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Staff Sergeant
Ahoy fellas
While my PV-1 Ventura Bomber is drying its time to start another build. Here I have a old 1995 re-issue kit od the Monogrtam B-52 Buff. This is the second kit I have ever done... The first kit of this I bought in 1968 the cost was $14.00 it was the most expensive and largest kit in ejection molded plastic in the world at that time perhaps there might have been some vacuform kits out there but it was unknown to me that any existed... With the $14.00 kit price you got a electric motor that replicated the sound of the jet engines pure gimic it had a switch under the right wing that turned the motor off and on.. It was molded in dark green plastic in vietnam scheme. Seems to me everytime Monogram re-issues this kit its still in the vietnam colors dont know why they go to the all aluminum version and with a new decal sheet. Like they say beggers are not choosers it is what it is. As to the paint schedule I been thinking about painting her as she was at Edwards AFB as a X-15 Mother ship All aluminum with Dayglo Orange tail and Nose sections with a X-15 attachede to the wing pod under the wing much food for though on this one... The detail on this kit its not to bad but a lot of the interier parts could have been done better such as the bulkheads that close in the wheel well ends and Bomb bay but back in those days there was no must for nit picking you were satisfied in what you got most of us were happy campers. Another option that monogram added is the three eyes used for hanging the model up for hanging high school of modeling back then there were no amagination for dioramas with a model this huge they assumed you are to hang up the model for display. I wouldn,t suggest hanging the model up useing these eyes on my last build I used this method a week later theys broke off the model hit the deck and it was ruined I threw it away cussing at myself. So if you are going to hang up this model dont use those molded in eyes you will see them on the pictures coming up. Here is a few pictures of my Big Buff.
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While my PV-1 Ventura Bomber is drying its time to start another build. Here I have a old 1995 re-issue kit od the Monogrtam B-52 Buff. This is the second kit I have ever done... The first kit of this I bought in 1968 the cost was $14.00 it was the most expensive and largest kit in ejection molded plastic in the world at that time perhaps there might have been some vacuform kits out there but it was unknown to me that any existed... With the $14.00 kit price you got a electric motor that replicated the sound of the jet engines pure gimic it had a switch under the right wing that turned the motor off and on.. It was molded in dark green plastic in vietnam scheme. Seems to me everytime Monogram re-issues this kit its still in the vietnam colors dont know why they go to the all aluminum version and with a new decal sheet. Like they say beggers are not choosers it is what it is. As to the paint schedule I been thinking about painting her as she was at Edwards AFB as a X-15 Mother ship All aluminum with Dayglo Orange tail and Nose sections with a X-15 attachede to the wing pod under the wing much food for though on this one... The detail on this kit its not to bad but a lot of the interier parts could have been done better such as the bulkheads that close in the wheel well ends and Bomb bay but back in those days there was no must for nit picking you were satisfied in what you got most of us were happy campers. Another option that monogram added is the three eyes used for hanging the model up for hanging high school of modeling back then there were no amagination for dioramas with a model this huge they assumed you are to hang up the model for display. I wouldn,t suggest hanging the model up useing these eyes on my last build I used this method a week later theys broke off the model hit the deck and it was ruined I threw it away cussing at myself. So if you are going to hang up this model dont use those molded in eyes you will see them on the pictures coming up. Here is a few pictures of my Big Buff.
Boats
