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F-277 Boeing B-47E Strato-Jet (Hasegawa) ++++ Finished ++++


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As knitting (aka rigging) is still taking place my two current builds, this 

 

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has been siting in my stash for over 40 years and calling out to be built.

 

So here are the sprue shots

 

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Seems a simple build, I just need to invest in some rattle cans and possibly new decals as I fancy a Lakenheath based aircraft.

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I was hoping one of these big jets would make an appearance Paul, so thanks for adding it here. The B-47 has always been one of my favourite 'aircraft that I don't have' type of subjects and something tells me that these moulds will still be around in another 40 years from now. We wish you the best of luck. 

 

Cheers.. Dave 

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I always remember this kit due to its enormous box, but I've never seen a built one, delighted that this will soon be remedied !

Look forward to the next instalment 

 

cheers Pat

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Looking forward to this one, I picked up the latest boxing recently (after I off loaded an older one last year).

 

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I have a Pavla cockpit to go in mine and plenty of Wolfpak decal options to use on it when I get around to it.

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Following @adey m ' s build I did a dry run assembly as he pointed out the under cart boxes and the bomb-bay are installed after the fuselage is glued together, I didn't have any fit problems so will construct the model in he order of he instructions.

 

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I also wanted to see how much of the cockpit would be visible after building as I don't usually bother detailing areas that cannot be seen

 

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Most of the enhancement will be through paint rather than 3rd party add ons or scratch building.

 

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It is a nice model, though mine is a bit plain in appearance as I am not good at "silver" finishes. I did consider getting some more colourful decals but in the end stuck with those in the box. I will look forward to seeing how you paint it - got to be better than my effort! Not certain if I ever saw one in "real life", though I do recall a string of USAF planes passing over my house back in the late 1950's/early 60's when they were attending an airshow at the local airport - Yeadon as it was then, now Leeds/Bradford. It was a gloomy overcast day so all I saw were dark silhouettes, but I think there may have been an F100 and an F101, and possibly a B47, but that could just be my memory playing tricks.

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The Hasegawa kit sat in my local model shop for years when I was a teenager. 

Brings back some nice memories but I don't think I've seen one built up either 

 

John 

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On 7/3/2019 at 3:37 PM, PeterB said:

It is a nice model, though mine is a bit plain in appearance as I am not good at "silver" finishes.

Heres a great option for anyone that isn't happy with NMF on builds. 

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The photo's are from Pinterest and had no captions. However I'm sure some digging will help determine the planes history. 

 

Dennis

 

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5 minutes ago, JOCKNEY said:

But best make your own mind up what colour it is 

Funnily enough, if I was to play the B&W photo interpretation game (without the aid of the colour photo), I doubt I would have picked orange. Yellow, however would have been a big possibility! 

 

Cheers.. Dave. 

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Just now, Rabbit Leader said:

Funnily enough, if I was to play the B&W photo interpretation game (without the aid of the colour photo), I doubt I would have picked orange. Yellow, however would have been a big possibility! 

 

Cheers.. Dave. 

Play nicely now ! :bleh:

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For the first time in a few days I was able to return to my workbench, and now three of my builds are close to completion the B-47 is hogging rather too much space, therefore I thought I'd tackle that this evening,

 

Nearly all of the build consists is a number of sub-assemblies and I fairly quickly cleared most of the first stages:

 

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One interesting feature is the lack of locating pins on nearly all of the parts.

 

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But this did not prove to be much of an issue.

 

The majority of the sub-assemblies is the bomb-load, but I am not included these in my build as they are being donated to another GB.that is in progress.

 

 

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In my Moth pair build thread I said that the Novo Gypsy Moth was the worst kit I had encountered. The B-47 is a delight, despite the lack of locating pins it just falls together, I have been away from this particular build for a while but two evenings work means I have reached this stage:

 

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The Moth is there are a size comparison note to oneself must look at that prop' when I go back to the workbench!

 

On Friday will be visiting town with my LMS so will probably get some Humbrol rattle cans for the silver and white.

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See - who says size doesn't matter? Two evenings worth of work is a small outlay to get that far on the B-47. That's my kinda building. 

Cheers.. Dave 

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As I recall the wheel arrangement means that unlike the B52 with a similar set up, the B47 does not need nose weight - could be wrong?

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39 minutes ago, PeterB said:

As I recall the wheel arrangement means that unlike the B52 with a similar set up, the B47 does not need nose weight - could be wrong?

The main undercarriage on the B-47 is so far aft it would almost be impossible to get it to tail sit, unless you filled the back end with something denser than lead.

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1 hour ago, stever219 said:

unless you filled the back end with something denser than lead.

Hope you are not setting me a challenge there. Have you seen the price of Gold and Platinum these days? Mercury would be interesting although lethal as are some of the other denser elements..

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This is not some little known camo' scheme

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rather I am using Halfords Filler Primer, which I have found in the past gives good results. As you can see some minor filling, all the fuselage filling probably could have been avoided with a bit more attention, and tape, at the gluing stage.

 

At end of day today the sanding is complete. Before I apply paint I want to work out whether silver over white or the other way round gives the best result. Both will be rattle  cans. 

 

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On 8/12/2019 at 6:01 AM, Paul821 said:

Before I apply paint I want to work out whether silver over white or the other way round gives the best result

Great progress on this biggie Paul. Now I would have thought that silver over white would tend to give a grey-ash result. Silver over gloss black however does certainly bring out the sheen in the metallic silver paint. Might be best to test these combinations on a scrap model first. 

 

Cheers.. Dave 

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Spent part of this evening applying masking tape. The fuselage on this one is the longest length of tape I have applied outside of  1:1 modelling aka house decorating and car painting. Following the hint someone else posted on BM I them painted over the edges of the tape to avoid leakage. I cannot recall who gave the tip (not in this build0 - but appreciated. Tomorrow brush painting silver. Have mentioned the length of tape - I have entered a RB-36 in the "Year I was born GB!

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Looking forward to seeing the pics, and as for the RB-36 - wow, that's a big aeroplane.

 

Must crack out Strategic Air Command with James Stewart to get me in the mood - a very good film.

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