I had thought that when viewing this image.
Anyone make a tanker to accomplish this?
It has been done before but hey its one of those subjects that one never gets tired of seeing as a diorama!
Didn’t AMT do some of the KC-135 family in 1/72?
Squadron has a Heller KC-135 in 1/72. That would work.
Yes, they did. They are a lot of work to get right. Plus it is the “A” version. I believe that the picture is the KC-10 Extender gassing up the Corsair II. (Edit) I guess if I read the caption to the picture I would have seen that it said KC-10 [D)]
Yes AMT did a series of -135…A and R as well as RC and ECs. They are being rereleased by Italari.
I’ve got several in the stash including several Monogram B-52s and Hasegawa B-47s that I intend to display refueling from the ceiling of the man cave. SAC during its finest days.
It’s a fine idea.
An idea I’ve had for awhile is doing a United States Navy Blimp, Akron or Macon as a vignette of the landing bay trapeze with a Curtis F9C-2 “Sparrowhawk” fighter as the main focal point.
…maybe with a dynamic posed fighter pilot climbing into the fighter…
I remember a KC10 with an F15 hooked up, think it was 144 scale, anyone else? It would be a great subject for that guy (sorry don’t recall your name) who does Airliners attached to mirror.
Old Hooker! that’s who I’m thinking about.
The guy that does this so well. I think a air refueling build woud be awsome.
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Wish I had a picture of it, but a guy in my unit once did an excellent dio of a KA-6 refueling an A-4… Here’s a similar situation with a Tomcat… In fact, I have to dig around, but I have a KA-6 crew-patch that’s pretty funny reflecting the Tomcat and the Tanker…
So if you wanna do a Navy bird gassing-up in 1/48 or 1/72, there’s this:
I for one, have never seen this is Dio, but I think it would be an awesome idea!
Best kind of dio, Rat… Showing the subject doing it’s thing…
At the National Air Force Museum in Dayton next to the SR-71, there is a very nice model of an SR-71 refueling from a KC-135. It’s a big model if I recall: 1/72 or maybe even 1/48. I tried to find a photo of the model without luck, but maybe the museum has one on hand.
I remember that the model was particularly striking because the SR-71 had about a 15-degree higher angle-of-attack than the tanker, rather like the above photo. Cool stuff.
Gerald–
Awesome wall mount! Can you give more detail about how the support works?
Sure. A little background first. This model was built with the gear down to sit on a shelf…somehow it got damaged and the gear went to the carpet monster. Then it was mounted on a pedestal like you see as a gate guard…again it got damaged, this time during a move. I didn’t want to just hang it from the ceiling of my new house, so I thought I’d mount it to a plaque and add some of my unit patches and other memoribilia. Well, I never got that last part added.
If I do this again I would set it up so the boom would contain the support rod that holds it to the plaque. In this case the boomer window was also lost in its initial mishap so there was an opening for the rod to be inserted into the fuselage.
This model has been through its fair share of damage…at one point I thought it would end up in the trash. Glad I kept it.
The rod is just inserted into a hole predrilled into the plaque, then a shallow groove was carve to allow the rod to bend 90 degree and fit flush along the backside. I screwed this one onto the wall because of the torque and weight the model would place on simple wall hangers. The rod came from the inside workings of a venetian window blind.