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My wifes uncle was the flight engineer on a B-36. 4 crew sat in the greenhouse. Before his death a few years ago he told about going out through the wing to check on the inboard engines while in flight. His station was a busy place monitoring 6 piston engines and 4 jets. I was spellbound in our conversations. Yet another reason to build this historic model which actually was never used in war.
Max
PS--I forgot to mention the changing of the 216 spark plugs which was not popular with the ground crew.
Great build!! I love it. That is one strange canopy. It looks like a greenhouse.
Your comments and questions are always welcome.
Beautiful job with that beast! Raymond
On the Bench:
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Great job on the Peacemaker!
I agree that every warbird modeler should build this kit once. I remember when it came out. It cost $20. I happened to have enough for it but just could not pull the trigger on it, yet that kit haunted my modeling dreams for years to come until I finally bought one off e-Bay and built it. I rank it as one of my best builds, and easily the best effort at NMF that I have ever completed. Love this bird.
GMorrison Very nice! And yes Vol, once WAS enough for me.
Very nice!
And yes Vol, once WAS enough for me.
A hearty "amen" to that!
WOW!! Excellent execution Max! I love the scratch built nuke. Looking up and seeing that in your office would give some poor visitor a good eyefull of potential hazzards lol.
"Don't set off my nuke!" lol
- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"
I actually got to see this one up close at the USAF Museum at Dayton Ohio. Notice the big nukes under the right wing. What a Beast for sure!
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
Great job building that beast! I think everyone should build it once in their lifetime. A cool thing to do is build a WWI biplane and let it hang out with it. Tremendous difference that shows just how huge it is.
One thinks of 1/72 scale as small. Not so with a B-36 with a 39'' wingspan. I saw B-36s in the 1950s as a kid. You could hear the distinctive drone minutes before it came into sight. As an adult I had to have a hanger B-36 for my office. The kit came with conventional bombs but I scratch built its real weapon, the largest American nuclear weapon ever built measuring in at 24' long and 5' in diameter and weighing 21 tons. The Mark 17 Yield was 10-15 megatons. Big model/lotsa workbench space. Check it out!
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