I am looking to make some decals for some 1/144th B-52’s but need help finding recent markings out of Minot. Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. BTW I work in a bakery…mmm. If you can help me out I will take care of you.
TIA
OK Balta
They belong to the 23rd Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Wing
Here are some pics at the Minot AFB site
http://www.minot.af.mil/base/pictures/Default.htm
here is a bigger pic
http://community.webshots.com/photo/79556579/79397107KAMoEv
and another
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/images/b-52_centcom080503.jpg
Can’t find any decals for them in 1/144 or 1/72
you may have to decal bash to get the particular aircraft you want to depict.[:D]
(I’ll take a bavarian creme please)[:D] lol
jeff
Out at Tinker AFB we do all the overhauls for the B-52, so we get aircraft coming in from all over the country. Most of the ones we have now are from Barksdale but there are a couple from minot. I believe the tail code for minot is MT. The aircraft are overall gunship grey and carry the small black national insignia on the wings and fuselage.There is also a small USAF on the top of the right wing. The Minot birds that I’ve seen have a red and yellow band near the fin tip. I forget what it looks like, but I’ll check when I go to work tonight. Working out there is cool. You get to see B-52’s from various units and all sorts of markings. One I checked out last night has nose art for “Cherokee Strip II”, like the B-24. There is a tail fin outside with the tailcode of BF and a band of blue and red checkers near the tip. It comes from a reserve unit, but does anyone know where?
Hey that is a cool job Rebel99!!. Can you email me so we can work something out?
Philip,
Thanks for the links to the great pictures. FWIW, the engine pods look huge compared to what I’ve seen on model kits. Have the engines on the B-52s changed over the years? For that matter, are the kits incorrect?
Regards,
-Drew
The only basic engine change on the B-52 is when Boeing went from the Pratt & Whitney J-57 series on the early models to the TF-33 on the later models beginning with the B-52G I believe. I recently read that there was a plan around 1996 or so to fit four larger and more powerful British RB-211 engines onto the airplane but the idea was cancelled. I do have a bit of bad news for you guys though. The only thing I can’t do out at Tinker is take pictures. Any colors, markings, antenna arrangements, or anything else I can tell you but can’t provide any photos or T.O. drawings. I feel bad because I would like to take some pictures of that nose art and others to use as a reference on my model but I can’t. About a week ago I got to go out on the flightline to drill some drain holes on a lower side cowling on a 52 that had just completed one of its first post-overhaul test flights. The guy that was training me had a disposable camera (which is a BIG no-no because cameras are forbidden from the base) and I wanted to take just one pic of me driling one hole in this cowling to put in a school scrapbook, and they wouldn’t give me permission. I would still be glad to help though and tell you about whatever on the B-52. Do you still want me to e-mali you?
I can still use help with other info I need so go ahead and give me a shout.
Already did…and included my e-mail address so you can just send any questions you have. Sorry again about the pictures.