HPH B-36 Peacemaker A truly LARGE scale model.

[Clunkmeister]

Thanks Carl. 
It looks like I’ll need to do a lot of scrathbuilding on the bottom of the upper deck. 
It’s extremely visible and is totally barren in the kit. 
The kit is missing a lot of small details around Borge the reader bomb Aimee and the visual bombardier. Roof texturing and padding, wiring, piping, switch boxes, and work lights. 

[IainMackayDall]

Any idea what the big tractor vehicle is towing this B-36?

[sluggo]

2 hours ago, IainMackayDall said:

Any idea what the big tractor vehicle is towing this B-36?

https://bringatrailer.com/2016/11/15/b-36-peacemaker-tow-rig-1950s-coleman-cf-55-af-tug/

[FME erk]

I got the impression that the 'cab' was two saloon bodies back to back.

I would say that you could build that Ernie . . . . .

[GusMac]

12 hours ago, FME erk said:

I got the impression that the 'cab' was two saloon bodies back to back.

I would say that you could build that Ernie . . . . .

Yeah, does look like a Morris Minor grafted onto a Scammell or some such!

[Clunkmeister]

4 hours ago, GusMac said:

Yeah, does look like a Morris Minor grafted onto a Scammell or some such!

It looks like a couple of American Chevrolet truck cabs back to back

[Clunkmeister]

[Sir Desmond Glazebrook]

8 hours ago, Clunkmeister said:

I don't think that B-36 is the B-36 you think it is. 

[shark64]

any update on this build?

[Clunkmeister]

1 hour ago, shark64 said:

any update on this build?

Working on the instrument boards

[rkranias]

Nice pit work Ernie. 

[Clunkmeister]

On 1/15/2020 at 7:42 PM, rkranias said:

Nice pit work Ernie. 

Thanks, Rick.  Looking better as of now, but I’m in the middle of the very tedious engineer panel.  Each individual gauge must be correctly placed...  uuuuuugh

 

[Sir Desmond Glazebrook]

Ernie, that gauge on the left should be on the right!!!!!! 

[Clunkmeister]

Hey folks, still working on the cockpit area and I was stopped because I was doing dome serious research on this. 

The cockpit and crew areas in Pima bird that was restored by Convair is painted in a very pleasing grey-blue color that’s different from all I’ve seen around. Now, I was under the impression that interior green was used, but like any good ol’ senile guy, I questioned myself. 

Here’s the Pima bird’s pit:

 

[Clunkmeister]

However the Wright Patterson Museum Bird, an (I believe) unrestored bird, shoes something entirely different:

 

[Clunkmeister]

So I think I’m safe. I had used interior green, and although I will modulate it slightly, I think I’m on the right track here.   The big interior areas are the bomb bay and it seems a bit brighter of a green than the crew areas  

Thoughts?

[seiran01]

Go with some style of green, the Pima pics look to me like a dark green possibly with a hint of blue and any eye trickery beyond that being the light and camera settings. 
 

what on earth is the steering wheel thing on the pilots left console? Is that for grounds steering like a streetcar? LOL

[Clunkmeister]

The steering wheel is exactly that: nosewheel steering. Most modern transports have a version of that

[IainMackayDall]

8 hours ago, Clunkmeister said:

Hey folks, still working on the cockpit area and I was stopped because I was doing dome serious research on this. 

The cockpit and crew areas in Pima bird that was restored by Convair is painted in a very pleasing grey-blue color that’s different from all I’ve seen around. Now, I was under the impression that interior green was used, but like any good ol’ senile guy, I questioned myself. 

Here’s the Pima bird’s pit:

 

Was there any e-Bay purchase of some Ex-Soviet/Russian cockpit colour for the restoration?

[Clunkmeister]

Exactly what I thought, Iain. it looks like a Sukhoi color.  

But the original looks like good ol' US interior green in the bomb bay and a slightly darker? variation in the cockpit.  maybe camera light tricks.  In one pic it almost looks like an RAF interior green.

[Jeff]

Wouldn't it be cool to see one of these flying?  What an awesome bird......  For me it would be cool just to SEE one for real......

[Clunkmeister]

Jeff, it makes the B-52 look like a toy.  It's absolutely massive in every way. The two I've seen are the one at Wright Pat, and the one in Omaha.  If you can make a Nats in Omaha, we usually all get out to the SAC Museum, and it'll blow your mind, man.  A B-52 is a bit smaller than a B-36 but is much less massive and it looks like a kids toy beside the 36.

 

[Martinnfb]

some cool pics.

[Martinnfb]