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! 

[CANicoll]

Sorry for the late posts.  So much going on here - but good stuff.  Getting flooring put in, which means I need to clean out the closets which entails going through boxes and (mostly) throwing stuff away that I've forgotten I had, or have not done anything with for 6-10 years.  So there is that.  Don't talk to me about picking out paint colors since now the floors will clash with the walls.  I don't think my Iwata HP-CS is up to the task.... 

Here are the wing tops with my hand-drawn camo pattern.  Not exact to the sample, but close enough.  Went through YARDS of tape however...

Underside of the wings with the Italeri pylons in place.  Still have a bit of paint touch-up to do.  The Camo colors are MRP, the dark grey underside is Vallejo Model Air.  Pre-shading was done with Vallejo black primer. 

Hoping to start working on the Fuselage camo this weekend.  We are expecting a huge winter storm on Sunday (up to a foot of snow/ice) so hopefully I can take a couple of days off and spend some time at the bench to get a respite from cleaning out the closets.  Saving the hobby room for last - not on purpose but that is going to be a huge job to clean out.

 

[CANicoll]

Making progress!  Have completed the camo on the wings and have put down the first color on the fuselage. The tape is getting ready for the second color.

Attached the engines which are an exercise in patience since there are no clear mounting points.  And where the pylon meets the wing there is a gap, and the single pin on pylon top for the inside engines was about 2mm off of where it was on the engine pylon.  Will take a bit of filler I think plus I did some paint damage gluing the pylons to the wing so will be doing some touch-up.

And, yes, this thing is BIG....

 

[BlrwestSiR]

Nice progress on the paint job. Hope the flooring is progressing too. 

How was the snow fall? We ended up with 61 cm of snow from yesterday to this morning. Apparently a new record for Toronto. 

Carl

[CANicoll]

Carl, Thanks!  Love the MRP paints just about fool proof.  The flooring is supposed to be delivered Thursday, and installed next week.  I have to clear out my Hobbyroom/Office however!  

We got about half what you did where I am, but not too far west they matched your snowfall.  Supposedly we are getting another storm this week but I don't see it forecast.  

It was 16C this morning with no wind.  Tonight we are supposed to see temps fall to -21C windchill...  THAT has been brutal.  The wind just cuts through you.  Can't have any exposed skin for very long.

[Martinnfb]

Beautiful paint job.