Bomber Command Dave Challenge

[moon puppy]

Dave has been pesterin' me about his weekly challenge, that's cool, need something to recharge the mojo. I was thinking about whippin' something out for Bomber Command but wasn't sure what I have that could be done in that time frame.

Took a quick look over the stock this am and saw I have the 1:72 YB-49 from Italeri.

So you guys who have build this in the past, think it's a week long build or not? :woohoo:

 

[Old Dog]

I have not built it but an aircraft that size in NMF would take me a week just to put the finish on.

 

[moon puppy]

Would a WIF work? How would it look in SEA? :hmmm

 

[Old Dog]

Probably something like this...

 

[moon puppy]

With an ECM pod hangin' off it.

The Alclad Black Base dries pretty quick Gary, I might be able to pull this off if construction goes easy.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Italiari aircraft kit, mmmmm :gogo

 

[helios]

My Italeri Jaguar fit together well. My biggest gripe with that kit was the landing gear didn't really look like the real thing.

 

[SA Dave]

Oooh I got to Bob :evil: Mwhuhahahahaha

That will look awesome as a bomber colors.
Plus I get to do a kit I did about 36 years ago after my grandpa gave it to me as a Xmass prezie

 

[SA Dave]

here is the kit I plan on doing Really looking forward to it as it was one of the kits I remember doing and I can still remember beeing very proud of it.

 

[razordws]

Hmph... Might have something for this! :hmmm

We have to the end of the month?

 

[SA Dave]

Yes we have mate welcome to the party - I HOPE

 

[razordws]

I was thinking of doing the ancient Beaufort kit and even posted a start up photo for it but after digging through the parts I had second thoughts. Way too much clean up on it for a quick build. (ie: carving parts out of the blobs on the sprues)


So, after digging through my stash some more I came up with this. Higher part count but not too much canopy masking and no crazy turrets to slow me down. So here we go.

 

[SA Dave]

Thats a real nice Mozzie bomber Dave

 

[razordws]

Some assembly and interior green slathered on everything.

 

[moon puppy]

 

[moon puppy]

Arm up Dave, I'll have my startup photo in the AM.

 

[razordws]

Arm up Dave, I'll have my startup photo in the AM.

 

[SA Dave]

Oh I have been working on mine Pictures to follow tonight

 

[moon puppy]

We gonna build them here?

Or start a new thread?

 

[Skinny_Mike]

We gonna build them here?

Or start a new thread?

Good luck Bob! I helped out on a group build for one of these, kind of a consultant if you will (long story). The fit is not great. You can probably knock this out in a week, but there will be a lot of fill/sand/repeat.

BTW - if you use Tamiya Gloss Black from the spray can instead of the Alclad Black Base, it dries much quicker.

HTH - Mike