B-58 Hustler Italeri 1:72
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September 25, 2020The sign arrived today - and I can finally call this finished!2
September 13, 2020Display nearly finished. I'm just waiting for an engraved sign to arrive.3
August 29, 2020The final result! The patch is a replica and was bought on ebay. I think this calls for a proper display base - which I plan to build next.4
August 29, 20205
August 29, 20206
August 29, 20207
August 29, 2020Once more some heavy masking was involved to paint the black areas on the wing-engine pylon joints.8
August 23, 2020The filled in area will later be painted black (as on the original plane). That makes things a lot easier.9
August 23, 2020Did it hurt to scrape off the NMF to fix the inner engine pods? Absolutely!10
August 11, 2020Decals completed! Thanks Thomas for sharing the USAF lettering with me!11
August 9, 2020One side completed, the USAF lettering still missing. It's printed in dark blue (like the roundels) on the Fox One sheet. This would indeed be correct when you look at the official painting specs for the Hustler. However, in real life the USAF lettering seems to have been painted in black most of the time.12
August 9, 2020Not staged at all 😄13
August 9, 2020The pod number was put together from digits of several serial numbers from the Fox One sheet.14
July 21, 2020Starting to look the part 🙂15
June 28, 2020Alclad II Airframe Aluminium was used for the first NMF layer.16
June 20, 2020Alclad II gloss black primer was used to prepare the model for the Alclad II metal colours.17
June 20, 2020In the meantime I started with the MB-1 pod and decided to depict it in an red and white test-scheme.18
June 6, 202019
June 6, 2020The yellow part is the pointed nose of a Revell Fiat G.91 from the spares box. Now it represents the tail cone of an early Hustler.20
April 29, 2020As I won't show an open cockpit I can live with what's in the box. Only the three seats have been swapped for parts from the spares box as the early Hustler I want to depict didn't have the capsule ejection seats jet.21
April 29, 2020There was a nasty gap at the rear which I tried to close with some stretched sprue. Let's see how this turns out after some sanding.
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