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B-17 Flying Fortress Model Kit

Fail

Shoppers spend an estimated $42K a year here, so B-17 Flying Fortress Model Kit is a Fail.

Flapen Score
49
49 / 100
Top 34% of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · +3 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$42K/yr58K searches / yr
90-day growth
-18.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
43%top-5 click share · 20 brands · 87 sellers

Flapen Score

B-17 Flying Fortress Model Kit against its category

The dotted line is the Arts, Crafts & Sewing average. Past it, B-17 Flying Fortress Model Kit is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

49Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The B-17 Flying Fortress Model Kit market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for B-17 Flying Fortress Model Kit 58K times last year and spent an estimated $42K. The top 5 brands take 63% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 58K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -18.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $42K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
58K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-18.1%
Conversion, latest week
1.3%
Market size, estimated
$42Ka year
Peak month
December2.5× the quietest month
Top search term
b-17 flying fortress model kit6K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $53.77.

Listings sell for $53.77 on average, from $11.07 to $192.59. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 500 to 750 a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $53.77 that is $0 to $5K a year per listing.

Average price
$53.77inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$11.07–$192.59
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
500–750
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$5K
Returns
1.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

50% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 74% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #1,883 within Model & Hobby Building. It carries 239 reviews at 4.43 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
50%
Prime listings
74%
Out of stock, average day
4.5%
Average rank
#1,883in Model & Hobby Building
Average rating
4.43 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
239per listing
Listings tracked
34

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 62 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
62 months

Products

Top B-17 Flying Fortress Model Kit products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 43% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

20 falling

Sellers

87

Top-5 brand share

63%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

43%

Top 20: 89%

Open market

30%

  • Brand 129%
  • Brand 211%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 58%
  • Brand 67%

Demand

B-17 Flying Fortress Model Kit search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

2K2KBlack Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.5×

Search terms

Top B-17 Flying Fortress Model Kit search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • b-17 flying fortress model kit6K/yr
  • b-1710K/yr
  • b17 model7K/yr
  • b17 flying fortress9K/yr
  • b-17 flying fortress8K/yr
  • b17 flying fortress model kit2K/yr
  • b17 bomber4K/yr
  • b-17 model4K/yr
  • b-17 model kit4K/yr
  • b17 model airplane kit3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about B-17 Flying Fortress Model Kit

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

33%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
1.2%of orders come back
“Pieces do not fit properly”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”20% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common B-17 Flying Fortress Model Kit questions

Answered from the same tracked data.