Northrop B2 Spirit, has anybody made this model?

[Petestein]

Hello my friends, some years ago I purchased this extremely nice and very complex model of this beautiful airplane., I am opening this thread because i am planning to build it shortly. Iahve already prepared structural parts to be cut with my laser machine, and I would like to know if any of you worldwide friends have built or tried to build this beautiful model. Thank you

[Erik Zwaan]

I'm not familiar with this kit but it looks very promising. You have my attention Petestein!

Erik

[rkelterer]

please take a look at Gemeinsamer Baubericht Northrop B-2 Spirit / Model-Kom / 1:33 - Construction Reports - Kartonbau.de - Everything around Paper- and Cardmodels (it is in german - but with a lot of pictures )

[Isaac]

This is a really large model with huge wing span. You may want to consider enforcing the structure with carbon fiber for wing support in addition to the card to prevent the wings from sagging


Isaac

[Petestein]

Originally Posted by Isaac

This is a really large model with huge wing span. You may want to consider enforcing the structure with carbon fiber for wing support in addition to the card to prevent the wings from sagging


Isaac

Thanks for your suggestion Isaac. I forgot to mention that using Photoshop I have reduced the model to 1/48 scale. It is not practical to make a model of such size with a wingspan of 160 centimeters in 1/33 scale. One would have to live in Downton Abbey in order to have enough space for exhibiting this beautiful aircraft.

[Petestein]

Originally Posted by rkelterer

please take a look at Gemeinsamer Baubericht Northrop B-2 Spirit / Model-Kom / 1:33 - Construction Reports - Kartonbau.de - Everything around Paper- and Cardmodels (it is in german - but with a lot of pictures )

Thank you very much for your suggestion. It will be a big help. The German language is no problem thanks to Google translator. I can see it is not going to be a weekend project but I think it might come out a really beautiful model.

[Vermin_King]

Originally Posted by Petestein

Thank you very much for your suggestion. It will be a big help. The German language is no problem thanks to Google translator. I can see it is not going to be a weekend project but I think it might come out a really beautiful model.

I was going to suggest going to the site in Chrome and letting Google translate. They do a much better job than the translate function in Firefox

[Yeager]

Originally Posted by Vermin_King

I was going to suggest going to the site in Chrome and letting Google translate. They do a much better job than the translate function in Firefox

My daughter is a translator and has introduced me to DeepL (free online translator) and it does a much better job than Google translate and has more features.