I am still amazed that you got that finish with Krylon, which of course here in the colonies is common as dirt. Was it sprayed from the small Krylon “Short Kuts” cans? Those do spray at a light pressure and are the only rattle cans I use. They’re great, and for those who have sworn off rattle cans forever, give these a try and you might rethink it.
As for that big B-29 kit, one is about to re-enter my life, so it appears. Last week Meteor sent me this bizarre conversion kit to turn a B-29 into a Soviet Tu-4 “Bull”, itself modified into an AWACS platform with a huge rotodome and gigantic turboprop engines, and not only that, it’s a ChiCom copy of a Russian copy of an American bomber turned into a primitive E-3 Sentry. I thought, “Who in the hell would ever think of such a thing, let alone make the molds, and who would want to model something so butt ugly?”
Long story short, all week I kept seeing this box sitting on my table, right next to the packages of new Vigilante resin correction parts. But instead of the stuff for the beloved Vigi, my eye kept wandering to this awful monstrosity of a flying machine conversion (let me say here, the castings are immaculate; I’ve never seen such big castings, let alone so perfect and smooth). The upshot is, I at last figured out which kind of perverse weirdo of a modeler would do such a conversion: ME!
So now I have to locate a B-29 kit, get my resin-expert partner motivated, and get to sawing. Gonna have a big, strange oddity with no space to put it, but I’ll be the only one on the block to have one, I’ll bet. Oh, and I figured up that the finished weight is going to be about 2.5-3 pounds. I’m going to have to find some metal landing gear, as none are supplied, though there are WM struts for holding up that rotodome, which is the size of a small hubcap.
Oh, and it comes in 1/72 scale for the Academy B-29s as well.
TOM