After seeing the RAF V-bombers in their overall anti-flash white schemes, the USAF decided to pursue the concept on the B-47. Airframe 12212, with the 306 Bombardment Wing was the first aircraft converted to a solid-nose configuration and painted all white, with the rest of the wing following later.
This is the Hobbycraft kit, not bad, certainly good enough for a quick build. Parts of the instructions could be better, and the outrigger gear is not well thought out. It should have been designed with a little more care, in order to prevent it from taking all the support and lifting the main gear off the surfce. Instead, they assume that it may do that, and tell you to trim them as needed. Not an easy task, because there are no indications of where it would be best to cut, and you need to shorten two pieces for each leg. Mine does, indeed, lift the mains off the ground, but I'll just live with it. Paints were Tamiya X-2 white, black parts were whatever was in reach at the time I did each piece, wheel bay green was Vallejo. Decals needed a coat of Microscale Liquid Decal Film, which, of course, I only figured out after the first decal broke, but fortunately it was salvaged.
So there you have it. I just wanted to see one in an all-white scheme, no other reason for the build. Sometimes I'm easy to please.
