Minicraft is coming out with a 1/144 KC-135R pretty soon. t sounds like its gonna be a nice kit! That might be exactly what you need.
Go For broke!
Matchbox Victor K2 refueling an Airfix Vulcan during Operation Black Buck.
Academy makes a really cool KC-97G and the -97L with jet engines.
I found this while searching the web.
www.boxartden.com/…/Revell-SAC-Refueling-Team
I hope that was a real kit! I’m guessing it was a small scale. Maybe 1/200?
That is more likely Revell’s old boxscale models, meaning that the model was designed to fit a standard-sized box with scale being not a standard scale like 1/200th. It could be something oddball like1/153rd or some such scale.
Definitely oddball - if the source kits are the ones I believe they are, the KC-135 is 1/139 scale and the B-58 is 1/94
After a further search it appears they are 1/240 scale.
I’ve found the KC-135 with a B-58 and a KC-135 with a B-47.
For the Super Hornet my source says the Buddy store setup as follows: A total of four 480 gallon tanks on stations on the two inboard hard points under each wing. On the centerline station its the same 330 gallon unit used for the buddy store on the Classic Hornet, and S-3. The E and F can both do it but the E carries more fuel. One thing, if you want your Super Hornet to carry a heavy load of ordinance but are bumping in to your maximum launch weight, Cat with low fuel, and top your tank once in the air, and you are on your way. [:)]
I don’t think that refueling kit is real. Asked around a bit never seen by my friends.
Hustler was 1/94
here is an OOB kit that does what you want, it is a Legacy Hornet with the newest refueling store
www.zone-five.net/showthread.php
you get one to do the decals and the pod, and any other 1/48 to do the receiving aircraft.
It is a bit large,but two 1/48 Hornets might take up less space than two of the larger jets.
Rex
If you want to go small-scale (1/144), there’s also this set, if you can get your hands on one.
that’s pretty cool, another KA-6D model that includes the D-704 in the kit, that allows you to model the Tanker with the pod that was often carried as a backup plan
so many ideas! sounds like this diorama could be a real hit.
seems like that would really work, will have to find some other decals though. Do the supers use the same pod?
This a display at the NASM
s50.photobucket.com/…/001_zps41edf65f.jpg.html
Here are some links if you need inspiration for refueling subjects. Some of the sites don’t allow hot links so I set them all as links rather than pictures
F/A-18E refueling from combined refueling system: http://www.dodlive.mil/files/2014/06/14218692287_3ddb88d65d_o-495x350.jpg
CH-53 refueling from a KC-130: http://millerswebsite5.tripod.com/53pics/2_53s_aerial_refueling_small.jpg
An early refueling from 1923: http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.com//filer/Then_and_Now_FLASH_AUG2010.jpg__800x600_q85_crop.jpg
The two methods
Seasick, the contrast between the two systems is why my Uncle and I used to tease my little brother about the Navy and Marines having Male Aircraft and his Air Force having Females. (he was at George with the Weasel guys)
That late pod in Dave Roof’s post is the type currently used on the Super Hornet, Blairy. I don’t know why NASA did the flight tests for it. I guess that NACA might have done the testing on the D-704 back in the old days,but, I was just a kid back then.
Rex
oh, and there was a third method,a boom that swung down away from the Navy tanker, and sent a hose back out of the end of it with the drogue deployed from that hose.
Search for things like Savage refueling and early Phantom testing a refueling pod, I think there was an A-3 involved in those tests also.
Rex
I think I have found the one! how cool would this look!
Wow, not only does it look cool, but, you might end up being the first one to do that combo in model form.
Since they are kits, all of the others might have been done before.,this photo is something like last week or last month, or something recent like that.
Rex
And by the looks of it, the Osprey doesn’t utilize any external components for refueling.
