The Absurdity of it All. Huge airplane models.

[Martinnfb]

The best thing about B-52 is the oil canning  :), sometimes more pronounced than WNW Lancaster 

 

[Martinnfb]

[harv]

Maru sent me a calendar for that museum.....harv

[GusMac]

Those B-52s from Barksdale are super cool.

[Martinnfb]

[harv]

On 4/24/2019 at 3:03 PM, Martinnfb said:

The best thing about B-52 is the oil canning  :), sometimes more pronounced than WNW Lancaster 

 

There is a guy in the FB B52 modelers group that did the oil canning on his build and looks exactly like tis. Just amazing.......harv

[Martinnfb]

link?

[GazzaS]

On 4/25/2019 at 6:03 AM, Martinnfb said:

The best thing about B-52 is the oil canning  :), sometimes more pronounced than WNW Lancaster 

 

I've seen thighs that look like that!

[Martinnfb]

Cold weather doesn't help 

[GusMac]

What the hell is that AWACS bird Martin? Obviously Russian but what's the basic airframe.

[Martinnfb]

The official designation is Beriev A-50? It is based on Il-76 .

[Martinnfb]

 

[harv]

Wasn't this  in a movie not to long ago ? I think it was 22 hours

...harv

 

[Martinnfb]

[GazzaS]

Very sinister looking!

[Jeff]

Do those guys build anything 'small'? Their stuff is nothing short of massive.................. they sure do have the Large Scale Models down to a science, this is cool.....

[Martinnfb]

Somebody has to keep 1/144 guys busy

[GusMac]

Thanks Martin.

As Gaz says that looks suitably sinister and bad-ass in that colour scheme.

[Clunkmeister]

On 5/27/2019 at 2:36 PM, GusMac said:

Thanks Martin.

As Gaz says that looks suitably sinister and bad-ass in that colour scheme.

IL-76 series are beautiful aircraft.

[Clunkmeister]

An-225 in 1/72 for the WIN!!!

 

[GusMac]

That's a few jars of Tamiya X-2 there!

[Jeff]

5 hours ago, Clunkmeister said:

An-225 in 1/72 for the WIN!!!

 

THAT'S 1/72???????????????????????????????????????? Holy $**T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Clunkmeister]

4 minutes ago, Jeff said:

THAT'S 1/72???????????????????????????????????????? Holy $**T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Even the An-22 is almost 3 ft long in 1/72

[GazzaS]

On 5/30/2019 at 5:36 AM, Clunkmeister said:

Even the An-22 is almost 3 ft long in 1/72

And not one gun on it!

[Clunkmeister]

5 hours ago, GazzaS said:

And not one gun on it!

Well, it could have 5,000 guns in it, though....