Convair B-58 Hustler

Bernd Korte
Thanks guys! @Gustavo: Your models look very good to me. I don't see any reason why you should not build your B-58! My NMF is far from flawless, by the way. Taking nice photos is at least 50% of the presentation.

Lochsa_River
Ah yes...how many times have i said..."Lets make sure this flaw isn't prominent in the photos."

great work so far....

Gary Dahlström
Does anyone else work on a 'good' side of the model, e.g., all the best tiny painted parts go on the 'good' side? I had an extreme case of this with the 35 year old cable car kit. Some of the handrails and a step were no longer straight, and one of the decals disintegrated in water - i had to piece it back together as "Poell & Hyde". Those went on the 'other' side.;)

Looks terrific Bernd, looking forward to the finished result.

Gustavo Sarmento
@Bernd Corte Thank you for your kind words! Hope to start the Hustler sooner rather than later, and let's see how it turns out.

Bernd Korte
Thanks for your nice comments!
@Lochsa_River! Fortunately most of the time only oneself knows where to look for all the flaws
@Gary Dahström: That's an interesting approach. Perhaps it makes sense to work that way when you know that the model will be displayed with only one side visible in the display cabinet.

Bernd Korte
Decal work is now halfway done. Only one issue emerged: Fox One has printed the USAF lettering in the same blue as the USAF roundel. That would indeed be correct when you look at the official painting specifications of that time for the Hustler. However, it seems that not all paint shops paid attention to those official specs as all the color photos I have seen look like the USAF lettering is rather black than dark blue. The old Italeri decals in my boxing are in black, but the decal film is impossible to hide on those old decals. Fortunately a friend owns a new boxing and will send me those new Italeri decals (black). And I'll try to get a new decal sheet from Italeri's spare part service to pay him back - quite the scheme

Bernd Korte
Decals are now completed. Thanks Thomas for sharing the USAF lettering from the current Italeri decal sheet!

Cuajete
Nice deco .

Mark DeBacker
Package actually contains 4 burner cans, enough for a B-58

Bernd Korte
So that's the new one! And I know, the Italeri kit is supposed to be a bit too short. Perhaps this will make handling easier...

Oliver Zwiener
I am looking forward to start our first common team project with this beautiful plane

Bernd Korte
Yes, me too!

Bernd Korte
Some first progress

Maciej Bellos
Following!

Tatsuto Toyonaga
To pair YB-49

Clifford Keesler
No it's called old age my friend. LOL.

Michael Hickey
hahaha, that's funny Cliify. Managed to paint all the undercarriage, wheel well and cockpit parts yesterday afternoon. With the wheel wells and undercarriage I'll give a gloss coat in prep for a wash, and with the cockpit and seat I'll pick out the fine details to paint. Need to order some Alclad to get ready to paint this beast with.

Holger Kranich
Alclad II rulez!

Michael Hickey

Michael Phillips
Count me in, this will be fantastic! I really look forward to building one of these, but I need to work on my BMF skills before I would even contemplate starting it.

Michael Hickey
Come on in Michael your most welcome, and enjoy the show.

Michael Hickey
Spent a lot of the day gluing in the weight so she won't be a tail sitter, undercarriage is almost complete. From what I have dry fitted she sits nicely, pictures tomorrow when I have daylight coming into my room. Overall I'm pretty pleased with the way the parts fitted together, not too shabby at all for such an old kit.

Michael Hickey
Should be up sometime this morning James.

Bernd Korte
Wo hast du die denn gefunden?

Oliver Zwiener
Ebay für 14 EURO ( zzgl Versand ) am 14.10.2018 gekauft

Oliver Zwiener
Dazu Super Scale Decal - Decals für B-58A Hustler 1/72 am 29.09.2018 für 2,50 EURO - auch Ebay.
Dazu noch die CH-54 Skycrane für 19 EURO am 07.10.2018 - ein wahrlich goldener Herbst )

Bernd Korte
Wow, da hast du aber Glück gehabt! Super!

Burkhard D
Very nice! Looks like you managed to fill all the panel lines. I am almost through with that on mine

Ekki
Very good.

Gustavo Antonelli
Very good! Muy bueno tu Hustler, felicitaciones!!

Hanno Kleinecke
Very convincing and realistic metalfinish !

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Thanks a lot for your comments ... I'll try to post some more info and pics about this model.

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Just added a couple of pictures. Saddly this model 'crash-landed' during the move to my new flat in Barcelona, so it no longer exists.

Burkhard D
The books by Jay Miller are amongst the best aerospace literature I've seen. From both the modeler's and the engineer's view. His book on the Hustler is unmatched, same goes for his books on the F-16 and the U-2 in the same series (Aerograph).

Selman Yarar
I like it very much

Soeren .
Really nice

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
You're right Burkhard ,,,, Jay Miller Aerofax series are a must for the serious modeller and/or enthusiast. I happen to own the whole seires from National Air Guard to A-3 and I enjoy reading them from time to time ,,, even if the subject doesn't fall into my usual preferences .... 100x100 recommended

Thomas Ehrensperger
Beautiful aircraft!

Cuajete
Very nice. Fantastic result. Enhorabuena, Julian!

Murad ÖZER
one of my all time fav subject. gonna be following veewy closely, watchout!

Michael Phillips
This one is one of the projects I look most forward to. I'm going all out on this one. I have made this one so far down the list because I want to make sure my construction and scribing skills are up to par. This will be one of my "unicorn" builds, hopefully to be the jewel of my collection some day.

Mike Torres
I love this kit,I also have the trainer version.

Dave Jones
Ah the T-58B Boomerang , me too ☺

Mike Torres
Good luck,on your project.I have been around the real ones,so i build them with some pics i have.Also good practice for the 48th scale.

Dave Jones
Thanks, I would love to see your pics

Maciej Bellos
Me too about the pics of the real beauty.

Maciej Bellos
Looks great. Please post more photos with close ups.

Rob van Dodewaard
very cool

Ekki
Brilliant work!

Christian Ristits
I need my sunglasses when watching on this pics...is it paint or foil? Brilliant build and looks spectacular!

Michel Huijghe
Nice. I've got one in 1/48th scale.

Hanno Kleinecke
An excellent example from the days when jets were beautiful !

Ekki
@Hanno: Well put!

Rob van Dodewaard
I completely agrre with that

Peter Klin
I did this kit many many years ago. Be aware: recently I read on several forums that this kit has a serious accuracy flaw: the Italeri "engineers" mismatched the full airplane length with the length without the nose antenna! As a result the shape of the kit is slightly mistaken and almost impossible to correct. However, if you don't mind on shape issues, the kit is good, with a vast choice of armament (H-bombs), and it is the only b-58 in the 1/72 so far...

komoras
Thank you for the info Peter
I have a humble collection of cold war bombers at a time, but plan to grow it up al little bit in the future

Ekki
Excellent job.

Soeren .
Really great work!

Gustavo Antonelli
Excellent job, congratulations!

Guido Haesevoets
Very, very nice!

Robin Hasting
Cool. When I was a kid we lived on the southern approach to Edward's AFB, so I saw a lot of neat airplanes. The occasional B-58 was a treat. We saw X-15's coming in a time or two (they just fell out of the sky so you had to be quick). A very nice Hustler, dude.

Christian Ristits
This looks really amazing! Excellent Job!

Alberto Bianchi
Veramente bello!

Gustavo Antonelli
Hi mates, thank you very much!
Donald, I don't think that these kind of paints may be buffable, like Alclad, Testors Metallizer, Gunze Sangyo Mr. Metal, etc. paints. Unfortunately, These paints are hard to find locally. Anyway, I gave a gentle pass with a soft dry cloth over the paint before airbrushing with Future (strictly speaking, Blem acrylic gloss, the local equivalent).

Donald Medley
Thanks for the info Gustavo

Ekki
Excellent job.

Gustavo Antonelli
Hi Ekki, thank you mate!

JOHN THOMAS
Very nice work, nice NMF

soheil moghisi
very nice.

Gustavo Antonelli
John, Soheil, thank you very much!

Selman Yarar
any photos?

Gustavo Antonelli
IMO, one of the most beatiful aircraft of all times. Built out of the box.

Eric Juvyns
Howla Paula, ik wist niet dat je interesse ook naar dit onderwerp uitging. Blijkt wel geen gemakkelijke kit te zijn om te bouwen. Maar is wel indrukwekkend. En dan nog op de juiste schaal

Michel Huijghe
A ja dat is gekomen omdat Erik Vogels (Club Zaventem) een aantal kits (serieus aantal) weg deed en die er tussen stond. En is van dezelfde periode als de SR-71, U-2 en de X-15 die ik ook heb. En met wat ben je bezig? Ik aan de Fokker D.VII van Wingnuts (ligt een beetje stil) en de Me-163 van Dragon met CMK sets. Heb ondertussen nog een Me-109F-4 (Zvezda), FW-190F-8 en een Me-110D (Eduard) gekocht. En nu stop ik.
Ben van plan om een aantal modellen te verkopen. Dus kijk anders maar op mijn stash en als je er iets tussen ziet staan kan je het vragen.

Clifford Keesler
I built this kit and I loved it. Love the B-58. Pics in my albums.

Aris aka Amen
Nice project

Ed Hubbart
This was the first kit I built when I started the hobby. Had built a couple things here and there previously, but this was the first.

Glenn .
I remember building a 58 too! way back, it had the opening cockpit hatches and the dropable weapons pod! still got it parked away! My first kit was the little Revell Spad lots of glue on that one!

Steve Schlager
Megahobby.com has a good price. On sale for $32.00

megahobby.com/search.aspx?find=b-58

Frank Krause
Monogram, Wings, that's Augie!
When I was about 8 or 10 I played with a Hustler (not the magazine), which a cousin of mine had built. May be it was 1:72, may be 1_48, but to me that thing appeared to be huge!
Wish you luck, Augie, to get one!

Augie
Thanks frank.. when i do... I will need lot of room.. its huge

Steve Schlager
Megahobby.com

megahobby.com/search.aspx?find=b-58

Bill Gilman
That's a big 'un. Hope you find one!

Steve Schlager
MegaHobby.com has this kit and it is on sale for $32.00.

megahobby.com/search.aspx?find=b-58

Bruce Scott
I keep looking for an original issue from when the molds were new. Thanks for the tip about Megahobby. That's a better price than anywhere else.

Bill Gilman
Ooh, not seen this one in a while. Gotta do the scheme on the cover, it's beautiful!!!

Greg Solomon
Nice subject! I've seen one in person! 1-1 scale! It's huge!

babak chalangi
it's huge kit for 1/72

M.Julian Marles
Cool! I have a 1/48 version but not brave enough to tackle yet!

babak chalangi

Bill Gilman
Very sleek aircraft indeed. A supersonic bomber seemed like a good idea at the time, until they realized that the "area rule" would result in a fuselage cross-section so small there was no room for a bomb bay! Hence the large centerline weapons pod. When the mission switched to low altitude due to the SAM threat, it was no longer supersonic. But a beautiful aircraft nonetheless.

babak chalangi
it's huge bird needs lots of paints time and glue

babak chalangi
she really was bill

Greg Solomon
You will have fun with the gaps on the fuselage. Filling, sanding and re-scribing panel lines was tedious. Also leveling the canopy/pilot access hatches if you plan to display them closed... it took mesome effort to make them fit flush. Good luck!

babak chalangi
actually greg i'm putting it for trade done have the space ant time to do this

Duncan Cook
Interssting camo for a interessting Aircraft.
I like it.

Augie
Nice work!!

Gerald Willing
Very Nice Paul

Frank Krause
Excellent job, Paul! Love the camo!

Paul Tomczak
Thanks everyone. This was fun build. It won my model clubs monthly theme of "Speed".

Jose Miguel Rodriguez
Beautiful cammo!!!!!!!!!!!

Holger Kranich
Ugly aircraft (in my oppinion), beautiful paintjob! Well done! The undercarriage looks great, too!

Philip De Keyser
Beautifull Big Bird with some nice camo, great paintjob Paul

Andy Halper
Another great one. You're acquiring all Cold War bombers I'd build if I wasn't doing what I was doing!

Lionel Marco
Sadly I left one on a flea market 2 weeks ago... If only I had know then...

Jan Goormans
de stash is weer aan het groeien zo te zien
en deze is zo een kleintje

Wilfried Bogaerts
Tja, stond er al in, maar khad juist ontdekt dat je van dezelfde kit meerdere exemplaren in je stash kunt zetten, en deze is er zo eentje...
Kheb er zo'n 2... machtig machien overigens