Global Scale Modeller

Here is my entry in to this g b
got to put the pics up quick because iam of for the weekend in the caravan , back sun eve .

she is a biggie

there is not that much to it realy , there is an option to put a moter in and have a working undercarrage .

well thats it for now , history to follow .
my grandson has asked me can he have it when ive finished it to put up on his bedroom .
thats solved my storage problem.

Wow!! That's a BIG bird....30" wing span! I built one of these when I was a teenager, but that was in 1/144th scale, half the size of this one, and that took up a lot of space. I really enjoyed painting the multi-colored camouflage scheme and then making her look mean with tons of bombs on the undersides of the wings.

Enjoy building her mate, I'll be following this one closely

Cheers
Martin

This is a monster! Must be one of the largest 1/72 kits out there Btw, you can add more than 1 pic into each post. Will save you some hassle

thats going to be a huge model!

I'll look forward to seeing your progress, are you planning on fitting the motor?

Really looking forward to this as I have a B52 kit in the loft.

Looks like a cracker of a kit.

Good luck with your build Martin. Will be great to see a 'BUFF'.

Wow ! I see, that will be a bit of fun Good luck mate

What a beast! Gonna be a Cracker!

Aren't you the brave one! You're going to need a bigger desk for that fella!

Couldn't have Vietnam GB without a B-52 BUFF !

Good luck with this one mate

Holy moly thats huge no wonder my dad kept it in mint condition unbuild.. Someday I really need to ask my dad to build with me

Jeez! that's "The" Bird, no more words

Good luck with this one. Will enjoy following your build.

I was looking at these yesterday @ Farnborough Modelfest... One day...

For starters there is no need to put each picture into a seperate post. This just makes the thread very difficult to read and follow. If your pasting the IMG link from Photobucket, just paste as many as you want into a single post. Thanks.

Secondly, I am looking forward to seeing this come to life. The B-52 is a monster!

Thats gonna be huge! I can't wait to see this finished.

Back in 1969, when I was 10 years old, we went to an airshow at Westover AFB in Chicopee, Mass. My dad had been stationed there just after I was born (with the 99th bombardment wing) and we still lived close by. I only have a few photos from that day, one is of the plane I'm going to build for this GB, the KC-135A, and one is yours. They are both the stereotypical family photos; crooked and not centered. Granted, with the camera we had getting the B-52 in frame was a challenge!
I hope you don't mind my sharing this one with you.

here we go then , this has been a crap day for me been trying to put up the history and pics of my build to date but i have
tried twice so far after typing loads and down loading photos prest preview and bang its gone , took me back to the log in site . i dont have that much know how about computer to find it again so iam going to skip the history bit for now because it takes me forever one finger typing .
so on with the build i started with the office not a lot of detail here , pilots have there seats moulded to there rear ends ,
the decals had to be trimed right back to the print due to the large overhang .
primed with ak grey primer then painted with tam yellow green xf 4, with revell aqua silver grey .



all done .



next up was the under cart this has to be done now or you will not get it in as you will see
painted in revell aqua alluminun and abit of silver .




tryes primed and flat spots made painted in tam xf85 rubber black


next i fitted the wheel tubs in the fuslarge no need to paint these will not be seen ,
dry fitted under cart and wheels and taped it together see how it sits and to see what fit issues i will have










thancks for looking there will be a history lesson to follow

Sorry, no pics to be seen

We want pics, we want pics!

A nice build Martin and a huge bird , I saw the pictures in the weekend , problems with PhotoBucket ?

Cant see pictures too...

here are the pics that went walk about some where .
not sure what iam doing wrong.
the kit

cockpit.







under cart , this has to be done now as you will see.







under cart in place now you can see.


the coming together of the two.

dry fitted with the wheels .


all taped up


after the glue has done its bit the tape comes of.




if this posts ok iam sorrey about the lack of the writing but just trying some thing .

That's a big bird mate, but nice work so far

a quick update . after joining the two halves together .
i joined the tail feathers together no probs there .



on this pic you can see the walk way up the side of the tail , witch is a whopping 48ft tall.





b52-d spec

take off weight 420,000 to 450,000 lbs (225 tons)
speed 650 mph
thrust per engine 10,000lbs
unrefueled range more then 6,000 miles .
refueled range virtually unlimited with the aid of the
KC130 aerial-refueling tankers.
altitude more then 50,000ft (nearly 10miles)
dimensions wingspan 185ft
sweepback 35 degrees
length 156ft
tail height 48ft
crew 6
armament four 0.50ins guns in a bosch arma md-9 rear turret , with lock on radar fire control

if all goes well it should look like this when its all done .



thats all for now thanks for looking .

Pilots and cockpit look good. This going to be one big model
Just finished reading Command and Control by Eric Schlosser (about nukes) and he mentions these planes few times, saying that when needed to to start engines in the hurry they jump start them with small explosive charges

Great looking camo-scheme, good luck doing it and can't wait to see it done