The B-47 is one of those airplanes that has always been one of my favorites, both elegant in appearance and one of the major milestones in the history of aircraft design. Over 1500 were built, and besides politics it may have been what made the Air Force give up on the YB-49, since it had the same range and was 100 mph faster. I used the Pavla resin cockpit and engine sets, which also provide a vacuform canopy. The kit canopy has major coke bottle disease. The decals are crocodiled from the years the kit has been in my stash, so Microscale decals were used. I would not use the resin engine set again as it made little improvement and had fit problems. The resin cockpit and vacuform canopy were well worth the effort. A resin set was used to drop the flaps, which required cutting the wings appropriateley in the flap area. The set was very fragile and needed a lot of work to get rid of layering marks from the printing process.
Not a quick build but just one of those subjects that has to be in my collection. I made decal strips to frame the canopy.
