Hey, all you bomber buffs and SAC Weinies! Hark! Golden Dragon is coming out with a resin 1/32 scale of the supersonic lawn dart, better known as the B-58. The roar of those 4 J-79s in full burner was awsome.
Release date is imminent. Length=33", WS= 21", Ht=12", weight=???
All resin, not solid; white metal LG, rubber tires, (all 18 of 'em), full cockpits, radar, optional open engine nacelles, etc.
All for a mere $400. check out their web site at www.golddragpro.entry/host.com [:p] [:D] [8D]
The above referenced web site doesn’t seem to work. Try www.golddragpro.com , then click on the dragon and then on the B-58.
Well, that would blow my kit budget for an entire year on one kit. Think I’ll stick to 1/48 scale.
Regards, Rick
too big moneywise…
[:p]Yeah, but what an impressive model that beast would make. It would take up half of a table at a display or contest. It would only require a second or third mortgage on the house or maybe something sacreligious like selling off all those kits in the closet that you are never going to build anyway. [V]
I saw one in this scale years ago done from, I think, a Combat Models vacform airframe and and nothing else but incredibly intricate scratchbuilding. This model, as good as any museum model I’ve ever seen, was hanging from a nail on the wall of the man’s garage next to his garden rake! I sputtered something about this terrible travesty and he shrugged, grumbled something about his wife not allowing him to display his models in the house, and went back to work scratchbuilding stainless steel gear legs for a 1/24 scale TBF, also starting with a Combat Models bare bones vac form…heck, they aren’t even kits, they are, I guess, “sets” since you get nothing but a sheet with fuselage halves and another with flying surfaces, and that’s it.
Tom
PS And as much as I love the Hustler – oh, I truly do – too rich for my blood, and too big in 1/32. We felt lucky when the Monogram kit came out in 1/48 to have any kit at all, but now that one is so dated. Looks like a job for Trumpeter.
I’ll wait untill they come out with a 1/32 scale B-36. Then I can sell my boat and buy one.[:-^]
I bought the 1/48 scale bird and said to myself “what have I got myself into?”
I cant imagine a 1/32 I shoulda gone with the 1/72 in the first place 
That price ain’t that bad for an all resin very large plane, pretty cheap really Look at how much collect-aire charges for thier 1/48th resin kits, or the cost of some of those other ship models. If I recall correctly, a 1/35th resin Carl Moser was selling for $1200.00 .
Now alls I need is 1 big contract rendering job and I can nail that puppy.
No, as prices for specialty kits go, and Collectaire leaps immedately to my mind too, especially when you see one their kits in the box, this isn’t bad at all. It’s more than I’ll ever want to pay for an all resin kit, but someone will love it. I’ll bet that sucker will need stainless steel gear legs to hold the weight. Just imagine how much stress will be at the wing joint alone. Still, I want to see this, in the box and built up. If I’m going to pay that much for a kit, I want multi-multi-media. The best bargain in that line is without a doubt Koster. Just take a look at his A-20 series. For the price, all those hundreds of PE, white metal, resin and plastic parts, and originally released in the late '80s at 50 bucks, well, you can’t beat that. And, that kit as originally released is still as good as the state of the art in mixed media kits today costing three or four times as much. Of all the three hundres-odd kits I lost in my disaster, that is the only one I still genuinely grieve for. It was as though I lost a friend, and I hadn’t even started it yet. For three years, I would just take it down from the shelf and marvel at all those little bags of beautiful parts and that big, gorgeously rendered sheet of decals. Oh, to have another one!.
Tom
[:0] Selling the boat won’t cut it. Sell the house, the wife and the kids, probably the dog and cat too, then rob a few banks and win the lottery. Let’s see, the B-36 was something over 200 feet tip to tip, so 1/32 would make it in the range of 6 and half feet across. When you sell the house, retain rental rights to the garage!
How many bottles of silver paint would it take for the big B-58 or B-36 either one[?]
Does Aeromaster offer their paint in quart bottles?[alien][%-)]