Beautifully restored HD video of B-36 Peacmaker

[alex94]

Title speaks for itself 


www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1-urTRxeEM

[Erik Ingram - HJG]

Good stuff, and a great movie

I've had to the opportunity to poke around the inside of a preserved B-36 a couple of times, and it's a truly impressive machine.

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

I think that above video clip probably came from the 1950's (or 60's) movie "6 TURNING - 4 BURNING" .... and which was probably a reference to the aircrafts 6 piston engines as well as the 4 jet engines with which it was powered

I was trying to acquire the MONOGRAM kit of it/the B-36 PEACEMAKER just recently .... part of MOMOGRAM's "BIG,BAD,BEAUTIFUL" series and which was normally marketed in 1/48 scale .... as was the case for their B-17, B-24, and B-29.

However the B-36 kit was "so large" they could only offer it in 1/72 scale .... and which still made of a model of impressive proportions.








I missed out on this one recently .... since the person selling the kit (overseas) appeared to be something of "AN IDIOT" .... whom couldn't seem understand that the purchaser (meaning us) were willing to pay for "the shipping as well as the kit", but, which he just couldn't seem to be able to grasp.

"It's too expensive for me to send it NZ" .... is what he said.

Obviously not a businessman/someone of little or no business acumen .... those sorts of people just "bother the hell out of me"

Given the fact "we'd repeatedly offered to pay the shipping cost ourselves" .... he was probably someone whom one should perhaps avoid being lured into buying anything from was our final conclusion .... albeit that we missed out on a kit that we really wanted and which was otherwise being offered at a very reasonable price/certainly below its current retail value.

It's since been re-released by REVELL-GERMANY ....





So .... we'll watch out for this one instead.

The vultures (again meaning us) are circling looking for a carcass to peck .... AKA the opportunity to do a bit more "tomb raiding" upon our discovery of the sale some ex-modellers deceased estate

All "legitimate business" though

Mark C
AKL/NZ

[tristar - HJG]

Feb 9, 2020 21:57:17 GMT aerofoto - HJG Admin said:

I think that above video clip probably came from the 1950's (or 60's) movie "6 TURNING - 4 BURNING" .... and which was probably a reference to the aircrafts 6 piston engines as well as the 4 jet engines with which it was powered

I was trying to acquire the MONOGRAM kit of it/the B-36 PEACEMAKER just recently .... part of MOMOGRAM's "BIG,BAD,BEAUTIFUL" series and which was normally marketed in 1/48 scale .... as was the case for their B-17, B-24, and B-29.

However the B-36 kit was "so large" they could only offer it in 1/72 scale .... and which still made of a model of impressive proportions.








I missed out on this one recently .... since the person selling the kit (overseas) appeared to be something of "AN IDIOT" .... whom couldn't seem understand that the purchaser (meaning us) were willing to pay for "the shipping as well as the kit", but, which he just couldn't seem to be able to grasp.

"It's too expensive for me to send it NZ" .... is what he said.

Obviously not a businessman/someone of little or no business acumen .... those sorts of people just "bother the hell out of me"

Given the fact "we'd repeatedly offered to pay the shipping cost ourselves" .... he was probably someone whom one should perhaps avoid being lured into buying anything from was our final conclusion .... albeit that we missed out on a kit that we really wanted and which was otherwise being offered at a very reasonable price/certainly below its current retail value.

It's since been re-released by REVELL-GERMANY ....





So .... we'll watch out for this one instead.

The vultures (again meaning us) are circling looking for a carcass to peck .... AKA the opportunity to do a bit more "tomb raiding" upon our discovery of the sale some ex-modellers deceased estate

All "legitimate business" though

Mark C
AKL/NZ

Hi Mark. The 1955 film Strategic Air Command. Best bit of the whole film is near the beginning when the 36 overfly's the baseball ground.
The sound of the 6 wasp majors is pure music to the ears.
When the film was made, it was in its swansong with B-47's in service and the imminent arrival of the B-52.
If I remember correctly, 1959 was the end of the line for the old bird.

Magnesium overcast is a very good book about this bird. Managed to pick a hardback up in 2015.

I have that model. Bought it when it first came out, top picture is the box. Seems like a lifetime ago The most expensive kit I had ever bought. Now its peanuts compared to what a current models go by.
I hope to build it one year, when I have the space.

Paul

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

Let me know if you want to sell it Paul .... and I "could be" interested .... but .... there's a bit more about it/the kit I'd need to know first.

Mark C
AKL/NZ

[alex94]

Interesting that the C-133 and TU-95 sound similar

C-133
youtu.be/JY26Uaws4DI

Tu-95
youtu.be/BGiINXLVL0c

Although similar, the bear and peacemaker sound much louder

[christian]

I was so happy to both aquiring the SAC movie and the Monogram kit of the B-36.

HPH from Czech Republic have made a 1/48 scale resin kit, will cost you, though.

www.hphmodels.cz/hph/b-36-peacemaker/?lang=en

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

"Interesting"

Only problem with a kit of a "very big" aircraft like that in 1/48th scale (and this applies to the like of the new 1/32 scale B-17, B-24, and LANCASTER kits too) .... is it's large length and span and trying to accommodate such dimensions within available furniture display space .... since the worst thing one can do to any expensive completed kit is having exposed to, and collecting, dust etc.

1/350 and even 1/200 scale kits of very large WW2 warships are far easier to accommodate due to their narrower span/beam.

Getting back to large aircraft kits though ....

The largest I currently have are a number of 1/72 scale B707-320B/C's, B-52's .... and 1/48 scale PBY CATALINA's.

Probably have to build a small house within which to accommodate everything for display at the rate we're going .... collecting and building ....
tonymadgehjg.proboards.com/thread/7876/latest-modelling-project

Mark C
AKL/NZ