You killed it! [:'(]
just kidding
One question… How are you going to make that visibile wing spar inside bomb bay still stay in the right place when you lower the wings? Or are you going to do a closed bomb bay build?
If you mean the wing fuel tank that joins the wings, it will come down with the wings. I may have to trim the top of the fuselage truss some, but the wing only needs to be lowered about 1/16" so that shouldn’t be a big problem. But, I won’t know that until I get there.
Score another “cheap” one for me!
The “RB-36H Peacemaker” with a BIN listing on ebay strikes again!!!
1997 Kit, dont know yet if it is the 97 Big Box or the 97 Small Box
http://www.ebay.com/itm/200697770248?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2648
This one was for a BIN price of $28 w/ a reasonable shipping price of $14.50
$28 is a nice fair price for the consumer, but listing it better would have probably brought in at least another $10 ( if not more ) if labled properly. Thus far I have purchased ( 2 ) 2008 kits - one for $20 + ship ( Yes!- $20 ) and the other for $25 + ship, now this one for $28 + ship because the auction is labled RB-36H Peacemaker vs the traditional B-36 Peacemaker title which shows up on more searches.
True, or you could just do a bomb bay door closed build. But if you do a door open build, wouldnt that also mean you have to adjust your K-Truss`s and bomb racks too?
Another question: How are you going to rebuild the upper wing detail that drapes over the fuselage and barely touchs the wing on the other side?
lajntx, fantastic information there at the beginning. I plan to enter this with the 08 release, after a couple of other GB’s are completed. It has scared me sitting there in the stash but my 6yr old keeps on me about building it and hanging it from his ceiling! I probably won’t get too carried away with accurate markings (I understand the 02 Revell kit has it right not the 08?) so see you soon.
Hi again Reasoned,
No kit 1980, 1989, 1991, 1997, 2002, 2008 has the plane 100% correct as they all use the same master mold. The `02 Revell-Germany is a superior kit because it already has the walkway stripes and common markings on the decal sheet and saves you from having to buy the Warbirds set. Another reason it is superior is because on that decal set it always includes many of the generic markings not found on the stock or warbirds set such as emergency exits, serial plates, water insertions, drain markers, etc. Also, they have the diamonds one can add on for the reciprocating engine air plug Indicators.
Revell could print that, and sell it as a stand alone for $25-$30 and sell it all day long if they wanted.
The model itself is incorrect in the wing placement and lack of the forward bombay that carried standard munitions on the RB-36`s
The 2008 kit also has another fatal flaw…
As you can see the USAF & U.S. AIR FORCE and the UNITES STATES AIR FORCE small script decals are insignia blue and not black which is correct the correct color for the B-36. I guess someone in the art department must have confused it with the B-52 which had those in insignia blue.
Hi everyone,
I came across this build while doing an online search the other day. There are a few things I would have done differently to avoid a couple of inacuracies, but its still one h3ll of a A+++ build. Especially how the flight deck was detailed and given a "weathered look". When it comes time to paint my green house canopies, I think Im going to use this method as it`s perhaps the best looking “painted” job Ive seen to date. Also the trick on giving the landing gear "an oil bath " gave it fantastic results
http://www.network54.com/Forum/47751/message/1324147713/Monogram+B-36+Peacemaker+1-72+Scale
Here is my “supply closet”
9 - B-36 Kits : 1980-2, 1991-1, 1997-3, 2002-1, 2008-2
1- B-35, 1-B-58, and 1-B-25 all in 1/72
No room for that proverbial well intentioned tennis racket or bowling ball. LOL
I’m still in the game although I have made no progress on the build as of yet. Work and homework have taken precedence, but that ends next weekend after I take my final test and submit my final paper. What I have done though is order some Alclad. This will be my first kit and the first time I will be using Alclad.
Thats fine deattilio, This is a come as you are-- when you can GB. I suspect that most of us whom are building the 1/72s will be spending months working on ours. I keep planning on returning to my RB-36 build by actually taking it out of the box for the first time, but work/life always seems to think my day off is the time to “act up”. [:@]
Ahh, the walkway strips [^o)], now that is not something I look forward to trying to replicate.
Hi Reasoned.
It`s your lucky day!.. Well sort of.
Spruce Brothers is having a SALE!
http://store.spruebrothers.com/categories.aspx?Keyword=B-36
Both the walkway stripes AND B-36 Conversion sets by Warbirds is on sale for $14.99 + 3.50 SH
Have a few other B-36 things on sale too.
Also, the owner of Warbirds is known to offer the walkway stripes on ebay for $14.99+ shipping too
Today I finally got a whole “half a day” off from work & life. [:P]
Unfortunalty the dog and errands took most of that up. Recently I won a late 1960s vintage 1/72 Enola Gay kit on ebay. Unfortunately upon arrival and close inspection - the decals are most likely trashed due to age as most of them have cracks in them big enough to see the white paper underneath. Ill just have to keep an eye open on a replacement sheet. My intentions are to also aquire a few known historical planes in 1/72 scale so when someone asks me again: " Just how big was the 36? " Ill have those for a refernce. Also, a month or so ago I picked up an early 1970s vintage unbuilt B-25C kit at a yard sale for $2. I found a B-25 decal sheet on ebay that allowed it to to be built as Jimmy Doolittles bomber ( Ill still have to do some backdating to a B-25B ).
Here is some comparisons in size. They are quite dramatic even in just 1/72 scale. The first two pictures have the B-25 on the left, B-36 center, and B-29 on the right:
The next two shows the difference in size of the Bomb Bays, notice how the B-36`s ( bomber version ) bomb bay can quite easily hold the B-25
Nice comparison there. And the B-25 fits without the aft bomb bay even open!
I’ve been working away and taking pictures as I go on my B-36, I will post some before long.
Hi John,
No, that is all 4 bombays cut open changing the model from an RB-36 configuration to a full fledged Bomber. When done that build will resemble this… go to 1:10 to see the snap action doors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePwEPVgZpEA&feature=related
The RB used what would have been bomb bay # 1 for the camera equipment, and #4 for the ECM Equipment. ( where the 3 radomes go ) and why the model only has #2 & #3 bomb bays. Since the stock bombay doors cover 2 bays, all you have to is get another set of doors & cut open the remaining bays using a cut away piece to reconstruct the divider between the fore & aft bays. However that also means you will have to replicated the K-trusses, bomb racks, and full lenght of the trolly tunnel.
Later when the RB wings were disolved when the U-2s & RB-52s began to take over spying and intellegence flights, the RB`s began to carry standard & atomic ordance with the ecm room coverted to bomb bay and the 3 rear ecm radomes moved further aft in the lower fuselage.
Here are a couple of pictures showing where I am now. I have the wing center stuck to the fuel tank/spar part, after aligning it with the wings installed over an enlargement of the plans to 1/72. I am able to work it back in to the fuselage with just a little prying, and I have the fuselage cut out sanded to get the wing section dropped down where it needs to go. I guess next I will install all the fuselage internals so I can join the fuselage before I final fit the wing.
Wow la, just got thisreply thanks. So if I hit the link it comes up with decals set #72002 does this include the walkway-strips?
Wow la, just got thisreply thanks. So if I hit the link it comes up with decals set #72002 does this include the walkway-strips?<<
No, sheet #72002 allows you to build a different plane if you would prefer to do something besides the one that comes with the stock decal sheet. This is what #72002 looks like:
The walkway stripes & common markings is sheet # 72003
Here is the one you were wanting. Their stock has gone down from 6 to 2, so you might want too hurry.
Ive bought a few sheets directly from Steven @ Warbirds for the $14.99 price & $3.50 shipping. Im thinking about asking him if he can extend that price for either sheet to the ones with this GB building in 1/72. For now, lets patronise sprucebrothers.... who knows, maybe theyll stay at that price point if we keep them busy enough.
Here is a build in which both sheets were used to create BM-028 which was a red Arctic wing tip B-36B
Hi John,
One question, you cut the outer edges of the wing spar off. Were the Nacelle`s for engines #2 & #5 in the way when you lowered the wing?
Also, will you be re-inforcing the spar with a metal or wood dowell rod?
I had to relieve the fuel tank/spar to clear the inlet trunking I have put in the wings. I didn’t like the open look the kit has, the real thing looks sculptured and without something behind the leading edge it didn’t look right to me.
I think it will be fine, the spar in the kit ties the wing together pretty well.
Here is a picture of the wing ducting. It is Milliput and plasticard.
