russ c Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Hi everyone, Whilst I was concentrating on my `Secret War`theme recently I dragged this one off the shelves and gave it a make over, so I thought i`d show you some pic`s of my newly refurbished, 2nd attempt at building a B-26K from the Monogram kit. Finished as an aircraft of the 609th Special Operations Squadron, Used for `Steel Tiger` missions over Laos on the `Ho Chi Mihn Trail`, using the call sign `Nimrod` On my 1st attempt I used a Paragon Designs conversion but wasn`t 100% happy with the nose as it was and I didn`t make a great job of attaching the resin prop` blades to the hubs So when I managed to get a hold of a Cutting Edge 8 gun nose and another glass nosed Invader kit, I salvaged as much of the Paragon set off the other one as I could ie, cockpit, tip tanks, antenna(s), rudder, fuselage insert and wing pylons and fitted to the new kit using the C/E nose This time I modified the kit prop`s using sheet polystyrene and filler and had to make the vortex generators on the fin from scratch Unfortunately the Paragon late style engine cowls didn`t survive the surgery so I completed it as an early `K` with just the white serial on the fin and used the kit cowlings as they came. to portray one of the first aircraft of the deployment The weapons came from a Hasegawa weapons set. Hope you enjoy looking at. Cheers Russ 39 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Very nice Russ, you trying for the record of most builds in a year 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted December 4, 2013 Author Share Posted December 4, 2013 Very nice Russ, you trying for the record of most builds in a year Cheers Colin, It`s a few years old actually, I`ve `painted myself into a corner` with my current builds for a change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Very nice Russ,....I`ve always fancied building one of these, but in 72nd scale,....they are so very `Guchy' Cheers Tony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 That's a lovely build 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_W Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Oh, I do like that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hgbn Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Its hard not to like the A/B-26 Invader... One of the most successful combat aircraft that has ever been created in the history of aerial warfare. And one of the most lethal in Strafing, interdiction and counter insurgency ( A Korean war era B model armed with a 8 ,50 cal gun nose and 6 more in the wings plus bombs, rockets and napalm) I wouldn't like to be in the receiving end of that combo. I would be sliced, chopped and fried 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted December 4, 2013 Author Share Posted December 4, 2013 Its hard not to like the A/B-26 Invader... One of the most successful combat aircraft that has ever been created in the history of aerial warfare. And one of the most lethal in Strafing, interdiction and counter insurgency ( A Korean war era B model armed with a 8 ,50 cal gun nose and 6 more in the wings plus bombs, rockets and napalm) I wouldn't like to be in the receiving end of that combo. I would be sliced, chopped and fried Yeah, But what a way to go ! Cheers, thanks for looking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardiff guy Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 always liked the counter invader looks really good Glenn. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snapper_city Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 (edited) Very nice Russ. I would love to see all your builds as almost all are to my taste. It would also be nice if someone got round to making a new mold of the counter invader. I live in hope. Edited December 4, 2013 by snapper_city 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Learstang Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Brilliant job on the Counter-Invader, Russ! Regards, Jason 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raguk Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Yet another fantastic build Russ, Thanks for posting! Rick G 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luis Alfonso Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Wonderful build Russ, just a masterpiece. Cheers, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llking Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 very nice Russ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HL-10 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 That's a sexy looking beast! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmcclure Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Good going Russ - another winner! What a very potent machine indeed. Cheers, Roger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcode Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 fantastic work russ,looks great very nice paint work and love the scheme 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 absolute stunner!! Great work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ancient mariner Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Like that...like that a lot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stryker Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Nice work as usual Russ! Nice work as usual Russ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicE1 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Very nice indeed! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawker stu Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 lovely build there mate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julien Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Nice one Russ. Julien 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomjw Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Very nice. Looks well mean with that eight gun nose. Cheers, Tom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natter Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Lovely model. It looks mean with a capital 'M'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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