1/72 Modelcollect B-52G Early, Linebacker II

[CANicoll]

Sorry, gents.  I am seriously behind on posting this build.  Here is the latest.  Closed up the fuselage.  Big seams between the sections and again, not having really decent connection points between the halves was difficult.  I'm thinking a better strategy is to put each side together first, then join the two sides together.

I had to use the Pano mode on my phone to capture the entire fuselage, but now none of those photos, even at 1.8Mb, will upload.  So here is a view of the underside of the left wing with its dark gray color and the black pre-shading.  You get a glimpse of the fuselage and the join line just to the right of the fuel tank on the wing.  The nose to main-body join was better.

Here are the elevators.  On the left is the underside of the left elevator, and the right is the top-side green camo color with the black pre-shading showing through.  Once I get the fuselage painted, I'll match up the coloring.  These are MRP paints, which just go down so nicely.  The pre-shading is Vallejo Black primer.

I decided to add the Italeri Hound Dog missile pylons to this build, but the profile was not a good fit.  Did some work with the sanding sticks and got them pretty close but the front of the pylon was off the wings.  A bit of Vallejo white acrylic putty hopefully will fill the join.  Letting it cure for a few days (unnecessary probably but why not) before I paint it the color of the pylons.

The white tac arrived today so am looking at using that to mask the camo, or else buy a LOT of tape...  Might go the tape route...

Thanks for looking!

Chris

 

 

[CANicoll]

Here are some shots I took on my dining room table.  This thing is BIG...  It will be hung from a ceiling showing off the open bomb bay and the 27 bombs!

First getting the pre-shading done, piece by piece.  I actually don't have room on my workbench to assemble the plane, forget in my spray booth!  This will be interesting...

Had not pre-shaded the tail fin when I took these...

[Martinnfb]

Whoa, nice progress Chris. That thing is massive, hard to believe it's 1/72 scale.

Cheers

Martin

[PanzerWomble]

Mahoosive BUFF ! I don't envy you painting it , did a friend's 1/72 Globemaster once as a favour , airbrush compressor was red hot half way through . 

[BlrwestSiR]

That's a big plane. Thr paintwork so far looks great. 

GPM, a paper model company does (did?) a 1/33 Buff which I briefly entertained the thought of trying. The promo pic had a little girl holding the finished model with its 8' wingspan. 

[CANicoll]

On 1/9/2026 at 12:44 AM, Martinnfb said:

Whoa, nice progress Chris. That thing is massive, hard to believe it's 1/72 scale.

Cheers

Martin

I know!!! Put a P-51 next to it!