jonwinn

Thanks, sad that the Minicraft kits will soon be hard to find too, at a decent price, also. Hopefully someone acquires the molds such as Hobby2000.

Thanks, I bought the Academy kit with the canopy anti glare panels after I had the canopy on the Hobbycraft kit installed. The Academy kit has 2 anti glare decals, one for a standard B-47, such as a B or E model, and one for the RB-47H model. I may try prying the canopy off and that will 100% tell me if there needs to be some touch up. Thanks for the input.

Finished last month. 1/72 Hasegawa F-14A Tomcat. This was an old mold with the swing wings and not as detailed as the newer molds. It came out OK except for the crappy fit of the canopy. VF-1 Wolfpack early 90s.

Two 1/72 Hasegawa F-14As this year time for a 3rd. Another more modern mold with an oddity, a TARPS pod which I won't use, am doing the 1988 CAG version.

Wheel well doors on and it's on it's feet. Just a few antennas and its done.

Thanks, wheels on.

All painted and ready for a glosscote then decals.

Most excellent orange I have ever seen! She is a beauty!!!!! Is that the Stratojet that the frame was twisted so bad from that test engine it never flew again? Dam nice paint job!!!!!

Dutch, or anyone else in "the know", on the Academy repop of this they have a decal, black, that goes around the canopy and to the nose, an anti glare area. Do you know if the canopy cut out area on the decal is oversized and should I paint a small area around the canopy on the model before I put the decal down?

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LOOKS AWESOME!!!! I remember the movie with Clint Eastwood. That always reminded me of the SR-71 in a way. Excellent scale size!

Thanks, just resprayed the offending area and painted the cockpit window frames. I also glued the stand permanent. Now to see what I have in my decals spares box. I am not going overboard with this as it is a stand model to adorn my desk. No contest winner here. LOL

Are you a troll?

Decals and dullcote done. Ready for wheels and weapons.

Dunno, it was knocked off the shelf and took a nose dive to the floor, no longer in my possession, will remember that if I ever do another which I doubt.

The decals have arrived, now to mask and paint the body.

The fuselage halves are glued up and the cockpit added through the bottom, nice fit. I removed the antennas not needed with my variant. Now for some wet sanding.

I was suppose to build one in 2013. never did. Then got this as a bargain and started it and it went dead a year ago. In between I bought the new 1/144 Academy B-47E with Cartograph decals, why, no clue, I just did. So I found that the Academy had parts and decals for a B-47B and E AND RB-47H so I will use the decals from the new Academy kit for this and there are still enough Cartograph decals left to do the B-47B from MacDill I had planned. I live about 10 miles from MacDill. Any ways I just added the engine pylons to the wings, I will now mask and do the black for the ECM lumps and bumps t

A reference pic or 2. DaNang Vietnam 1965, George AFB planes.

WOW! Hope that someone picks up their molds like Hobby2000 did for a lot of Hasegawas. I was under the impression they were a Chinese company. I thought. Sad to see them go as I like a lot of their airliner and U. S. cargo planes. They were a partner of Hasegawa for a while-Hasegawa-Minicraft, 1/72 F9F-2 Panther was one I did a few times.

Yup, keep your eyes peeled for the up and coming RB-47E coming off the "shelf of doom" soon. LOL

Been there, done that.

The stabs are on and decals almost done. It will then need the landing gear and a dullcote.

I finally found my "Holy Grail". The 1/72 Fujimi kit, it has the decals for Betty Lou but I also have after market which are much better register. The start. The cockpit tub is done and I added decals as there is no engraved instruments to paint. I left the seats out as I am forever breaking off the ejection handles on the seat tops. It is nice in that I can build the fuselage halves then insert the cockpit tub through the fuselage bottom.

I built it's little brother the 1/72 kit, Monogram kit pantographed down in size, yours is looking great! Word of caution, use a metal nose pitot.