Saxon's B-57G ***COMPLETED***
Saxon's B-57G ***COMPLETED***
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.
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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Re: Saxon's B-57G
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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Re: Saxon's B-57G
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).
regards,
Martin
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).
regards,
Martin
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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.
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.
Re: Saxon's B-57G
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.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.
regards,
Martin
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Don't be confusing the team Martin, that's my job
Impressive start Saxon, that looks a hell of a lot more like an aircraft than my effort currently does!
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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Re: Saxon's B-57G
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.
More pics soon.
More pics soon.
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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
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Re: Saxon's B-57G
Quick work and looking good Saxon.
You'll be the first across the line at this rate.
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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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