Well, I finally got around to changing out the weapons load from my incorrect guess at the time. I selected the 25 megaton B-41 Nuclear weapon and scratch built it from spare nuclear weapon parts from around the house namely my wife’s lip stick tube, Bondo, wood, tape and such. My scale was almost perfect but the bomb bay was a little short. A slight shortning of the bomb and all is well. Much more authentic now!
Max
Max, that just fits, doesn’t it. More bang for the buck. Very cool sir, and I might have to duplicate your efforts when I build my B-47.
Thanks for sharing.
John
Ah, thanks John! As I look at it I think my fins are slightly tall but at least it’s quite a bit more accurate than my original guess. That was fun figuring that all out. I’m blaming Hasegawa for that Bomb bay for being slightly short! LOL!
Max
Max, its 1/72 scale. An 1/8th inch error is 9 inches on the real thing. I’ll bet they barely shoehorned that thing in there on the real plane, so it makes perfect sense you would have to try more than once. Looks great regardless. Small plane with a big stick.
John
Hey John, I noticed some B41 bomb pictures have the nose end flattend about that much. Maybe on loading the first B-47 someone said “Oops”. LOL!
Max
PS–Here’s a pre-build picture from the Scratch Build thread showing the dimensions.
Hello Max!
Nice scratchbuilding! Somehow it’s always pretty hard to find a plastic tube of a specific diameter if it’s to be larger than a few mm. That’s why you need creativity and lots of obscure stuff laying around when scratchbuilding!
Thanks for sharing and have a nice day
Paweł
Man that’s outstanding work. Cool info and reference picks. Scares me too. I like the third person, you sound like royalty bud.
OK, one more. It would be a shame to waste this Dayton picture after all of this research and discussion! LOL! And I always conclude with “What were they thinking?”
Max
very COOL! Looks great. I plant to hang my 1/48 “Enola gay” with the bomb dropping out of the open bay doors… Where the hell else are you going to put a 1:48 B-29?!? Excellent work. Love the scratch built TNB! Rudy
Hey Pawel, Joe and Rudy, Thanks for the comments! Encouragement always helps on my silly projects! LOL! And Rudy, keep us posted on the 1/48 B-29 w/fission bomb. That model always has worried me but I’m still trying to find a place for my 1/48 B-17. Maybe I need an addition to the museum space wise. Carry on!
Max