Hi,

I started with the painting of the Bone applying a light grey primer overall, and a matt black one on the upper wings to retain the walkways out of that layer hiding em with masking tape.

I also added PE antennas, and the GPS one made out of a sprue slice




primers





more pix to come !

Best regards,

Richard

Salut Richard!

Just a little question: this seems to be a BIG model, what paint did you use and, more important, how many! I don't know if someone makes 500ml bottles! :-)

Jean-Luc

Hi Jean Luc,

For the primers I used a full Humbrol cup (un pot complet quoi !) of ref 1, and half a ref 33 for the wings.

for the undrsurfaces I used to little bottles of Tamiya ref TS48

For the upper surfaces and for the under weathering I have foreseen three Humbrol 125 cups, hope it will be enough !

kind of an "industrial" project, huh ?

Cheers,
Salut,

Richard

That is really coming together well now Richard. The bomb bays look fantastic. Keep the pics coming.
Andy (++)

Hi,

I found Tamiya TS48 was too dark and deep so I tried and mixed Humbrol 125 with white ref 34 and found a good color at 75/25. It looks like the color on the real one




The table diameter is 110 cm...

Walkways uncovered.

4 full cups of Humbrol were necessary to wrap the Bone around !

Regards

Richard

Hi all !

My B-1B is over !!!!!

Here we go:













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Your comments will all be appreciated !

Cheers,

Richard

Salut Richard!

Now that's a big piece!

Congratulations on a job well done! How did you shoot the "in flight" pictures? did you hold the model with one hand ?
I also like the simple base idea with only one figure to make a contrast with the huge plane! Bien vu!

Jean-Luc

Hi all,

Thanks Jean-Luc !!

Yes I did hold the model with on hand for the in flight pix !

Wanna see some more ?





















































These end an 8 months building process !

Cheers,

Richard

Hi Richard!

Impressive pictures! 8 months? You could almost have made a baby in that timeframe... :-)
The level of detail is fantastic... are these small flies impacts on the forward fuselage?

Jean-Luc

It looks awesome

Hi !

Thanks for your comments !

Jean-Luc you're a good observer ! The impacts you can see on the nose are the inflight refuelling boom's hits from a KC135... They show on every and any Bone.

Best regards

Richard