Hello all. I always liked the B1-B Lancer. I want to purchase a kit in the very near future. I do not want a large kit, however It would have to be large enough so it could show a good amount of interesting detail. So I guess it would have to be 1/144th? Enough detail at this scale for this aircraft? If not, what other options would I have as far as scale? Lastly, make, who produces an accurate well molded kit? Thank you all, Ted.
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Revell’s had a 1:48 scale job getting around for a few years…
I think your instinct is right at 1:144 though… Academy has the most recent release and seems to come up nicely based on a few projects on Scalemates
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I’ve always liked this aircraft as well and if I were to build one I’d probably go with the Academy 1/144 offering like Darren mentioned . Plus…there’s a good amount of aftermarket available for it.
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Thanks gentlemen. I’ll have to take a look. I further like the idea of there being aftermarket parts that may make up for the lack of detail at such a small scale. I’ll keep you all informed.
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There is an older B-1 out there by Monogram. It’s out of production, so you’ll have to check eBay or OldModelKits.com (I think that’s the address). That was the last kit I built in my childhood years, roughly 1982 or 1983, when I was in high school and spending more time with baseball and girls.
The aforementioned 1/48th B-1 is huge. I built it about a decade ago and hung it from the ceiling of my garage workshop. I went with an alternative paint scheme - the Bones are typically a gunship gray overall, but early Bones sometimes bore camouflage schemes. Gray underside, dark green+tan top side. I also fictionalized it with some custom made nose art of a red head in a yellow dress, as a nod to my red head wife. Sadly, that kit fell from the ceiling not too long ago and shattered into an unrecoverable pile of pieces. Sadness to pitch all that plastic into a trash can.
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