1/72 Italeri B-52G, Hound Dog

[CANicoll]

Hi all!  I'm kinda back.  Too much having gone on and going on to get into, so let's jump into this build.  A friend has a huge collection of mostly diecast planes but does not have a B-52.  We are trading this build for a nice Burbon (of which I have so little knowledge to be useless on the subject).  But my friend has over 500 bottles and knows his stuff.

Sorry to be so absent - I'm sure I've missed a lot of what you all have going on. Have missed you all!

Here is the kit, however I will be doing one out of Barksdale AFB in SEA camo:

I debated on the Italeri or the Modelcollect but my friend bought the Italeri kit so here we go.

This thing is MASSIVE.. OMG.  There is literally NO detail in the bomb bays, and the early G's did not have wing pylons for bombs.  Just the nuclear Hound Dog missiles which were never used in Vietnam.  But my friend wants the missiles, so...

The build will be showing 'in-flight' and I'm thinking of printing off an aerial shot of a Vietnam bomb run and having this 'fly' over the picture, attached to a picture/display frame.  More on this later...

Kinda disappointed in the cockpit, but it is 1/72 so it is not as bad as it could be.  However, it turns out I used the wrong IP.  There were 2: One flat panel intended for use with the IP decal, and a panel with the raised gauges, switches, displays, etc.  Yeah, I used that one for the decal with tons of setting solution.  However, in this scale, through the cockpit windows, will anything be seen??

Isn't that nice!  They had a bed in the cockpit... 

Since my friend wanted the missiles, here they are, getting their camo. 

I'm primarily using MRP paints but could not get the Flat Dark Green in MRP so thought I would try the AK Interactive paints.  I can't decide if that is a mistake or not.  I failed to ready any reviews before I bought a couple of bottles of the Dark Green (did I mention this is a huge plane??).  Lots of reports of sputtering even with thinning, that the paint doesn't thin well with their own thinner, and various concoctions of other thinners, retarders and what-have-you.  I bit the bullet, thinned it about 50% with the AK thinner and stirred the heck out of it.  Still seemed to separate in the cup.  Weird.  However, the Dark Green, despite sputtering a lot while spraying, seems to have sprayed pretty smoothly.

Anyone have thoughts about the AK paints?

More to come!

[Landlubber Mike]

Welcome back Chris!  That model must be massive!  Cool that you are building it for a friend.