I just wrapped up work on this ancient Hasegawa kit of the B-47E Stratojet.
This is a relatively recent boxing, but the mold goes back to the late 1960s. And as such, the kit shows its age. There is absolutely no detail for the interior of this bomber. There are a couple of pilots and ejection seats, but no console or IP detail, not even decals as one typically finds. But the ridiculously thick canopy part obscures 99.9% of what you can see in the cockpit, so I didn't worry myself over that issue.
Fit is so-so. I believe it is intended to be built wheels-down, but since mine was intended to "fly" alongside the Monogram B-36 on my workshop ceiling, I had a good fight on my hands to align the gear doors to be somewhat flush with the surrounding fuselage plastic. I didn't take any photos of the underside, but I was able to mostly get the gear doors (and bomb bay doors as well) flush. The underside is just not very photogenic IMO. The wing gear doors were truly awful - no locator pins or indications of how they should be affixed into "in flight" mode.
Paints are Tamiya white, Tamiya lacquer flat black, Tamiya lacquer flat red, and AK Interactive XTreme Metals - matte aluminum, dark aluminum, white aluminum, jet exhaust, and gun metal.
And here is the 72nd Stratojet along with the Academy 1/144 Stratojet I built many years ago, as a first attempt at using foil to do the NMF.
I've been wondering why Monogram did not choose to kit this bomber. They did the -36 and -52 in 72nd scale. Seems like this one would have been a good choice. Heck, they could have done this one in 48th.
Next up will be a couple of Star Wars ships.