Sanger B-52 First preparations

Thomas Bischoff
I take a seat!

Stephan Ryll
I'm in too🙂

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Eeek! Huge! And a vacform? Masochist 😄 This will be interesting.

Francky Författare
I admit, masochism is certainly part of it: no details, no fit, no position pens, no … but with some patience a fantastic kit, given a new all new meaning to "modelling"

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
I'll take a seat,,, yeap pure masochism ,,, like it !

Clifford Keesler
Wow a 1/48 B-52, count me in.

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@Francky Talking of modelling and masochism, try free-flight balsa models next then... 😄

Maciej Bellos
Humongus kit, with quite a dose of masochism as the previous guys said. Definately in!

Paulo Almeida
I'm also in to watch some suffering :-D But you're going strong, keep it up!

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We are a mean lot 😄

Augie
Very watching this for my own one!

Dave Flitton
Oh the masochism we shall see, imagine the weeping and wailing, this is going to be an awesome build!!!

Bart Goesaert
Nice to see this one actually... splendid work so far...

Clifford Keesler
Nice job so far.

Bryn Crandell
Oh lord what were you thinking Frankcy? I'm to watch the torturous process. Looking good so far by the way.

Slavo Hazucha
Salute to the brave! 👍 Flashback to the days of childhood frustration... 🙂

Björn Svedberg
Really interesting project, I'm in! 👍

Daniel
is sitting down with popcorn

Francky Författare
This kit is a strange combination of modelling, scratch building, and ... strategy.

It is uttely important NOT to join any of the parts together too soon but to patiently add detail, take measurements, align parts ... and scan pictures on the net. Being impatient and joining two pieces permanently only leads to dispear as in the next step you will definitively need to be able to go to the "inside" of those parts.

In addtion, it helps when you know all the available sizes and sheet thickness of the entire evergreen range by heart.

I work on this BUFF in between other projects, not only to avoid frustration (modelling is about fun, isn't it) but mostly to allow me to think about the next step from a distance and that unhelpful urge to glue things together. I have an "I have all the time in the world" attitude on this one. After all, there was a tiny 10 years in between ordering the kit and receiving it, so a year more or less is not that important anymore.

Being overly ambitious and wanting to construct this thing with the flaps and airbrakes open doesn't help fast progress either

If all goes well I will be able to upload another album in a few weeks time.

@Bryn: I am pretty sure I was NOT thinking when buying this thing. I could just FEEL the roar again of 4 B-52 thundering over the public at Fairford Air Tattoo sometime in the early 1980's.