Heavy Metal

[The Rat]

Martin, that looks so good it's frightening.        

[lancer]

That has got to be the best looking BUFF I've ever seen. Brilliant job Martin. Is she going to be at Yate next week?

[NARSES2]

Brilliant Martin - she does look better in the anti-flash white

Chris

[Madoc]

Martin,

That's just so.. wrong!  A BUFF in RAF "anti-flash" white?  Say what??!!!

Excellent work.  Very nicely done - and the refueling boom is a nice touch that furthers the distinctness.

Madoc

[Joe C-P]

Veeeery interesting...

I guess that would be painted Buff White, then?  

Nice work!  B)

JoeP

[Eddie M.]

That is very cool! B) Another one of my favorite aircraft done right.
   Eddie

[elmayerle]

Gorgeous one, Martin.

BTW, Joe, would that be a Convair "Texas" or a Convair "Ft. Worth"?   The first if they followed the 'precedent" of teh "Washington" but the second if they followed the "City name" approach.

[Geoff_B]

Nah have to be Texas B-1 Evan, after all everythings BIG in Texas, and the B-36 ain't exactly small .

G

[elmayerle]

Nah have to be Texas B-1 Evan, after all everythings BIG in Texas, and the B-36 ain't exactly small .

*Laughs* Works for me.   I'd love to see the "Aluminum Overcast" in RAF markings, no matter what name she was given.

[upnorth]

Nah have to be Texas B-1 Evan, after all everythings BIG in Texas, and the B-36 ain't exactly small .

*Laughs* Works for me.   I'd love to see the "Aluminum Overcast" in RAF markings, no matter what name she was given.

Wasn't the B-36 the "Magnesium Overcast"?

That BUFF looks great Martin. I was thinking about doing something similar with an old Revell/Crown 1/144 kit, but decided to trade it off instead.

I couldn't decide the best way to re-engine her (as a British variant certainly would have been) and how to depict ECM gear near the tail as British post war bombers were devoid of tail guns.

[Mike Wren]

 absolutely suberb Martin!  

good idea to leave the wings seperate too, might have to try one in 1/144 now... or maybe Dragon Wings will do a little 1/400 diecast one in the future that I can re-paint    

[Patrick H]

great Job Martin, it looks splendid in the white colors.



patrick

[elmayerle]

Gorgeous one, Martin.

BTW, Joe, would that be a Convair "Texas" or a Convair "Ft. Worth"?   The first if they followed the 'precedent" of teh "Washington" but the second if they followed the "City name" approach.

I thought of "Houston" for the B-47, on the basis of named after a city named after a general. Got any others?

Hadn't realised it was the city's name.

"Wichita" for the B-47 since most of them we built there?

[Ollie]

Good show Martin, that is class!

 

[nev]

"Wichita" for the B-47 since most of them we built there?

Isn't Wichita a pilots code word for something?  Can't remember what though...y'know like Bingo, Tally Ho, Feet Wet, Winchester etc