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  1. This is the 2007 issue of the Revell B-1B Lancer (or 'Bone') in 1/72nd scale. I snagged it for £14.99 in a sale at Hobbycraft and made a start on it. That quickly stalled until early this year when I restarted the kit and built and painted it to the condition seen in the photos below. All was going well until I discovered that it needs a lot of filler on several of the upper/lower body joins and the Revell walkway decals were badly silvered; back in the box it went! What has changed my mind is the very recent release of Caracal Models's 'Strategic Air Command B-1B Lancer' decals which give fourteen options for the camouflage adopted by SAC in the early years of B-1B operations. I have done about 75% of the work already so this is a great KUTA subject. On to the photos: 20221208_133455 by GHostbase, on Flickr 20221208_133604 by Ghostbase, on Flickr Probably won't get started for a week or two, oh, and... "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Shelf" (with apologies to 'Jaws') Michael
  2. Thought I'd start to share my completed builds from my inventory. To make it easier for myself, I'll also go in alphabetical order of manufacturer (so expect a fair few Airfix kits next ) so here begins with Academy's 1:144 B-1b Lancer. Lovely little kit with the exception of the top to bottom join along the front fuselage to nose section and the incredibly lacking detail on the afterburners. All finished in Hataka Orange Line paints. I do have another one of these kits in my stash in which I plan to get some 3D printed engine exhausts for it instead of the awful kit options. I built this kit with the ability to swing the wings to my liking so the wing sleeves were glued in the open option. Depicted as B-1b Lancer 86-0139 "Drifter" as she was the first B1 I had ever seen at the fence of RAF Fairford. A great and late friend printed the nose art decal for me from a photo from the original painter of the nose art. Thanks for looking and don't hesitate to ask any questions!
  3. Another Bone build from IanHx.... The obligatory 'look ma, it ain't started' shot.....
  4. Thought I would give this a try, so in the interest of not embarrassing myself first time round (plenty time for that later, have a 1/72 TSR-2 waiting in my stash...) I picked something that's virtually idiot proof to build. Plus it's a kit that took 2 years to get to my country, much to my annoyance. So, some sexy sprue shots. Box: Part trees in no particular order: Will mainly be using Vallejo paints, with some Tamiya and others. Feel free to pass judgment at my worth as a modeler, good practice for Christmas lunch with the family 🙃!
  5. Rockwell B-1B Lancer Revell 1:48 The Rockwell (now part of Boeing) B-1 Lance is a four-engine supersonic variable-sweep wing, jet-powered heavy strategic bomber used by the United States Air Force (USAF). It was first envisioned in the 1960s as a supersonic bomber with Mach 2 speed, and sufficient range and payload to replace the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. It was developed into the B-1B, primarily a low-level penetrator with long range and Mach 1.25 speed capability at high altitude. Designed by Rockwell International, development was delayed multiple times over its history due to changes in the perceived need for manned bombers. The initial B-1A version was developed in the early 1970s, but its production was cancelled, and only four prototypes were built. The need for a new platform once again surfaced in the early 1980s, and the aircraft resurfaced as the B-1B version with the focus on low-level penetration bombing. However, by this point, development of stealth technology was promising an aircraft of dramatically improved capability. Production went ahead as the B version would be operational before the "Advanced Technology Bomber" (which became the B-2 Spirit), during a period when the B-52 would be increasingly vulnerable. The B-1B entered service in 1986 with the USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC) as a nuclear bomber. In the early 1990s, following the Gulf War and concurrent with the disestablishment of SAC and its reassignment to the newly formed Air Combat Command (ACC), the B-1B was converted to conventional bombing use. It first served in combat during Operation Desert Fox in 1998 and again during the NATO action in Kosovo the following year. The B-1B has supported U.S. and NATO military forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Lancer is the supersonic component of the USAF's long-range bomber force, along with the subsonic B-52 and B-2. The bomber is commonly called the "Bone" (originally from "B-One"). With the retirement of the General Dynamics/Grumman EF-111A Raven in 1998 and the Grumman F-14 Tomcat in 2006, the B-1B is the U.S. military's only active variable-sweep wing aircraft. The B-1B is expected to continue to serve into the 2030s, with the Long Range Strike Bomber to start supplementing the B-1B in 2030. The Model First released in 1983 this huge kit has been released three more times before this current incarnation, and this only has a new set of decals so be aware it will still have all the shortcomings of the original kit. That said, the moulds do appear to have stood up well as there is very little flash or other imperfections on the review sample. The parts look well moulded with no short shots and with the surface detail looking as fresh as when originally released. The clear parts for the cockpit windscreen and side windows are nicely tinted, although this does mean that even less of the interior will be viewable. The only real downside is that due to the nature of the semi open sprues quite a few parts have come off within the poly bags. Now, when I built this kit when first released, I’m sure it came with rubber tyres, in fact the undercarriage is about all I’ve got left of it and having rummaged in the spares box and finding them they were indeed rubber. Well in this release the tyres are moulded in halves, in some horrible, shiny, brittle black plastic which doesn’t look good at all and is a backward step in my opinion, especially as the original rubber tyres are still good after all these years. Hopefully some enterprising aftermarket company will soon bring out some nice resin to replace them. Also, over the course of time the B-1B has had several new weapons added to its armoury along with various pods and decoy units, none of which are included. It would have been nice if Revell had brought the kit up to date, but the cynic in me thinks that the parent company are perhaps only ever interested in reboxing older kits and bringing very little new to the modelling table. So, no matter how impressive this kit is, the modeller will have to add quite a bit of scratch building and aftermarket to bring it up to a modern B-1B. The clear instructions, (on better paper than usual), start the build with the assembly of the crew access ladder which is made up of the door, two hand rails and the sliding step section. This is followed by the nose wheel bay, made up of the roof, sidewalls, front/mid/rear bulkheads, nose leg latch and cradle. The four, three piece ejection seats are assembled, before the construction of the front cockpit from the single piece floor complete with side and centre consoles to which the instrument panel and associate coaming, joysticks, seats and rear bulkhead are attached. The rear cockpit is then assembled from the single piece floor, again complete with side consoles control panel, plus the front and rear bulkheads. The two completed cockpit sections are then fitted to the roof of the nose wheel bay. Before adding the cockpit/wheel bay assembly to the nose halves, each half has to have the side windows and portholes fitted. The nose can then be closed up around the cockpits, along with an appropriate amount of weight to prevent the finished model from being a tail sitter. The windscreen is then fitted, followed by the nose mounted radar bulkhead and radar array, and finished off with the radome, which can be left off if the radar is to be shown off. Moving onto the undercarriage, with the nose wheel assembled first. The styrene tyre halves are joined together before the inner and outer hubs of the two wheels are fitted. The two part oleo is then fitted between the two halves of the nose leg, ensuring the oleo section is unglued so that the wheels can be turned to give a bit of life to the finished model. The two part steering module is then attached to the rear of the leg, whilst at the front the lights and retraction link are fitted. Finally the previously complete nose wheels fitted to the oleo and the whole assembly put to one side as the rest of the build progresses with the main wheel bays, engines and bomb bays. The main wheel bays are formed from a single piece roof, two which the rear bulkhead, side walls, front bulkhead and central wall. The completed items are glued from the inside of the lower fuselage to which, for some odd reason only the upper sections of the engine pods are fitted into position on the underside. The instructions then jump to the assembly of the two rotary launchers and the AGM-69As, all 16 of them. Each launcher comes in two halves and fitted by the two weapon support rings, whilst the weapons are made up of two halves to which the tail section is attached and are then fitted to the launchers. Each of the three weapons bays is made up of a large u shaped moulding with roof detail included, to which the two sidewalls, filled with pipe work and other details are fitted. The two forward bays have the AGMs are installed, whilst the rear bay is fitted with a two part long range fuel tank. Each launchers and tank are attached to the front and rear bulkheads of each bay before the bulkheads are slid into position. Each bay is then glued into place on the inside of the lower fuselage. The whole assembly is then put aside to set properly. The two wings are each made up of upper and lower halves and when completed are slid onto the pivots moulded into the lower fuselage. The large upper fuselage section is then carefully attached to the lower fuselage. The two air intakes of each engine pod are formed from upper and lower halves which when glued together are finished off with the front face of the engined glued to the rear. With both lower pods assembled they are then fitted to the already sited upper sections and completed with the fitting of the intakes and two piece exhausts. The eight main wheels are now assembled in the same fashion as the nose wheels and put to one side. The main bogies each come in two halves which before joining are fitted with the internal shock absorber, followed by the four piece retraction mechanism. The wheels are then fitted, with the axles passing through the two brake pipe units. These assemblies are then put to one side to set properly. The tail is assembled from the two vertically moulded halves and finished off with the tailcone. The all moving tailplane is assembled, each side is made up of two halves with the shaft moulded to one side which is then passed through the hole in the assembled tailplane and slid into the hole moulded into the opposite side of the horizontal tail. The nose and tail assemblies are then glued to the fuselage centre section when finally it starts to look like a proper aeroplane. The model is then fitted out with the foreplanes, undercarriage assemblies, nose and main wheel doors, bomb bay doors, (each with four hinge beams), cockpit hatches, pitot probes, wing gloves, and aerials. The prominent vortex generators have to be made up by the modeller using, as suggested by Revell, the small number tags off the sprues. You’re probably better off making them from suitable styrene sheet or even etched brass. Decals The decal sheet appears to have been designed by Revell and printed in Italy by Zanchetti. They are well printed, in good register and nicely opaque but with quite thick carrier film, particularly on the air refuelling marking and the aircraft codes. The decals are quite matt in appearance but should settle down well with the appropriate solutions. You do get a nice selection of stencils, but I’m not sure if you get a full ship worth. The no walk lines can be a little awkward if memory serves me well. Two options are provided, with markings for the following Rockwell B-1B Lancer, 77 Weapons Squadron, USAF Weapons School, Dyess AFB, Texas, October 2012 Rockwell B-1B Lancer, 116 Bomb Wing, Georgia Air National Guard, Robins AFB, Georgia, July 2000 Conclusion Considering the age of this kit I’m pleasantly surprised how well the mouldings are holding up. The change to styrene tyres from the old rubber ones is definitely a mistake, but a well known aftermarket company has announced that they will be releasing resin alternatives, as I have been writing this review. They have also announced a raft of other upgrade sets for this kit, which will help go a long way in building a more accurate model of the BONE, although it would have been better if Revell had ungraded their moulds so that the modeller didn’t have to have further expenditure. Apparently you may also require a box full of filler too as the fit can be a bit wayward if you’re not careful. Recommended Revell model kits are available from all good toy and model retailers. For further information visit
  6. Hi Everyone, I posted about this kit in my what should I build next thread and said that I wouldn't be settig up a WIP thread for this kit, but due to the amount of work involved in decalling this kit, I have decided to set one up. This kit is 1:72 scale (61.6 cm long with a 54.5 cm wingspan) and I am decalling this B1B as the "Eternal Guardian" of the 9th Bomb Squadron from the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess AFB, Texas. I have been working on the decals for 2 days and have so far got both of the sides complete and just started work on the top of the kit. Onto the photos. Tail Decal Nose Decals : Looking Down Full View Side View Full View Another reason why I have setup this WIP thread is because as you can tell by the use of the Aqua Colour pot that this big bird does not have any landing gear, this is because the gear collapsed and broke when I was assembling it originally due to the fitting method. I have studied the instructions and think I can do a better job this time, so I have contacted Revell and asked if they have the ability to get the massive list of parts for me and what it would cost. Obviously if anyone has any spare 1:72 Revell B-1B parts could they please let me know if they have landing gear sets ? Thanks for looking. Comments welcome. Cheers, Rick
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