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PREFACE It was sunny day on
3 July, 2002. I came to work and... what should I see....A BIG BOX, A REALLY BIG
BOX on the chair at my workplace! I unpacked it and got this HUGE model in my
hands... That was my birthday. Well, I hadn't
assembled any models during the previous 10 years, so this one was the
'reanimation' of my modeling skills, so I tried. CONSTRUCTION The construction went without any occasions, but I noticed some big gaps
between cabin and tail sections with fuselage. So these areas required lots of
putty (I used Revell's one). There was funny replacement for the ballast
for cabin part - I used high a voltage condensator (it's enough heavy) from
old black/white TV.
Although 'Cutting Edge Modelworks' provides new featherless exhausts, I didn't use them and left the existing ones, but I tried to paint them to match the early version of the B1 exhaust cans and did some little weathering. Airstream directors also were mounted on the tail.
One of the improvements was cutting separately two hatches over defensive/offensive crew seats. I made them so they could be open or closed, instead of original nonrealistic one-slice cover. Although I was thinking about creating opening cockpit hatches, but I hesitated to do this because of lack of experience. Original kit contains high quality decals and because I intended to build my B1-B from a box - I used them. So what can I say more... This is
HUGE plane and you have to be prepared for its huge size before, during and of
course after building it. George
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Photos and text © by George Gochaleishvili
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My coworkers gave me such a present. 
