Big Bone

[Eddie M.]

I'm starting this big boy for my Uncle. I'll be posting it in the usual places if anyone wants to follow the build. Here's my daughter holding the big mug and as it sits on my bench. It takes up the whole thing!    
  Eddie

[Rafael]

What scale?
The size of that monster is incredible!!!
...and it is beautiful!!!
No doubt about a spectacular finish, specially with the help of that little assistant

Saludos.
Rafa

[Eddie M.]

Sorry, I forgot to mention it's the 1/48 scale. I have no idea what I'm gonna do when I put the wings on it. :dum:  
  Eddie  

[Jeffry Fontaine]

You have certainly taken on a real large project with that Revell kit.  Getting the wings to work will be easy, your real work is going to be getting the landing gear to fit and take the weight of the model after it is built.  IPMS had a very good build article on the B-One many years ago, if you can manage to find a copy of that article it would go into great detail on what needs to be done with that kit to get it to stay together.  

Are you going to try and build to represent current aircraft?  

[Howard of Effingham]

best of luck eddie!  

the RoG 1/72 B-1 seems big enough to me. looks like the modelling bench is gonna
have to get bigger for this bone.

brass/steel tube re-enforcements for the u/cart would be a good idea.

t.

[nev]

That one with your daughter is teh win.

[devil505]

I built that beast awhile back.  It weighed a ton when I was finished with it.

[GTX]

I have no idea what I'm gonna do when I put the wings on it.

Here's a couple of suggestions:

RAAF - they were offered;
PLAAF - Chinese copy.

Regards,

Greg

[Captain Canada]

Nice ! That thing is huge ! I keep thinking od snagging one whenever Hobby Lobby have their 50% off sale. Not that I want to build it or anything, I just want something that big !



PS-Love the idea of a Chinese copy !

[CanisD]

Built that about 20 years or so ago when it first came out. Wing droop was a major problem with the kit, not sure how much a real B-1's wings droop, but the kit was almost like a fully tanked B-52. You know a kit is big when its larger than the person holding it!

[Captain Canada]

Hey, easy now ! I have that problem with any medium sized 48th scale kit.....

     :dum:  

[cthulhu77]

HOLY MACKEREL !!!   That is going to be something great, for sure...you just keep on building bigger and bigger kits !
 Definitely reinforce the landing gear...the plastic ones will fail in a year or so...too much weight.

[Eddie M.]

Good thing for me, my Uncle wants gear up and blue cockpit glass instead using the cockpit itself. It's going to be hanging from a tall ceiling in his office. I will work to detail out the bomb bays. The only thing is I might try to do a conventional load instead of the payload it came with.
  Eddie  

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Using the kit supplied rotary launchers as a starting point, you can strap several 2000 pound bomb shapes to each of them to fill in the emptiness.  Or you can go for the big prize and try to scratch build the conventional munitions module that holds a butt load of Mk 82 500 pound GP bombs or similar size cluster bomb shapes.

[John Howling Mouse]

Good luck, Eddie.

Just remember the importance of capillary action for all those incredibly LOOOOONG joint-lines.

Good ol' Tenax-R, eh?