1/72 Italeri B-57G Canberra

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Hi everyone ,

Here’s some pic’s of 1/72 Italeri B-57G Canberra I just finished .

It was OOB build except for the Cobra Company resin cockpit tub and seats . I also cut the rear elevators on the tail planes to pose the in the dropped position along with the tail fin , airbrushed with Gunze acrylics . I really struggled painting the tips of the bombs yellow . I tried hand brush painting , which looked awefull , then I tried masking an airbrushing the yellow and that wasn’t much better . Finally I just cut some yellow decal into thin strips and went with that . I’m disappointed with my efforts on the bombs but I’m happy with the overall build .

John .

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Looks good! I’m relatively new to the hobby (stopped building planes when I was kid, built cars for the past 15 years or so and now back into aircraft) — what technique did you use for airbrushing the camo?

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Very nice build! The dropped elevator is a nice touch. What did you use to mask the camo?

Mike

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Thank’s guy’s ,

For masking the camouflage ppatten I like to use ‘blu-tack’ , rolled into thin strips like spaghetti .

Here’s a link to some masking and airbrushing WIP pic’s that I posted in the Night Fighter GB

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/29/t/132597.aspx?sort=ASC&pi240=79

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/29/t/132597.aspx?sort=ASC&pi240=80

I use the same process for all my camouflage paint schemes

John .

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That’s a great looking model of an aircraft I know nothing about- what is that under the nose??

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Here’s a pic from the Robert C Mikesh B-57 Book

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Ah… thanks, Helo. Function over form in this case…

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And theres me thinking you just did choppers. Lovely looking build.

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Mugly other, eh?

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Great build. I’m a big fan of the Canberra. The best way I’ve found to paint the stripes on bombs is to paint the yellow first then mask it and paint the od