KursadA Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 (edited) CD48092 will be a 1/48 sheet featuring several current/recent USAF B-1B markings, both from Dyess and Ellsworth (and quite possibly some of the test units). I have sent the stencilling sheet to be printed about two weeks ago, and should receive it soon. I am still working on the main sheet, but should be able to finish it in a few late night sessions while the rest of the industry is having fun at the Nats. I am too busy preparing your preorders/orders to draw profiles right now, but this is what the stencil sheet looks like. I chose to depict the EXCM (chaff/flare) frangible door outlines as a decal, since these are hard to scribe. Hopefully it will look good on the model. The stencil sheet will be available separately. The very prominent wing walkways are on a separate, all-black sheet. Most likely coming as an August/September release. Edited July 23, 2015 by KursadA Quote Link to post Share on other sites
B-1 Nut Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 I'm interested to see what you come up with. I'd really, really like a GA ANG BONE too. I want my B-1 to be the Memphis Belle. I think the only choice in 1/48 is the long OOP Cutting Edge decals. I'd rather buy a brand new sheet for $10-$20 than a 12 year old decal sheet for $50+. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gator52 Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Test units would be cool; I think the 77 WPS would be a great subject too! Looking forward to this one! Jonah Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomcatfreak Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Cool idea, now that we got the nice Barracuda stuff! Any chance of getting some early B-1A stuff, like the camouflage one? Thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hoops Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 I sent you an email to the "info" address about B-1s... Cheers, Hoops Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted July 16, 2015 Author Share Posted July 16, 2015 (edited) I sent you an email to the "info" address about B-1s... Cheers, Hoops Holy smokes - Hoops just sent me a bunch of photos of some very rarely photographed stencils on the underside; so I will need to redesign portion of the stencil sheet. Hopefully it is not too late to change the design - I just e-mailed Cartograf. Thanks for helping make this a much more complete offering. Edited July 16, 2015 by KursadA Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carlizle84 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 (edited) Ooooh, B-1 stuff!!! I was an Ammo troop at Dyess for 4 years, so I saw a WHOLE lot of B-1 stuff. The chaff mods are open topped, so when a chaff stick is fired, the top on the stick is pushed off, and the chaff follows it out into the airstream. Half of the time, the chaff mods would have the little plastic squares that are glued over the top of the plastic grid to cover the tops of the chaff sticks, but they came off very easily. It was pretty common to have chaff mods go out on a jet, and come back with the little squares missing even though the chaff hadn't been expended. The flare mods on the B-1 aren't frangible. The flare mods actually have spring loaded doors that are split in half, and the flare pellet pushes out of the door. This takes a good bit of force, because the springs on the doors are pretty stout. Not sure how well any of this detail would show up on decals, but you would know way more about it than I would. B-1 flare mod. 12 sticks per mod. B-1 chaff mod. 120 sticks of chaff per mod. To the very far left, you can see a mod that has the little squares glued on the grid. For some reason, I didn't take a picture of that mod. Edited July 17, 2015 by carlizle84 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted July 17, 2015 Author Share Posted July 17, 2015 (edited) Ooooh, B-1 stuff!!! I was an Ammo troop at Dyess for 4 years, so I saw a WHOLE lot of B-1 stuff. The chaff mods are open topped, so when a chaff stick is fired, the top on the stick is pushed off, and the chaff follows it out into the airstream. ... This is great information, thanks. I looked into providing more detail for these modules; but I could not make sense of some of the photos I have seen. That detail photo of the chaff module is pure gold; I had looked everywhere when I was researching this last month. Question: were the chaff and flare modules completely interchangeable, i.e. could a chaff or flare module go in any one of the 8 slots? I am looking at some photos, and I am pretty sure I see 8 frangible (or smooth??) doors there. On the other hand, I can see some flare modules on a few other photos. The old Detail & Scale book has a drawing that seems to imply that the two front slots on each side were used for chaff modules, and the two rear were flare modules. I am willing to provide an alternate set of decals for this area that would depict deployed chaff modules, but I want to understand the configuration first. This one seems to have three deployed flare modules in the rear slots: Pretty sure these guys are sitting on what looks like smooth covers - maybe these are used when there is no chaff or flare needed (training etc.)? This one seems to have two flare modules in the front slots? Edited July 17, 2015 by KursadA Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hoops Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Not being a B-1 expert myself, but based on experience with other aircraft I would posit the following: It's a lot of extra work and precautions to have chaff and flare loaded, so they would not be loaded most of the time stateside. When testing, training or exercise reasons demand it, they would be loaded but not necessarily all buckets. That's were we'd see the smooth covers. Mission aircraft overseas would obviously have the buckets loaded. Hoops Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carlizle84 Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 As far as I know, you could load 8 flare mods or 8 chaff mods, or any combination of. I never got on top of the jets while the loaders were doing their thing, but that seems correct. You are exactly right about the smooth covers. When they don't fly chaff or flare, they put those covers on to cover the ports. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted July 23, 2015 Author Share Posted July 23, 2015 Here is the latest version of the stencilling sheet - I improved many elements and corrected the shape of the chaff/flare dispenser arrays. The refueling door details and guide lines are also much, much more accurate. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Darth2307 Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Here is the latest version of the stencilling sheet - I improved many elements and corrected the shape of the chaff/flare dispenser arrays. The refueling door details and guide lines are also much, much more accurate. Looks amazing! Definitely a must buy for me! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hoops Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Here is the latest version of the stencilling sheet - I improved many elements and corrected the shape of the chaff/flare dispenser arrays. The refueling door details and guide lines are also much, much more accurate. It's great to see the improvements to the stencil sheet! I'm looking forward to see which B-1s made the cut for the markings. Cheers Kursad, Hoops Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Nirel Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Why two extra national insignia? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted July 27, 2015 Author Share Posted July 27, 2015 (edited) Why two extra national insignia? No special reason - I wanted send the design back as soon as possible without missing the print deadline, and did not have the time to optimize the layout to eliminate an unsightly space there. Adding two extra national insignia solved the problem. Edited July 27, 2015 by KursadA Quote Link to post Share on other sites
foxmulder_ms Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 CD48092 will be a 1/48 sheet featuring several current/recent USAF B-1B markings, both from Dyess and Ellsworth (and quite possibly some of the test units). I have sent the stencilling sheet to be printed about two weeks ago, and should receive it soon. I am still working on the main sheet, but should be able to finish it in a few late night sessions while the rest of the industry is having fun at the Nats. I am too busy preparing your preorders/orders to draw profiles right now, but this is what the stencil sheet looks like. I chose to depict the EXCM (chaff/flare) frangible door outlines as a decal, since these are hard to scribe. Hopefully it will look good on the model. The stencil sheet will be available separately. The very prominent wing walkways are on a separate, all-black sheet. Most likely coming as an August/September release. Do we know which B-1Bs had flown in Syria operations? That will be really nice to have. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Youngtiger1 Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I have at least one kit of this bad boy waiting to find new markings for it. I sold all my B-1B decals while back and I was kicking myself ever since. I hope we will see some current squadrons or at least colorful markings. Looks like you will be getting a lot of my funds between this and few other sheets Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tintriangle Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Any chance of adding some older camo schemes please? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted August 14, 2015 Author Share Posted August 14, 2015 I received an offer for some excellent references on older camouflaged B-1Bs, and will certainly consider a sheet for these later in the year. Some of the stencilling is fairly different (at least in color), so I may end up designing another stencilling sheet for these. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tintriangle Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I received an offer for some excellent references on older camouflaged B-1Bs, and will certainly consider a sheet for these later in the year. Some of the stencilling is fairly different (at least in color), so I may end up designing another stencilling sheet for these. Excellent - would really appreciate a camo sheet :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dmk0210 Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 (edited) I received an offer for some excellent references on older camouflaged B-1Bs, and will certainly consider a sheet for these later in the year. Some of the stencilling is fairly different (at least in color), so I may end up designing another stencilling sheet for these. Good news! I'll be wiating to buy one of these too. The Revell kit actually lends itself much better to an early green/gray camo schemed bird. Edited August 31, 2015 by dmk0210 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomcatfreak Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 Any news on this project?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted September 28, 2015 Author Share Posted September 28, 2015 Any news on this project?? Still working on the main sheet - it did not make it to the October deadline, but will be part of the next batch for sure. The stenciling sheets are ready; having arrived in the last batch more than a month ago - they look great, and will really add a lot to the finished model. I might be able to offer a small number of them separately in the future. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Youngtiger1 Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Those look awesome. Will they be available soon or when the main markings are done? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted September 28, 2015 Author Share Posted September 28, 2015 Those look awesome. Will they be available soon or when the main markings are done? They will be available when the main markings are ready, probably in the November/December batch of releases. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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