Hasegawa

[kitnut617]

may be the only injection kit of this aircraft.

FROG did one, many years ago, in 1/207scale. It did not have any undercarriage.

Jim

Big Book says:

Allyn 1/146 (50's desktop)
Aurora 1/180 (reboxed by Marusan)
Comet 1/205 (reboxed by Aurora, Comet Series, Frog, Kleeware, Tri-ang/France, Tri-ang/NZ)
Hasegawa 1/72 (reboxed by AMT, Frog, Minicraft)
Hobbycraft 1/144
Revell 1/185
YMC 1/130

[NARSES2]

Good I was not mistaken - for once  

[Weaver]

Different boxings of the same moulds were going for £38 at Crewe today.

[Gondor]

may be the only injection kit of this aircraft.

FROG did one, many years ago, in 1/207scale. It did not have any undercarriage.

Jim

Big Book says:

Allyn 1/146 (50's desktop)
Aurora 1/180 (reboxed by Marusan)
Comet 1/205 (reboxed by Aurora, Comet Series, Frog, Kleeware, Tri-ang/France, Tri-ang/NZ)
Hasegawa 1/72 (reboxed by AMT, Frog, Minicraft)
Hobbycraft 1/144
Revell 1/185
YMC 1/130

Glad to know I was wrong, would be nice to see a new moulding though

Gondor

[JayBee]

I had a sneaking suspicion that the old FROG one was a re-box of the Comet one.
The others that I remember, and these may not have been Comet, were:

B-66
P2V Neptune
C-119
Short Sealand
DHC-2 Beaver
DH Dragon Rapide, I have still got that one in a built and unpainted condition!

Alistair, I think you may be too young to remember these. 

Jim

[PR19_Kit]

I've got a FROG re-box of the Hasegawa moulding, which dates it of course, but it's still quite crisp.

I've been building it into an RB-47H for some years using the DB Models resin upgrade (same as the current Flightpath conversion) I want to add the big 'Silver King' pod hung on the starboard side, but have yet to decide what to make it from.

There's a fair amount if upgrade stuff available for the kit, mostly by Pavla, so it's good but not cheap.

[kitnut617]

I've been building it into an RB-47H for some years using the DB Models resin upgrade (same as the current Flightpath conversion) I want to add the big 'Silver King' pod hung on the starboard side, but have yet to decide what to make it from.

I've got one of those DB conversions too Kit --- that big pod looks like an F-101 fuel tank --- edit; actually, maybe an early C-130 tank, the smaller one

[Captain Canada]

RB-47 eh ?

Don't think I've ever heard of that one ! Love all them lumps and bumps. I've got that box scale one as well as the Hasegawa example. One of those would be interesting !

[rickshaw]

I've heard of the RB-47 but not of the pod.  What did it contain?

[Captain Canada]

Google it in the image search...loads of great models built and info on it, some cut aways etc.



http://www.modelingmadness.com/others/features/rb47details/Antennas.jpg

[PR19_Kit]

IIRC there were only three RB-47Hs built and the same number of Silver King pods, but they didn't carry the pod on every mission.

[Gondor]

I had a sneaking suspicion that the old FROG one was a re-box of the Comet one.
The others that I remember, and these may not have been Comet, were:

B-66
P2V Neptune
C-119
Short Sealand
DHC-2 Beaver
DH Dragon Rapide, I have still got that one in a built and unpainted condition!

Alistair, I think you may be too young to remember these. 

Jim

Jim, I do realise that I have to bear the cross of youth compared to yourself although some of our ranks are in that situation with regard to me 

Gondor aka Alastair

[JayBee]

IIRC there were only three RB-47Hs built and the same number of Silver King pods, but they didn't carry the pod on every mission.

According to M.J. Bowers in the Putnam book, 32 RB-47H's were built.
3 ERB-47H's were converted from B-47E's.
All were used for "special" reconnaissance missions.

jim

[PR19_Kit]

Ah right, I knew there was a 'three' involved in there somewhere. 

I have a large tome on the B-47 'filed away' in the chaos that is my house, I'll have to dig it out. I dug the part built (VERY part....) RB-47H kit out of its hiding place this morning and it reminded me just how far the plastic modelling business has progressed in the last 40 yrs or so. Basic it certainly is! I may shell out for some of those Pavla upgrades, the cockpit interior and the massive canopy could certainly do with some attention.

[famvburg]

My first thought of the pod was a T-33 tip tank. Maybe a 1/48 scale one.