B-52G Griffiss AFB overall gray-1/200 DML B-52G

[Hazegray]

This kit should be here Friday. I am doing it in it’s final camo scheme of dark gray.

[jimb]

Nice! I actually live down the road (so to speak) from Griffiss.

Jim

[Hazegray]

I drove out that way many times on my way to visit my ex brother in law. He lived in Palmyra NY and I traveled from the Berkshires in MA. Nice ride till my brother in law introduced me to “the Can Of Worms”. There was a nice F-86A at a VFW not far from him near the Finger Lakes where I camped.Went to a great air show out that way in the early 2000s at a giant grass field with lotsa Lancasters, Spitfires, Hurricanes andT6 Texans.

[Wig41]

I know that aircraft pretty well. I was stationed at Griff when they parked that thing in its spot. Even got to climb up into the cockpit. Good luck with the build.

[Hazegray]

The kit has arrived. No to wash the plastic.

[Hazegray]

I have 16 grams of forward fuselage weight and the fuselage glued up.

[Hazegray]

More parts added to the fuselage.

[Hazegray]

The wings are assembled.

[Hazegray]

I puttied and sanded a few seams, added the rear fuselage an quad 50 cal. gun then the tail.

[Wig41]

You are progressing nicely.

[Hazegray]

The wings and horizontal stabilizers are glued on.

[Hazegray]

The engines are assembled.

[Hazegray]

Note-the engines front section with the intake compressor fans is upside down in the instructions. I had to flip item D2 to get them oriented right. the small scoops should be under the intake fan and the way Dragon molded it it would be on the top. you have to enlarge a hole in the engine nacelles to accept the intake part D2 correctly.