SAT69 Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 1 hour ago, Mike Esposito said: Hopefully we will see this before 2021...🙏 Would like to see the announced XC-99 around that same time frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northernphotography Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 1 hour ago, SAT69 said: Would like to see the announced XC-99 around that same time frame. I'd like this, especially as the much awaited real thing is now back in AMAARG in its kit of parts. Photographed it about 6 years ago at the USAF Museum in Dayton and missed it San Antonio unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAT69 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 On 7/4/2020 at 11:48 AM, northernphotography said: I'd like this, especially as the much awaited real thing is now back in AMAARG in its kit of parts. Photographed it about 6 years ago at the USAF Museum in Dayton and missed it San Antonio unfortunately. My understanding is that the Air Force Museum, while they had it in dismantled state, decided it was too deteriorated to be a candidate for restoration. I'm guessing that it will ultimately be scrapped at AMARG, perhaps because that can be better facilitated there than it could have been at Wright Patterson AFB. It's really a shame because action taken many years earlier could have saved the old girl. She'd been at a site outside Kelly AFB since I was a kid and I'm 70 now. Northernphotography, I too look forward to the Roden kit and can only dream of 1/72 scale model too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Esposito Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 I would like to see the xc-99, but the B-36 was a far more important aircraft. Hopefully we will see both soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 An idea of price by A-market - pre-order: https://amarket-model.com/product/b-36-peacemaker-plastic-model/ V.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMA131Marine Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 On 7/17/2020 at 12:26 AM, Mike Esposito said: I would like to see the xc-99, but the B-36 was a far more important aircraft. Hopefully we will see both soon. I think, the only way we’ll get an XC-99 is if someone does a resin or vac fuselage conversion for this Roden kit. As far as I can tell, there were at least two vac conversions for the 1/72 Monogram kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6thCCU Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 3 hours ago, VMA131Marine said: I think, the only way we’ll get an XC-99 is if someone does a resin or vac fuselage conversion for this Roden kit. As far as I can tell, there were at least two vac conversions for the 1/72 Monogram kit. Anigrand has a C-99 coming , also a Martin Seamaster & Douglas C-132 in 144th, I'm looking forward to seeing the Roden B-36 hope we see some plastic shots soon, 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forsaken Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 On 6/25/2020 at 1:51 AM, Silver Seraph said: That is got to be the nicest box-art I have ever seen ! Nice release from Roden, considering how scarce the Hobbycraft kit is. Include the full wings and make it bigger they could go into the print/poster business! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albeback52 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 On 8/23/2020 at 8:10 PM, Homebee said: An idea of price by A-market - pre-order: https://amarket-model.com/product/b-36-peacemaker-plastic-model/ V.P. That's about £37.Not too bad. Allan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMA131Marine Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 On 7/15/2020 at 11:30 PM, SAT69 said: I'm guessing that it will ultimately be scrapped at AMARG, perhaps because that can be better facilitated there than it could have been at Wright Patterson AFB. I’m not sure this is accurate. It’s true that the XC-99 was in worse shape than expected and evaluation led to the conclusion that the wing spar would have to be rebuilt as part of any restoration. Lacking the financial resources to do the work in the near future they shipped the airframe to AMARG to prevent further deterioration. If they had just wanted to scrap it that could have been done easily enough at Wright-Pat and would have saved the expense of shipping all the components 2/3rds of the way across the country. Maybe, in the end, only parts of the aircraft get preserved and put on display but I believe this is still an open question. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAT69 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 30 minutes ago, VMA131Marine said: Maybe, in the end, only parts of the aircraft get preserved and put on display but I believe this is still an open question. If they preserved only the cockpit that would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted September 16, 2020 Author Share Posted September 16, 2020 (edited) Sources: http://www.roden.eu/HTML/347.html https://www.facebook.com/RodenKits/posts/3932395866776803 V.P. Edited November 12, 2020 by Homebee 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAT69 Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Went to the facebook page to get a closer look at the CAD. They're packing a lot of detail into this one. While my fingers would have problems with much of the little pieces, I can see building one of these in an "in flight" mode and I think it'd be most impressive. Anxious to see where they go with this; a series of B-36s perhaps? Still hoping for an XC-99. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Esposito Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 I'm gonna see if i can crosskit my hobbycraft b-36D kit with the 4 GE J47 turbo jets. So I dont have to wait for the release of the D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Club Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 I hope that accurate bomb bays doors will be available in resin for the first version of the B-36 (the B-36B has not the correct ones on the drawing). XB-35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted September 22, 2020 Author Share Posted September 22, 2020 (edited) Released - ref. 347 - Convair B-36B (early) Peacemaker https://modelsua.com/convair-b-36b-peacemaker-early-strategic-bomber-1-144-roden-347 https://plastic-models-store.com/Roden-347---1-144---Convair-B-36B-Peacemaker-(Early)---Scale-model-aircraft-13162.html V.P. Edited December 10, 2020 by Homebee 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6thCCU Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 (edited) Ok now we can see the plastic & I think from the clear parts a NB-36H Nuclear Testbed is coming,, http://www.roden.eu/HTML/347.html Edited September 24, 2020 by 6thCCU Added Image 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 5 hours ago, 6thCCU said: Ok now we can see the plastic & I think from the clear parts a NB-36H Nuclear Testbed is coming,, http://www.roden.eu/HTML/347.html Now that I would buy, be interesting to see how they do the alternative noses. Nice detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Esposito Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 (edited) OK. The wings and air intakes for the Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major engines looks correct! Looks like the dihedral problem was fixed....the proper fuselage wing join looks good! Yipee! can't wait! 👌 Edited September 24, 2020 by Mike Esposito Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6thCCU Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 (edited) I’ve been looking at the photo I see don’t see a cockpit maybe RetroKit will take care of that for us & the Bombay is different for the B & the B-36D-J but that shouldn’t but too hard to fix, I like the decals but I’ve heard no so good things about Roden decals but Carcal has a 1/144 set coming, without new tooling looks like no C-99 or FICON GRB-36 from the parts in this photo Anigrand has a C-99 coming & my Pops flew in it filming a Demo Flight in Dec’52 so I kind of have to build one, Cheers, BTW Fun Fact: Interceptor Pilots loved to intercept the C-99 because they were required to write down the serial number of their targets, there was only one C-99 & you could see it for miles so they didn’t need to waste a lot of JP-4 to get close to it, Edited September 24, 2020 by 6thCCU spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tomohawk Kid Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Kits are starting to appear on eBay, its a little more than had been previously touted - but, then again it is one heck of a chunk of styrene. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Roden-347-1-144-Convair-B-36B-Peacemaker-Early-Scale-model-aircraft-UK/254720395615?hash=item3b4e84c95f:g:0w4AAOSwXjRfYc9e Tommo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAT69 Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 2 hours ago, 6thCCU said: without new tooling looks like no C-99 or FICON GRB-36 from the parts in this photo I could be wrong but perhaps it's too soon to write off an XC-99 or the FICON GRB-36. I'm confident we'll see an RB-36 and one of the late model B-36s as well. We can hope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Esposito Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 A mite steep. 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tomohawk Kid Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 (edited) Now in stock at Hannants. https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/ROD347?result-token=GncB2 I was hoping for a price point more in line with the their C-133. Tommo. Edited November 27, 2020 by The Tomohawk Kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAT69 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 That's over $93 for us in the United States and I don't believe that includes shipping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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