B-17 in French geographic institute livery has to be built too!