Building
of this model became a long story. It took approximately 1 year to build it
straight out-of-box. It was repainted three times due to structural damages
caused by “test flights from the shelf”. I didn’t use any of aftermarket
set’s because at the time I started it I didn’t know anything about resins
and PE. Anyway I think this kit is good enough without any additions. As a
prototype I chose aircraft from 366th WG, famous 391st FS
“Bold Tigers”. Building didn’t give me anything except pleasure,
everything is fit, so I used minimum of putty, mostly on wing-to-body fairing.
Basic painting was done by Tamiya aerosol decanted into airbrush, small post
shading was done using Tamiya acrylics.
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Decals
from kit had really good quality, I used also some tech stencils from
other kits which I have. The armament has almost standard configuration,
except GBU-10, which I added onto CFT pylons. And of course GBU-28
“Bunker Buster”, just like the kit name.
Finally
I’d like to thank www.scalemodels.ru
and all my buddies there. Hope I will build this kit couple of times more,
because I really liked it.
Alexander Gromov
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