Strategic Air Command (SAC) Group Build II

bondoman wrote:

WarHammer25 wrote: I just came back from the bookstore and I got lucky. They had Magnesium Overcast! I must say that it is the best book on the B-36. A must have for anybody building a Peacemaker. I checked out my RB-36H kit and you can build both a B-36H and a RB-36H. It does not come with walking-strip decals but has them outlined with raised panel lines. Looks like a cool kit and it is HUGE! Here's a trick I used for the stripes on the 1/72 BUFF. Since it was going to be natural metal, I primed the whole wing with black which is the norm for me under Alclad. Then I simply masked off the stripes themselves and painted all, and I mean ALL cuz it was a LOT, of silver over them. It was pretty easy to find the right width of tape, plus touch up was much easier with black than it ever ever would have been with silver.

Bondo,

If I was going to do my BUFF in the SEA camo scheme, would the walkway lines still be in black ?

Pavlvs wrote:

Just to update you, my Aardvark is going to be 1/48. Does anybody know of any detail sets for the i/48 'Vark? I am also going to do the B-58 after all also in 1/48. I have a detail set for all three cockpits and I'm looking forward to that. I've never done detail sets before so any tips would be truly appreciated. Good luck and a blessed new year

Got it. Happy new year!

Pavlvs wrote:

Just to update you, my Aardvark is going to be 1/48. Does anybody know of any detail sets for the i/48 'Vark? I am also going to do the B-58 after all also in 1/48.

  You're doing the same two kits that I am. 

 I just saw an F-111 detail kit here.

WarHammer25 wrote:

I just came back from the bookstore and I got lucky. They had Magnesium Overcast! I must say that it is the best book on the B-36. A must have for anybody building a Peacemaker. I checked out my RB-36H kit and you can build both a B-36H and a RB-36H. It does not come with walking-strip decals but has them outlined with raised panel lines. Looks like a cool kit and it is HUGE!

www.Amazon.com has Magnesium Overcast for $18,

B-36 Photo Scrapbook for $100

B-36 Warbird Tech for $90

several other B-36 books

I didn't realize that they had become so expensive.  I bought my copies several years ago, but I don't think that I paid nearly that much.

Darwin, O.F. 

I got the paper

back version for only $24.

DesertRat wrote:

Funny...... I was in there 2 days ago, and never saw it. Wonder if maybe that particular branch was out...

I doubt it's still in print. There's also a paperback version. It has so much info, including all kind of appendices listing every airframe, it's unit, disposition, etc.

DesertRat wrote:

Fairly new book? I'm wondering if it's something I could find at Barnes & Noble

I just came back from the bookstore and I got lucky. They had Magnesium Overcast! I must say that it is the best book on the B-36. A must have for anybody building a Peacemaker.

I checked out my RB-36H kit and you can build both a B-36H and a RB-36H. It does not come with walking-strip decals but has them outlined with raised panel lines. Looks like a cool kit and it is HUGE!

wynder wrote:

I've not ever participated in a group build, but I think its a great idea. If I may, count me in... I'm thinking a B-47 Stratojet, and/or EC-135E 'Rivet Amber' "Lisa Ann". Man, these group builds could crowd the workbench! Thanx!

Hiya Wynder, and to the Group Build! Glad to have ya aboard! I've added you to the list. We have a couple of months before we actually begin. But I'm looking forward to see the progress in your build!

I've not ever participated in a group build, but I think its a great idea. If I may, count me in... I'm thinking a B-47 Stratojet, and/or RC-135E 'Rivet Amber' "Lisa Ann". Man, these group builds could crowd the workbench!

Thanx!

dmk wrote:

WarHammer25 wrote: There is some place that does make it on DVD. Just Google Strategic Air Command DVD. This place has it but I think there are some others as well. I was looking at some of those, but some of the sites with reviews indicate these may be copies and some are pretty poor quality apparently. I'm thinking these are VHS transferred to DVD.

I think so too! I've looked for it on DVD, but so far, it's no luck here. I have run across that movie on tv in times past-I'm just wierd in that with a movie I haven't seen yet, I won't sit and watch when I start from the middle. I have to see it from the beginning! Time to go trolling through Ebay, it seems!

Thanks Yardbird. I will have to pick that up. Especially since I am building a B-36.

I got my RB-36H today. Really haven't looked close at it so I don't know if it comes with walking strips or not but I doubt it.

WarHammer25 wrote:

I have heard that Magnesium Overcast is a great book on the B-36. I have the Warbird Tech series book on the B-36 which is also be Dennis Jenkins. It is also a good book, but are they the same?

No, they are NOT the same book.  The Warbird Tech B-36 is a good book, Magnesium Overcast is a GREAT book with lots of photos.  There is a book called B-36 Photo Scrapbook by Dennis Jenkins that is a compilation of photos that were not used in Magnesium Overcast.  It is also great.

Darwin, O.F. 

WarHammer25 wrote:

There is some place that does make it on DVD. Just Google Strategic Air Command DVD. This place has it but I think there are some others as well.

I was looking at some of those, but some of the sites with reviews indicate these may be copies and some are pretty poor quality apparently. I'm thinking these are VHS transferred to DVD.

There is some place that does make it on DVD. Just Google Strategic Air Command DVD. This place has it but I think there are some others as well. http://stores.blowoutdvd1.com/-strse-122/Strategic-Air-Command-%281955%29_JAMES/Detail.bok

It really is a great movie and everyone should watch it. I haven't seen it in a while because AMC decided to quit showing it. Plus, Jimmy Stewart makes it better because he is a grat actor and would have been a colonel in the Air Force Reserves at the time of filming. 

I have heard that Magnesium Overcast is a great book on the B-36. I have the Warbird Tech series book on the B-36 which is also be Dennis Jenkins. It is also a good book, but are they the same?

bondoman wrote:

Roger and WH I submit that everyone needs to rent "Strategic Air Command" by the end of the year. I would write a quiz if it moves you.

dmk wrote:

DesertRat wrote: I'd heard that before too! So much for the element of surprise, huh? Yea, but the B-36 was a high altitude bomber (it was from the time when SAMs weren't invented yet). You wouldn't hear it coming at 40 thousand feet.

See the posts in "What the heck is..."

Roger and WH I submit that everyone needs to rent "Strategic Air Command" by the end of the year. I would write a quiz if it moves you.

Also, my recommended reading: Magnesium Overcast.

I've settled on the F-82, please.

DesertRat wrote:

I'd heard that before too! So much for the element of surprise, huh?