discussion BOATMANS XB-70 Valkyrie in 1/72 scale

[boatman]

AN POSTIE brought this today an like the hustler its a whopper an the decals are near as big as my hustler ones so hopefully if my hustler decals crash then hopefully i can ask ITALERI wheather they will sell me a set of the decals for this as they are near the same size an near same decals
chrisb

 

[boatman]

an the decals set

 

[Geoffers]

Sounds like a good plan Chris

Geoff.

 

[yak face]

An amazing aircraft chris , and a mighty impressive model in 1/72 ( and huge too) I never got round to getting this one , maybe one day

 

[Steve-the-Duck]

Built that thing waaay back when it was first released

It's a bit large!

 

[flyjoe180]

Very nice of the Postie to give you this Chris

 

[Richard48]

AN POSTIE brought this today an like the hustler its a whopper an the decals are near as big as my hustler ones so hopefully if my hustler decals crash then hopefully i can ask ITALERI wheather they will sell me a set of the decals for this as they are near the same size an near same decals
chrisbView attachment 1291210

Good lord Mr B what a whopper.I was given an Airfix 1.24th Spitfire kit the other day which is started.Taxi driver friend got it at a car boot.Lord knows what i will do with it!!!!!.
Richard

 

[boatman]

Good lord Mr B what a whopper.I was given an Airfix 1.24th Spitfire kit the other day which is started.Taxi driver friend got it at a car boot.Lord knows what i will do with it!!!!!.
Richard

HI Richard yes i was hopeing to get a 1/48 th scale in this kit just as well i dint an got a 1/72 scale as its as big as the hustler in 1/48th scale lookin forward to building it after ive built that big F16 that airborne sent me an will you build that big spity ?
chrisb

 

[boatman]

BUT MIND YOU this 1/72 SCALE XB-70 was a tiddler compared to my scrachbuilt
XB-70 I BUILT when i was younger an here a pic of me holding it an it was about 9 ft long an was built for free flight with 6 jet engines in it an it flew a feilds lenght until it hit a tree oh dear

 

[boatman]

an here a shot of it standing on our garden path an it had blow up tryes but sorry about the pic as it must be near 50 yrs old as i was only about 20 yrs old or so then