For those interested in further background of this project 10 years ago.
Ron has provided the same model to others to Beta build:
Side-by-Side B-17G Beta Build
As can be seen, it was just as a convoluted saga with variable results. All of us enthusiastically tried to build it right.
Ultimately, Ron died from Brain cancer during the builds ( this in my opinion caused lots of friction with others and myself as his personality became more aggressive and short tempered ) . The project was given/ donated to Ruben.
http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/215889-post456.html
Ruben did not proceed any further( to my knowledge ) with the project as it needed additional work, and corrections......... The project somehow ended up in discussions of donations to the Cancer society or cancer research......if and when the project was ready for release.
In any case, this B-17 was not ready for publication/release.
I scrapped my build years ago.
Isaac