B-36 & XB-35

For all intents the B-36 project is finished.

There is still some detail work i could do..but at this point

I am going to leave it and move on until i become inspired

to super detail it.

I had originally wished to decal it as an in-service aircraft.

One that actually existed but decals--what a worthless endeavor.

Even the expensive aftermarket set i purchased refused to work

possibly because of the metallic paint?

I wound up using whatever decals survived and would stick...

So historic accuracy went out the window.

It is huge, even in 1:72 scale and luckily with the nerd cave

rebuild I have an upper shelf that actually can physically

handle displaying it.

This was an over 20 year old kit which is no longer available for sale

i purchased it from a private seller off of Amazon

all the parts were there, and only one prop blade was broken

and easily fixed...amazing results when you think of it.

I then moved right into constructing the XB-35.

Another antique kit over 20 years old.

The XB-35 was the original flying wing--and a competitor in development

against the B-36.

Ten were built, and it had great promise but was done in

by defense department politics, but it was the grandfather 

of the current B-2 Stealth Bomber. 

Defense Department film footage of the XB-35 is used in the original

War of the Worlds film from the 1950's to drop a nuclear 

weapon on the invading Martians. 

This model is also a large one,even in 1:72 scale, and once again i am lucky to have

the perfect display location for it when completed on a specific shelf in the rebuilt nerd cave...

I am considering leaving it in the flat primer gray color,

rather than painting it aluminum in color per the real ones.

There is something about the flat color that make this

model appear even more stealth-like and I am building these aircraft for

art and display, not for historical accuracy.

I'll just have to go with how i feel as i work on it.

I view the construction of these aircraft models as art.

My own form of art but none the less art to display

in the nerd cave.

I have several aircraft models in stock to construct towards this goal.

Aircraft of the 20's 30's and 40's that are in and of themselves Art Deco

in their design--diesel punk art works displaying what their inventors/designers

felt the future would hold.

The first commerical airliner ever manufactured

the 1919 Junkers F.13

The Heinkel 70-G-1

an airmail plane of the 1930's

The Short Sunderland flying boat.

I am planning on building and displaying all of these.

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."

Henry David Thoreau