B-29 Old Battler

[colin 2611]

Hi people, Iv just put the final finishing touches to my B-29, and i am well pleased the way its turned out, I rearly enjoyed this build, there was only a couple of small problems one being the cockpit assembly when I came to install it into the body of the plain the door way leading to the crawl tunnel was slightly to tall had to trim it down, and the other being the lack of weight at the nose end causing the plain to be tail heavy, I wish I had know about this before I assembled the body, I would have added a bit more weight, I was going to drill a small hole in the front wheel well and add some lead shot or chem fix to give it a bit more weight, as some of you kindly suggested, but there was not enough clearance to do this, I ended up takeing the lead of a fishing swim feeder and hammering it into shape so it fitted in the wheel well.


Hope you like the Old Battler,


By the way I went to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, yesterday great day out managed to get up close to the full size B-29 Hawg Wild see pictures. And yes had to visit the shop there and buy another model, Dogfight Doubles, Supermarine Spitfire Mk1a and Messerschmitt Bf109E-4View attachment 104842

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[Richi72]

Hi Colin,


not a plane guy myself but this looks great in my eyes.


Love the paint job and the decent weathering.


great job.


Cheers Richi

 

[colin 2611]

Hi Colin,
not a plane guy myself but this looks great in my eyes.


Love the paint job and the decent weathering.


great job.


Cheers Richi

Thanks Richi

 

[jono]

Congratulations on a great build & paint job Colin.


John.

 

[Robert1968]

Hi Colin I was thinking sometime in the near future of getting a "29" was the fit ok ( 1/48 or 1/72.??)


I would like to go down the route of non metallic finish so your guidance would be helpful. I've seen a few monogram/ revell on eBay so what's the best?

 

[monica]

just a great build,to me looks real good,very well done,

 

[flyjoe180]

Great job Colin, nice to see the OD B-29, a nice change.

 

[Caledonia]

Glad you fixed your tail siting problem, very nice build.

 

[steve scan]

Fantastic Colin, really like it.

 

[Dave W]

Great looking B29 Colin.

 

[phikoleoputra]

Great build Colin, looks very good. Did you paint The bombs yellow stripes or using decals?

 

[aaron]

Nice mate, fantastic model.

 

[colin 2611]

Congratulations on a great build & paint job Colin.
John.

Thanks John

 

[colin 2611]

Hi Colin I was thinking sometime in the near future of getting a "29" was the fit ok ( 1/48 or 1/72.??)
I would like to go down the route of non metallic finish so your guidance would be helpful. I've seen a few monogram/ revell on eBay so what's the best?

Yes fine it fitted together well, my 29 was 1/72 keeping to the same scale as the rest of my models, and hopeing it would fit in my display cabinet, but its got a fair old wing span and wont fit ill sort something out,


I normally would go for revell I find they go together well, but in this case I tried Academy

 

[colin 2611]

just a great build,to me looks real good,very well done,

Thanks monica

 

[colin 2611]

Great job Colin, nice to see the OD B-29, a nice change.

Thanks joe,

 

[colin 2611]

Glad you fixed your tail siting problem, very nice build.

Yes managed to sort that out ,thanks mate

 

[colin 2611]

Great looking B29 Colin.

Thanks Dave

 

[colin 2611]

Great build Colin, looks very good. Did you paint The bombs yellow stripes or using decals?

Im afraid my hand is not that steady, there decals, but still very fiddly

 

[colin 2611]

Nice mate, fantastic model.

Thanks aaron