neil5208 Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 (edited) Finish No5 for this year is Italeri's B58 Hustler in the rumoured SEA camo used on the Project Bullseye test program which used a B58 to use its sophisticated radar bombing system to guide a flight of F4 on night time raids of North Vietnam as the accuracy of the F4 was not great but it never got beyond trials due to political concerns that America latest most technical bomber could be shot down. The kit is not bad but has some issues with wing and engine mounting but otherwise is fairly straight forward. I used Caracal's decal set supplied by Billin after his excellent build last year, using the Project Bullseye test aircraft rather than doing a NMF scheme. There is 3 crew from Revells pilot set seated but only the pilot is still visible and the 4 Mk84's came from a Hasegawa weapon set. Paints are all Tamiya and no weathering was applied as the aircraft (if painted in this scheme) where on test for a short time. As usual all comment are welcome. Edited May 10, 2020 by neil5208 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HL-10 Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Nicely done! Good to see a different scheme for the Hustler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billn53 Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Beautiful! Too bad this is such a big aircraft, else I would do a camo version to go along with my NMF Hustler. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfman Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Lovely build on the Hustler, looks great in that colour scheme ! I found the brightly coloured stand a bit distracting. Wulfman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumblestripe Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Looks great in camo. Love the stand though there is a nagging voice in the back of my head saying "Stay out of the black and into the red, Nothing in this game for two in a bed." 🎯 😜 (With apologies to non UK non old-git readers!) 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booty003 Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 You have done a great job with this kit - bit of a tricky beast in places (mine is still WIP). Looks fab in SEA scheme as well - such a nice change. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmyg352 Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Great job & thanks for showing something I never knew existed, I've never seen a como'd Hustler before! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Great job on the Hustler. I would have loved to have seen the original, that scheme really suits it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Very cool work, that looks really good 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Nice job. Always think the B-58 looks like it’s going Mach2 even when sitting on the tarmac. Read a great book by one of the crew who explained just how much of his work was pumping fuel around the aircraft to keep it in limits. I wish I had seen one flying. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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