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B 52 Stratofortress 1/48 does anyone make one?

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Posted by seasick on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 9:44 PM

I built the 1/72 B-52D when I was a teenager. It was a monster, a 1/48 scale kit would be huge. You'll need a table to display it.

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Posted by Jim Barton on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 12:01 PM

A 1/48-scale B-52 would be impracticably enormous for the vast majority of us. Where would you put the darn thing? Even a 1/72-scale one has a wingspan bigger than my twin bed.

Wasn't there a 1/48-scale B-52 pictured in FSM a long time ago that somebody scratchbuilt?

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Posted by Jon_a_its on Thursday, February 18, 2016 2:42 PM
The Sanger kit in 1/48TH or a polish card kit in 1/33rd off eBay.... Aside from this being a double ressurected zombie thread?

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Posted by yardbird78 on Thursday, February 18, 2016 3:12 PM

I have seen that Sanger 1/48th BUFF on ebay a time or two several years ago.  If I remember correctly, it sold for around $300 US.  That thing would take up half of a room once completed and you would need a HUGE work bench to build it.

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The B-52 and me, we have grown old, gray and overweight together.

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Posted by cb1 on Thursday, February 18, 2016 4:09 PM

way back in high school, my friends brother built one.

he hand painted it with the old testors square bottles. It took something like 5 bottles of flat black to brush paint the underside.

the thing was massive. LOL Surprise

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Posted by tempestjohnny on Thursday, February 18, 2016 8:23 PM

cb1

way back in high school, my friends brother built one.

he hand painted it with the old testors square bottles. It took something like 5 bottles of flat black to brush paint the underside.

the thing was massive. LOL Surprise

 

Yea but that's a 1/72nd scale

 

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Posted by seastallion53 on Friday, February 19, 2016 5:08 PM

Awhile back in a hobby shop nearby someone was building a 1/48 resin B-52.i don't know who makes it but yeah it was huge.i have a 1/36 scale paper model on a CD although i have yet to print it out.

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Posted by Jon_a_its on Saturday, February 20, 2016 2:01 AM

According to http://www.sangereng.fsnet.co.uk/boeing_52.htm  after another 6 years.... the B52 is #......

 

nearly ready.... Surprise

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Posted by Jon_a_its on Saturday, February 20, 2016 2:02 AM

seastallion53

Awhile back in a hobby shop nearby someone was building a 1/48 resin B-52.i don't know who makes it but yeah it was huge.i have a 1/36 scale paper model on a CD although i have yet to print it out.

 

reduce to 75% for 1/48th!

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Posted by Depfife on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 7:34 PM

Awood23
Im pretty sure the largest B-52 your gonna find is going to be 1/72 1/48 would be rediculously huge.
 

Huge, but still want one.. All my other models are

 1/48

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Posted by Depfife on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 7:37 PM

I would love one too! All my other models are 1/48

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