After about forever, I finally finished my B-29 conversion to the Silverplate Enola Gay. This was the biggest, most complicated, and troublesome kit that I have built. The kit part total is 105; and I did not use the landing gears, turrets, bombs, and a bunch of miscellaneous items; however I scratch built upwards of 200 parts plus I used a bunch of photo etch. The project should be titled Re, as in rebuild and repaint. If I did not have to re-do so much, I probably could have built at least 6 standard fortresses out of the boxes in the time I spent on this.
To paint this thing I used Mr. Surfacer and Tamiya primers, decanted Tamiya TS rattle cans, Alclad II, Tamiya acrylics, Future, Testors Dullcote, plus. For putties I used Milliput and Perfect Putty. The blurred props are an experiment. They look OK from a distance; but I may revisit them or use the Curtis Electric Props that are painted and stored in a container!
So here is the semi-finished product. The bomber is sitting on 3 Flight Pose stands until I decide how to display it. There are 8 antenna on this bird, besides open bombay doors, that makes it hard to handle! You can see that I have a somewhat different concept of a NMF!
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These photos are the botttom of the port wing.
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You will notice the wing root seams. They required no work, but slipped right into place!
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In flight with landing gear up!
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This is my version of a B-29 exhaust system.
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The kit reflects lots of enthusiasm and little skill; but over all I am satisfied with the results. Questions and comments are welcome. Thanks for taking a look!
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Trumpeter 1/350 USS Hornet CV-8 Prep and research