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Strategic Air Command (SAC) Group Build II

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Posted by DantheMan85 on Monday, August 17, 2009 7:36 PM

Bondoman, don't know if I want to use the NMF on my PeaceMaker or not.  I am going with, Aluminum, White, Sliver, the main colors.

Wirraway, no but one day walking into my room and seeing half the plane hanging by only one huck, and the second one about to snap.  So on my 52's I just cut them off and sanded them down.  I'm going with Sac Bomber Tan, Sac Bomber Green, ether Dark Green (B-52) or just Dark Green, and Black on the bottom.

 

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Posted by bondoman on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:04 AM

FMM, I can't find a reference to white. The B had red arctic colors, which would be pretty cool, but that's a minicraft 1/144 model. Otherwise, they are natural aluminum and magnesium, with silver paint in some places.

There's two big glitches in that otherwise fine model. The first is the leading edge intakes, which if you get a good photo of are bigger and more curved than the model. Easy to fix with a file. The second, which is hard to fix, is that the wing upper surface is continuous across the fuselage, rather than the other way around, as in the model. It means a cross of masking tape, and a bunch of putty, but it looks better if you do it.

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Posted by DantheMan85 on Sunday, September 13, 2009 12:53 PM

On the instruction sheet that comes with the kit, it say white in some areas.

I'm just now finishing up on my landing gear, and bomb bay.

And I picked this book from amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764309749/convab36peaceand

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Posted by DantheMan85 on Monday, September 21, 2009 4:16 PM

Well I've ran into a problem, the intake part that only covers the upper half, so the bottom half is open and you can see the inside.  So I'm going to make somthing that will cover up the opening.

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Posted by WarHammer25 on Monday, September 28, 2009 5:52 PM

Sorry for my absence guys. My summer was very busy. Great work from everyone! Its nice to see some SAC big sticks. Kind of reminds me of that Teddy Roosevelt saying. Anyway, due to my lack of build time, I am pretty well over committed on GBs right now. I would still like to hang around and tackle the big B-36 and include it in this GB still if that is ok with you guys; though I probably won't get to it until late this year or very early next year.

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Posted by bondoman on Monday, September 28, 2009 6:13 PM
I'm not the host, but.... why not tackle an manageable portion of it, like the interiors, when you can. I'd be into watching that.
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Posted by WarHammer25 on Monday, September 28, 2009 6:23 PM
Will do Bondo! Thanks for the suggestion.
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Posted by DantheMan85 on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:40 AM
Great to hear another person is doing a B-36, I found out that there's many problems with the kit. The main landing gear bay is open on the inside, and the top engine in takes are open to so you can see the green area of the landing gear bay.

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Posted by bondoman on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:11 PM
 WarHammer25 wrote:

Sorry for my absence guys. My summer was very busy. Great work from everyone! Its nice to see some SAC big sticks. Kind of reminds me of that Teddy Roosevelt saying. Anyway, due to my lack of build time, I am pretty well over committed on GBs right now. I would still like to hang around and tackle the big B-36 and include it in this GB still if that is ok with you guys; though I probably won't get to it until late this year or very early next year.

And WarH, required "reading" in this GB is "Strategic Air Command" with Jimmy Stewart.
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Posted by WarHammer25 on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:11 PM

Feldmarschall: Thanks for the tip Fieldmarchal. Now I know something to look out for.

Bondoman: I have seen "Strategic Air Command" many times. It is a great movie, and I really like it but it seems that Paramount still has not released it on DVD which seems odd as most Jimmy Stewart movies have been re-released on DVD. Actually, I think we were talking about this earlier in this GB.

Speaking of reading material, has anyone picked up the new book on Curtis LeMay? I have seen it at Barnes & Noble for about the past month but have yet to pick it up.

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Posted by DantheMan85 on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:35 PM
Yeah I'm thinking of just boxing in the main landing gear bay, I recored SAC off of TCM a while back. Wink [;)]

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Posted by DantheMan85 on Saturday, October 3, 2009 4:36 PM

Well I taped my RB-36H, to see how much nosie weight I need.  Which turnes out to be close a a full pound.  And I compared the huge size to my 1/72 B-47 StratoJet.

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Posted by DantheMan85 on Saturday, October 3, 2009 7:44 PM

Here's some more pictures, the BlackBird is the same scale 1/72.

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Posted by DantheMan85 on Monday, October 5, 2009 7:06 PM

After looking and reading over Detail & Scale, the RB-36H had four camera windows the Monogram just used panel lines to show, so I cutted the out.  First drilling a hole in the center, then useing my hobby knife to square up the corners.

(I will fix the over cut area)

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