Showing posts with label bombers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bombers. Show all posts

Sunday, December 30, 2007

1/144 B-52




This one is sort of a "replacement" model. I had originally built one in Junior High or High School, getting a kick out of the fact it was in markings for the 92nd Strategic Bombing Wing at Fairchild AFB, near where I grew up. However, the decals didn't react well to the flat coat I used, and shriveled up.

Fast forward about 10 years and I came across it again (and this time used an acrylic flat coat, less likely to wreak havoc).

Kit:
Revell
Scale: 1/144
Markings: 92nd SBW, Fairchild AFB, WA
Date: Summer 2000
Aftermarket: None

Saturday, December 29, 2007

1/72 B-2 Siprit



College meant building only during semester breaks (1 month in the winter, 2-3 months in the summer). After graduating and setting up housekeeping in Pensacola, I could devote slightly more attention to my past-times. Although I was to find, as many other builders, that "real life" tends to intrude (work, moving, etc), I was able to build more than I did in college.

This was the first project I did in Pensacola. Most of it is spray painted, using aerosol cans in a makeshift cardboard spray booth on the deck of the apartment.

Kit: Testor's
Scale: 1/72
Markings: 509th Bomb Wing
Date: 1999
Aftermarket: None