Hi, this morning in a market of my city, I have seen on a counter a big aluminum model of a Boeing B-17F had a very lived. I managed to buy it. Despite being a passionate aviation and model, having also different models metal and more, I had never seen a model of its kind.
When I got home I took his measures 435 mm wingspan and 310 mm in length, I calculated the scale that is close to 1/72
The man who sold it to me said it was sawed off from a platform of aeronautics. I do not know establish the origin certain seems a casting of aluminum on a mold of sand bivalves on the basis of a previous wooden model.
I think it isn't an artifact of Italian origin, there is no writing or stamps. I can hypothesize that it is a model made by the Americans stationed in Sardinia after the armistice with Italy or after the second world war.
I think this model is very old and is not an industrial product