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Monogram 1/72 B-36, backdated to a B-36B. This allowed me to use a picture I found in National Geographic as a reference. and build this pretty plane. Note, no buzz number- apparently the photo I was working from predated them or this plane wasn't marked in the initial round. I don't think any intercontinental nuclear bomber looks good marked "BM 033", to cite one fairly popular photo.... Converting from the kit's RB-36H back to a -B consisted of: 1) Saw off large fairing for twin dome tail radar (separate target and fire control antennae...) I just used a cross-cut saw. Comparing saw to plastic, it was not unlike using a razor saw on a 'normal' size 1/72 plane. This kit is HUGE. 2) Fill gap created- two layers of sheet styrene took care of it: One layer across the inner surface and a second layer as a filler to bring the height up to the rest. 3) Cut twin radome part in half, shape for single tail radar option. With that out of the way: 4) Fill slots for underwing twin jet engine pods with part-tree plastic cut and sanded to shape. The best filler for styrene models is more styrene. 5) Glue late-model snap-action bomb bay doors closed, fill the engraved seams, scribe original design rolling door panel lines. Yes, if I'd scabbed 0.02 sheet on it would have been better, but I thought it looked ok as was. 6) The 'swivel' action of the nose turret was badly out of scale- the moving part was sunken behind the fixed nose pieces. So I lined it up centered, glued it in place that way and filled the edges. I could still elevate the twin guns, and I left the tail turret as it came from Monogram. All the pieces of this kit were 'chunky', almost as if it was a 1/144 plan that was tooled 2X. Probably not, but interior detail WAS pretty sparse- nothing like the cut-away submarine quality of the 1/48 B-17, B-29 or B-24. 7) Round all 18 prop blade tips for early model. The square tip blades were to absorb more horsepower, I don't know if the R4360s were upgraded for more 'poke' or whether getting the last iota only got attention after other problems were solved... 8) Take a guess and remove 4 of the 6 engine controls the flight engineer's position in the cockpit. Also omit one of the two flight engineer seats, that's a late model feature. 9) Glue, fill, file, sand. apply my usual Squadron Green Putty + Aerogloss flying model dope thinner slurry as a filler everywhere. I tried mightily to align the long seams down the top and bottom of the fuselage so that there's be no step, but I probably should have tried harder, and made sure the TOP absolutely lined up right. Silver paint spray pattern: The photo I worked from clearly showed a number if different "bare metal" finishes, so I used: "chrome" (Pactra or Testors...) for nose, fuselage behind bomb-bay. Fuselage in center, wing: "Testor's "Silver", polished in walkway area. MUCH later, when I got the Detail & Scale book, I discovered that the pressurized compartments at the ends were Duraluminum and polished, while the unpressurized bomb-bay and a lot of the wing skin were magnesium (!) and thus painted with aluminum paint to prevent corrosion. The darker shade I got by polishing the regular 'silver' (aluminum) spray paint is visible in photos- whether scuffing of boots, a light texture obtained by putting something chunky into the paint or perhaps a more durable paint than on the "don't walk" areas I don't know. I guess its also possible the walkways were actually aluminum and left bare, but not as polished as the pressure compartments. Or they got a different color of paint. The tail number, 49xyzn came neatly from a 1/48 F-8 Crusader decal sheet, which had a tail number of 149xyz! So I cut off the 1 and got the other digit from somewhere... How about THAT for a pattern recognition story? I sure wish I'd taken more photos of it- it hung in my office for some years, and was destroyed by being dropped (duh) when I moved. I never did glue the wings on, the fit was good enough I could slide them on over U channel "spar" that Monogram provided. I put enough used-up dry cells (Ds & AAs) at the front edge of the bomb-bay area to make it stand on its landing gear, but it was fearfully heavy. Fortunately, the landing gear were massive. It looked awesome parked on a flat surface, but that surface had to be about 1M square!

The didn't seem to be standard (or at least we'd never seen this kind before), so we upgraded them with some silver spray paint