1/48 B1B - New pics ! Hey she's over !

Hi all,

This huge kit’s been on my workbench for a while and I wish to share my progress with you, so that anyone who built it might react and let me know any kit shortcoming or any tip, and all other comments are welcome !

Here we go, with the cockpit first :

Then bombs and exhaust, both being after market parts…

Then ECM resin pods at the rear

Other pix follow,

Richard

Looks like you’ve got a good start on this one. I haven’t started on mine yet, but I have the AM burner cans and some PE for the cockpit that I’ll be using. What kind of AM bombs are those? How many come in a set? I’m looking for some 1/48 JDAMS to put on my B-1.

Here come other pictures :

I decided then to get dealing with the rotary launchers, which supplied parts are well shaped, but naked, so…

then I got to preparing the parts onsprue, to say the least…

also added details to the internal tank :

underwing seams…

After that I got into the bays…

and back to the launchers…

More to come,

Cheers,

Richard

Hi LemonJello!

the JDAMs are GBU31 (2 bombs per set), coming from the US based producer SHULL24, whose products are very very good, the ECM jamming pods also come from their rang. Visit them here : http://www.shull24.com

They really deserve to get succesful in their expanding their activity, because quality is a top ranking, and prices are quite soft !

Regards,

Richard

Hi,

Bomb bays over and in place :

2€ coin to get the sheer size of the plane :

Wings and top are in place, and I glued the rear part, but the very bad seam requests a lot of putty…

And this is where I currently am !

I’ll send more on progres photos soon,

Best regards,

Richard

Holy [censored]!!! AWESOME WORK! I’ve got a B-1B on my bench, and I want to build another one. I will DEFInATELY bookmark this page and use as refrence! Very impressive, sir!

WOW!!! Awesome job!!! One question, what are the yellow pads made out of??? They look fantastic. I would like to recreate something very similar. A+++++++ on your building skills. Long Live the BONES.

Looks like some excellent work so far Richard. Keep us posted as this monster progresses.

Regards, Rick

Excellent work so far on the B-1. The bomb bays and rotary launches are superb.

Darwin, O.F. [alien]

Hi pdixon316,

Thanks for your comments.

The “yellow pads” are details included in Revell’s kit, I just did my best to paint them well, with a thin & new brush, then after completely dried, I applied a wash, and then highlighted with a drybrush of yellow.

Best regards,

Richard

OMG…this has got to be one of the best bones I’ve seen in a long time. Keep posting, I am totally entralled with your build.
How long has it taken you to get to this point?

Hi Wibhi12,

Thanks for your comments !

I started this kit in October 2005, spending about 2 hours a week modelling.

I’ll keep the pictures coming along with my progress.

Best regards,

Richard

I agree with all of the statements posted above.Might I ask what you are using as a reference for your bomb bays? Judging by the amount of detail you are putting in to them,it looks as if you spend (or spent) alot of time around the real thing.But anyway,excellent work,please keep the posts coming!

Hi RadMax8,

and thank you VERY MUCH for your comments !

I’d be really glad if my build could help ! I’ll keep the pix comin’ !

Regards,

Richard

Hi Zone V Afterburner,

All the details I added to the bomb bays were inspired by photos I found either on the web or in modeling magazines.

I wanted the bomb bays to be opened as the B1-B often sports them down when grounded. Revell parts are naked, but proposed shapes are good, enough to be used as a starting base.

I’ll post more pictures soon.

Thanks for your comments,

best regards,

Richard

Awesome and a georgous job so far![8D][tup]

Hi all,

Thanks !

Well let’s carry on with that step by step I started over…

Here comes the scratch detailing of the uplifting parts in which the wings slide rearward :

a rearview of the same area :

Now this is the bad seam (made better) on the rear part of the fuselage :

same one underneath…

a bad seam indeed !

Tonight I’ll be dealing with the vortex generators, supplied by the Eduard etch parts… pix to come, hopefully in one or two days… (2 PE parts per vortex gen, and 11 of these on each side !!!)

Best regards,

Richard

Hi,

I got over with the vortex gens, but only on ONE side for tonite…
While I put’em on, I noticed Eduard had forgotten 2 gens out of the 11 per side, nothing some styrene beam can’t sort out !

Other in progress pics to follow…

Regards,

Richard

Hello !

The right side is now done

Once this was done I put the stabs with the angle they almost always show when the plane is grounded

Then I glued the cockpit sub assembly with the main body

One can see the bad seam that’s gonna have to be filled and sanded, once more !

Since the Bone’s been asembled I have to take an extreme care when moving it, because of its size ! It knocks everything around !

Great shapes ! [:D]
But putty on the way [BH]

Best regards,

Richard

Nice work - looking forward to the finished product! I was thinking of picking up one of these, but the sheer size of the thing had me a bit intimidated. I don’t know where I’d put the thing when I was done with it! But from what I’ve seen, I sure love the looks of this finished model, and so I might just have to bite the bullet and get me one [;)]