Convair B-36 Peacemaker strategic bomber
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Here are some photos of my recently completed B-36, representing a plane (01086, “Miss Featherweight”) based at Carswell during the early 1950’s. This model was built using the Roden 1/144 kit, with a few scratch built details. I [...]
Thirty four years in the making of this kit.
I started it in 1985.
Put it away in 1986 when i started a new position at work.
Forgot about it until moving back from Florida in 1998.
I decided it was time to finish the kit.
Started working [...]
Further to the earlier post by by Josh Patterson, here are some photos of the HPH Models 1/48 scale B-36 kit as demonstrated in Telford in November.
Hopefully this gives a good idea about the size of this mammoth kit, bat also the level of [...]
HPH has gone all out now. The kit I have been dreaming about since childhood that everyone said no one would ever make just got released today. HPH was at Telford, but I don't know if they brought a prototype with them. (At least I havent [...]
Although I was not at "The Home", I built this for a lady whose Father worked on the B-36. He is elderly and she wanted it to give to him before the inevitable happens.
It does not represent a B-36 from any squadron in [...]