I built this kit to look like the original 1954 issue. Paints: Tamiya, Testors & Pactra acrylics. Decals: Warbird Decals & homemade courtesy of my pc & printer.
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Dear R-W. Looks really good. I love the old kits and you’ve certainly done this one justice. Well done.
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Thank you! I tend to build older kits. Guess that by default makes me a nostalgia builder!
There is just something about a BUFF in the NMF SAC scheme…
Major Kong approves 
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Love that movie! Building kits older than yourself is always an interesting experience.
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Great job. I’ve been tempted to add a B-52 to the collection. There’s so many great schemes. While they look big, I walked all around one at the March AFB museum and they appear smaller in person.
Great looking model - how was that old kit BTW?
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Hmmmmm. I don’t think I can find a kit older than myself. I was six years old when your B-52 kit was released.
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The oldest kits in my collection are solid wood kits of the V-1 and Baka bomb from 1944.
Your “BUFF” turned out great! These “vintage” kits are great for getting out of a modeling slump or for bringing back modeling memories. I wonder if this is the B-52 that Atlantis recently reissued?
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Thanks Tom. It’s the same kit basically but with the X-15 & cradle. On my build, more so on the underside of the wing, you can see where Revell plugged the right wing where the X-15 & cradle are nestled. I believe the Advent release I built was the last time the kit was ever released in pure bomber form.
Roger wilco, do you know the
“history” of this partnership of Revell & Advent? I have a couple of the old Revell 1/28 WWI planes in my stash and they’re also from Advent. That is one manufacturer that I’m not familiar with.
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To the best of my knowledge, Revell formed Advent as a way to reissue some of their older toolings. They only existed for one year, 1979.
Douglas
Nice BUFF. Seeing one in that livery does bring back memories of Dr. Strangelove.
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Thank you! It was a fun project overall.
Just for fun… 
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