Revell 1/181 B-36 Peacemaker - Fill and sand cycle..

It is now in the now stuck in the prime fill and sand cycle...

 This is the second round, I've finally figured out how to use the little bottles of Tamiya Fine Surface primer, gave my bottle a good stir and got all the sediment off the bottom and works much better.

They had moulded on the wing walk lines, and I was going to leave but, filled them in.

 The engine pods have taken some work the inlets were much too large, and took some serious sanding to get to blend in.
I've filled the large holes for the support strut.

Next job will be to reshape the propeller spinner, to make it more conical. I've snipped the blades off, and will make some prop blurs for it, so that makes the job easier.

Cheers
Jim

Revell 1/181 B-36 Peacemaker - Canopy and wing gappage

Hi there,

Finally back to this one, I have been building a Revell Monogram 1/48th Lunar module, which has been a nice break from planes, I'll post some piccies soonish.

The B-36 has had it's wing fuselage gaps filled with milliput..

Still need a coat of primer to check any issues.

The blobby boys have been finished and fitted..

Recovered from a CA fogging issue, by dripping some Klear in through the nose and sloshing it around the inside of the canopy, phew..

A bit of filler around the canopy, then on with the clear nose cap, which just had another dip in Klear, as one coat wasn't enough to stop CA fog for the main canopy.

Cheers
Jim

Revell 1/181 B-36 Peacemaker - The Little People

After fettlign with the canopy, I thought I needed to put something in the gaping hole in the front of the fuselage, at least to blank the nose from the canopy...

So scratched a cockpit.

and since it's in flight it needs a crew...

some wire work and super glue gel, and we have the fab four.

Next to a big 1/72 fella..

A squirt of primer and some colour and they'll do.

So back to fill'n sanding the rest of the parts..

Cheers
Jim

Revell 1/181 B-36 Peacemaker - gappages

Almost have the cockpit sorted out, a bit more blending in

Cemented on the engine nacelle halves..

A bit of fill'n sand required on the side of these, the lower wing surface seems to be convex.

A bit of fill required at the rears as well..

Cheers
Jim

Revell 1/181 B-36 Peacemaker - Fuselage..

Fuselage work last night, trying to banish the seams yet keep some roundness..

ended with one furrow here which I've filled with CA. The canopy doesn't look like its sits right to me so I'm building up the cockpit sides to raise it a tad.

Looking forward to these joints...

the left one (upper) I've worked on a little, the right hasn't yet as I got the wing halves misligned and had to split the wing to try again.

She's a decent size still..

Cheers
Jim

Revell 1/181 B-36 Peacemaker

Having a definite lack of modelling oomph at the moment, but have been tempted by some small scale stuff. (I'm a 1/72 kind of guy.) Recently bought this set:

Revell 1/144 Air Power Combo

A nice selection of heavy metal, will test my overall grey painting ability. Soon after I saw this on our local auction site, and bought it:

Revell 1/181 B-36 Peacemaker

I thought would fit nicely with the other three, even though not the same scale.

I dived straight into it, and quite enjoying it.

Interesting to see it was made here in New Zealand by Lincoln, I've had a few older Revell kits like that.

I was wondering how old it was, and it told me: 1954, 59 years old few makes me feel very young.

A good size even at 1/181.

Panel line markings, and tail serial number, it does have decals as well.

Nice stand included, no wheels down option at all, suits me fine.

Transparent parts, look really nice to me, fine raised frame lines, and not marked at all.

A bit of flash here and there, and needs a bit of tidying at the wing roots.

Two piece tailplane.

So as tonight, sanded all the locating lugs off, squared up the mating surfaces, fuselage is being cemented in stages and wings are drying.

Cheers
Jim