BOATMANS 1/48 th B58 hustler build with lights

[Littlemarten]

https://www.microscale.com/Merchant...e=MD&Product_Code=MI-12&Category_Code=FINPROD

https://www.scalehobbyist.com/catag...al-film/MIC00000012/product.php?kw=Microscale

 

[BOATMAN]

You are welcome to use mine if it helps.... PM

MANY THANKS P/M for the offer but ive ordered some now but cheers sir
chrisb

 

[BOATMAN]

HI ALL Well ive made a start on the nav lights in the wings an they are as thin as paper so had to gently burr out the thin wings to fit the nav lights in an got the thin wires in just but i have had to put on some millyput filler to fill up the burr but will sand down when its hard

 

[BOATMAN]

TOP VEIW OF NAV LIGHT

 

[BOATMAN]

UNDER SIDE view of starb side wing nav light

 

[BOATMAN]

an top veiw

 

[BOATMAN]

an both on the big full width delta wing an they show loverly

 

[BOATMAN]

HI GUYS well the hustler build is still goin great guns lol an yesterday i spent all day just tryin to see if i have all the parts as the plastic bags had been opened an quite a few parts were broken off their spruse so i think someone treid to build this an realised they were in over their head an gave up sharpish an sold it on ebay an along come mugs own an bougght it lol but well so far ive mandged to sort out the complicated three sets of undercarts two main ones an the front parts an boy is it complicated as tony (yakface ) warned me an he is right an here in this pic are all the parts that go to make up the undercarts an i can see why the other person sherked off an dint try an build it BUT NOT ME im goin to build this

 

[BOATMAN]

an some pics of them undercarts what ive got to build an im getting a vauge idea of how all this goes togeather as my old fossil brain is in high gear as im lovin this kit SO FAR an im jumping up to the undercarts as ive got to fit in the landing light which i have done this morn an wow they were tall must be 15 ft tall on them back main gear

 

[BOATMAN]

AN this is what ive got to build

 

[BOATMAN]

clearer view of that main undercart

 

[BOATMAN]

anyone know what paint i should use for the burned metal on the enginges an where i can get some

 

[BOATMAN]

AN THE COLOURS im goin to do her in should look nice

 

[BOATMAN]

AN today i have been building the front undercart as i got to buld them all to fit on the landing lights an here i have fitted some glass lences an when its lit up glass gives the lenceing effeckt so the 2mm led look a lot brighter an so tomorrow i will go back onto them main landing gears to finish them off if i can understand how they all fit

chrisb

 

[Pantherman]

anyone know what paint i should use for the burned metal on the enginges an where i can get some View attachment 195296

I sometimes use vallejo rust for that metal brown colour. Pantherman

 

[BOATMAN]

I sometimes use vallejo rust for that metal brown colour. Pantherman

OK P/M thanks for the info
chrisb

 

[Pantherman]

OK P/M thanks for the info
chrisb

This is the stuff. PM

 

[Marauder1981]

AN NOW the spruces with the long thin fusealarge an there should be 3 canopyies but im leaving it as it is View attachment 194140

If that bench could talk... oh the stories it would tell. Now THAT's a well worn workspace. Looks like modern art, in and of itself!

 

[Marauder1981]

anyone know what paint i should use for the burned metal on the enginges an where i can get some View attachment 195296

With respect to metallic paint, I rolled the dice on Alclad metallic lacquers a year ago (having never used them before). I applied them to an ancient F100 kit I rehabilitated from the 1970s. Alclad recommends laying down their gloss black primer first. I'm not sure that's necessary or if it is just their means of selling more paint, lol But I did as they recommended and was very pleased with the results! So much so, I have some aircraft kits in the stash I'm looking forward to doing in all-metal and Alclad will be the choice for me.

 

[BOATMAN]

If that bench could talk... oh the stories it would tell. Now THAT's a well worn workspace. Looks like modern art, in and of itself!

HI @Marauder1981 YES ive built several models over the last 30 odd yrs
on this old bench an yes the stories an the swearing when things go wrong which is quite often but jen tells me off so i have to bite my tounge an modern art lol yes i'll have to put it in to the tate lol
chrisb

 

[BOATMAN]

With respect to metallic paint, I rolled the dice on Alclad metallic lacquers a year ago (having never used them before). I applied them to an ancient F100 kit I rehabilitated from the 1970s. Alclad recommends laying down their gloss black primer first. I'm not sure that's necessary or if it is just their means of selling more paint, lol But I did as they recommended and was very pleased with the results! So much so, I have some aircraft kits in the stash I'm looking forward to doing in all-metal and Alclad will be the choice for me.

well im goin to exsperiment on a spare bit of plasti card to see if what p/m said will go with humbroll paints as the last thin i want is crazeing on the paints

 

[BOATMAN]

HELLO CHAPS
WELL after two whole days of trying to get this back main undercart built an a whole lot of swearing as swear box is full i think i got them beat but i can see why the chap who had it before me in his stash for about 30 odd yrs or more chickened out of building it NEVER in all my modeling yrs have i ever seen a undercart so complicated but i think ive got them on the ropes an beat here are some pics for you all of how complex it was building they are not finished yet as i cant fit the fineal parts till the units are fitted in the wings i think the design chap at convair must have been havin a bad day an front veiw left an right i think

 

[BOATMAN]

AN side veiw of both units

 

[BOATMAN]

FRONT UNDERCART has had the lights coverd with humbroll maskoll
an the lot of them ready for spaying

 

[BOATMAN]

here the top wing section with them nav light fitted an how i fitted in the wireing an i had to strech the wires as the wings are very thin so i can close up the top an bottom wings an they are still not finished as i ve got to fit them in the bottom wing before i can fit a main struts
chrisb

 

[Down Time]

Wow!!! That's looking great!!!!!

 

[BOATMAN]

HI Downtime many thank for them hustler pics will be a great help to me when i get to building her now im near finished them bloomin back main undercarts
this was the plane that broke all the rules
CHEERS SIR
chrisb

 

[Down Time]

I love that plane, pictures I took were at the Air Force Museum in Dayton.

 

[BOATMAN]

I love that plane, pictures I took were at the Air Force Museum in Dayton.

WOW you are so lucky to have such marverlous planes like this B58 an the XB70 an the space shuttle as in england we have nothing like them an this country is boreing i find only place i can get to see some decent american planes like the blackbird or others is at duxford air museum but i got to see all the B planes at a airshow at RAF COLTISHALL in the early 70's but i see a hustler there brilliant it was but could not afford a camera back in those days
ATB
Chrisb

 

[Ron2]

AN NOW the spruces with the long thin fusealarge an there should be 3 canopyies but im leaving it as it is View attachment 194140

Looks more like a rocket!