Ron
Denning
Kansas
City, Missouri
The Convair
XC-99 was based on the B-36 and intended to ferry parts for the mammoth bomber.
Only one was built. Ron’s conversion of Monogram’s 1/72 scale B-36 is largely
scratchbuilt: He used the kit’s wings, gear, and vertical and horizontal
stabilizers, but built the fuselage with plastic tubes, carved the nose and
tail section from solid plastic blocks, and printed his own decals for the
windows. “The round-tip propellers depict the early life of the plane,” he writes.
“They were changed later to square-tip blades. However, the main gear is the
four-wheel, later version.”