Saxon's B-57G ***COMPLETED***

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Saxon's B-57G ***COMPLETED***

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Going with the Testors boxing of the Italeri B-57G, a difficult subject to find so snapped it up a while ago when I saw it.

Here is pic of Box art, the box has a number of photos of the actual built kit which I have always quite liked for reference purposes.

http://www.scalemates.com/products/prod ... ?id=143049;

Sprue shots - http://www.scalemodelnews.com/2013/05/d ... tin-b.html;

The kit comes with WW2 era bombs for the bomb bay, it should be M117's or M35's so will replace the WW2 era ones with M117's from the spares.
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Welcome aboard Saxon. This is excellent, I didn't expect two B57s in the build and I look forward to seeing this one. It will be interesting to see how this kit builds up compared to the B57B being built by David (Lancfan).
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Saxon,

Although Vietnam is not my thang, I will be watching this one with interest as I bought the Italeri boxing of that kit as well. I quite fancy doing it in the European one colour scheme from the '80s (which is what the Italeri box art makes it looks like it's in, to my eye).

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Thanks Shaun.

Martin - I didn't know the B-57G had a Euro scheme, the Testors boxing only has the Vietnam colours. I have seen some in an overall grey though, that looked pretty cool.

Well after a day of building here are some pics, the first two are before I put on the ALP's (Annoying Little Pieces) of which there are a few of and what makes it worse is not many of them have locator dots, I noticed from the box art that the builder even left some off! The second lot of pics is after the ALP's have been applied and the wheel bays painted.

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She is well underway, look at that!
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Saxon wrote:
Martin - I didn't know the B-57G had a Euro scheme, the Testors boxing only has the Vietnam colours. I have seen some in an overall grey though, that looked pretty cool.
Sorry, Saxon! Re-reading my post made me realise I was clearly expecting you to pick up my mind beams; that's generally a bad way to write! What I should have written was, I quite fancy doing mine as a "Whatif" in European One. I don't think they ever wore that scheme in reality.

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Don't be confusing the team Martin, that's my job :ha:

Impressive start Saxon, that looks a hell of a lot more like an aircraft than my effort currently does!
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Quick work and looking good too.
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Thanks guys, it is a pretty good kit, one annoying thing is a lack of locator tabs for the ALP's, even on the box photo the modeller has left some parts off.

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So here is where I am at, the darkest Green and brown on first will do the med green next and tighten up camo if it doesn't look right(ish).

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Oh wow, you're going great guns on this Saxon and it's looking great. Your GBL, on the other hand, hasn't even finished his cockpit yet :oops:
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Quick work and looking good Saxon. 8-)

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That camo is looking good.
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Quick work and a nice job on the camo.
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I like the softness you gave the camo.
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