AGM-86 cruise missile, 1:72

[Jakko]

Well, painting turned out to be about as complicated as construction of this model

There are a number of possible schemes, but most of those need USAF markings which I don’t have in suitable sizes, so I thought I would just go for this overall grey that’s to be seen in photographs of the real thing:



A couple of coats of Tamiya neutral grey for the overall colour, a yellow line around the fuselage (masked, then white paint, then yellow) and then some shading and highlighting by brushing Tamiya smoke into the panel lines and drybrushing with some lighter shades of grey. Oh, and some aluminium for the inside of the air intake and the exhaust. Done

The stand, by the way, is an old Games Workshop “flying base”, 60 mm in diameter with a 35 mm pylon. I had to drill a 2 mm hole into the bottom of the missile for it.

 

[papa 695]

Nice work Jakko, just the aeroplane to build to go with it.

 

[Jakko]

Time to build a diorama of the plane in the air, with the missiles being launched … the one I’ve finished already needs to be far enough away that its wings have fully deployed, of course, and I can convert the other two into one just launched and one halfway to deployed wings … How much room do you think I’ll need?

 

[Archetype]

How much room do you think I’ll need?

All of it.

 

[Jakko]

I suppose it kind of comes in the range of an earlier diorama idea I had, of a Matchbox/Revell Flower-class corvette depth-charging a Revell Type VII U-boat, with the depth to correct scale of course

 

[mrtintheweb]

Well, painting turned out to be about as complicated as construction of this model

There are a number of possible schemes, but most of those need USAF markings which I don’t have in suitable sizes, so I thought I would just go for this overall grey that’s to be seen in photographs of the real thing:

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A couple of coats of Tamiya neutral grey for the overall colour, a yellow line around the fuselage (masked, then white paint, then yellow) and then some shading and highlighting by brushing Tamiya smoke into the panel lines and drybrushing with some lighter shades of grey. Oh, and some aluminium for the inside of the air intake and the exhaust. Done

The stand, by the way, is an old Games Workshop “flying base”, 60 mm in diameter with a 35 mm pylon. I had to drill a 2 mm hole into the bottom of the missile for it.

Reminds me of the 'fake' Bond movie, Never Say Never Again.
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[papa 695]

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Time to build a diorama of the plane in the air, with the missiles being launched … the one I’ve finished already needs to be far enough away that its wings have fully deployed, of course, and I can convert the other two into one just launched and one halfway to deployed wings … How much room do you think I’ll need?

Can’t wait to see this Jakko.

 

[Jakko]

Reminds me of the 'fake' Bond movie, Never Say Never Again.

You’re right, that has one of these in it:




(from The Agony Booth)

My own main pop-culture memory of it, though, is from this comic:



I think it was this issue, anyway.