Commenced with the paint job. Going with the early SAC natural metal and anti-flash white on the undersurfaces. Gray primer on the fuselage. White on the undersides of the wing and the flaps. Kit allows flaps to transition up or down. Interesting that the B-52 only has an up or down flap setting- no intermediate flap.
Of course something as simple as under-flash white turns up a staggering amount of variations when you start to look at examples in my references and on-line. White under the fuselage only, white half way up the engine nacelles, full white nacelles with pylons natural metal, full white nacelles and pylons.....

And I am just scratching what "natural metal" means. Like the B-36 there seems to be significant variations in schemes whn you dig a bit deeper.
Again very impressed with the quality of the molds. Nice kit so far.
