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B45
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 14, 2003 6:28 PM
Has anyone made a model of the North American B45 Tornado 4 engine bomber? We Had these in our squadron in England from 1955 to 1958. This plane was somewhat unusual and worthy of a kit I'd say.
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Posted by djmodels1999 on Saturday, February 15, 2003 1:36 AM
Back in the 80s, I know there was a 1/72 vacu kit, but can not remember who did it...
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 15, 2003 5:36 PM
I believe that a French company Called MACH manufactured this kit in 1/72 scale.
I heard the tooling was of poor quality and the kit was quite exoensive. This weas about ten years ago.
Good luck
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 16, 2003 1:23 AM
I believe FROG made one ages ago in an odd box scale. In 1/72 scale, The two mentioned above are correct. The vac kit was by a English company called Aeroform in the late 70's. The Mach2 kit should still be available (try Squadron) but it's short-run technology and pretty crude. I have one and it's gonna take a lot to get a good model out of that kit!

Regards,

Pat
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Posted by Woody on Wednesday, April 9, 2003 8:23 PM
I have an Aeroform B-45 vac on my to do pile. Looks decent enough for an early vac. Can be made as a B-45C or RB-45C and has a great decal sheet. Draw back is there is no other media but the vac parts.

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Posted by wipw on Friday, April 11, 2003 10:25 AM
Great Models (www.greatmodels.com) lists the Mach2 kit as a special order item for $48.60.
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Posted by Ray Marotta on Friday, April 11, 2003 10:48 AM
I'd love to see the B-45 as a 48th scale injection molded kit along with all variants
of the B-66 and A-3
Ray

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Posted by convair on Friday, May 9, 2003 5:15 PM
A firm called "Gerald J. Elliot vacuforms" has an 1/72 scale "vac" B-45; it comes with metal parts and is a reasonable good kit. BTW, "Gerald J. Elliot" is now the owner of many "Contrail vacuforms" molds/kits.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 25, 2003 6:39 PM
I have the Mach 2 "kit." If you pay more than $5 for it you will be disappointed and angry.
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Posted by Kagemusha on Monday, May 26, 2003 12:54 AM
ebay has a couple of the vacuform and the mach2 kits along with a flight manual listed
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