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Re: Boeing B-29 Superfortress ideas and inspiration
« Reply #275 on: October 04, 2021, 02:44:01 AM »
Random idea:  French Armée de l'Air B-29 or B-50 in the late 1940s/early 1950s.
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Re: Boeing B-29 Superfortress ideas and inspiration
« Reply #276 on: October 04, 2021, 03:12:29 AM »
Random idea:  French Armée de l'Air B-29 or B-50 in the late 1940s/early 1950s.

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Re: Boeing B-29 Superfortress ideas and inspiration
« Reply #277 on: October 04, 2021, 03:22:11 AM »
Possible schemes:

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Re: Boeing B-29 Superfortress ideas and inspiration
« Reply #278 on: October 04, 2021, 06:04:52 AM »
Possible schemes:

Or polished metal à la postwar Armée de l'air Marauders and Invaders?
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Re: Boeing B-29 Superfortress ideas and inspiration
« Reply #279 on: October 05, 2021, 02:49:08 AM »
That would work too.
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Re: Boeing B-29 Superfortress ideas and inspiration
« Reply #280 on: October 07, 2021, 10:40:32 PM »
Possible schemes:


:smiley:
B-29 in this scheme and with a French version of V-1 as a cruise missile carrier.
Or maybe a scale-o-rama'd version of the Matra R.511 for a guided missile as an anti-shipping/stand-off attack version.

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Re: Boeing B-29 Superfortress ideas and inspiration
« Reply #281 on: October 27, 2021, 02:57:44 AM »
Strangely enough I just bought this decal sheet off another Canadian who lives just down the road.

Note: For the non-Canadians, given our geography, the definition of "just down the road" is a drive lasting about 6-8 hours.
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Re: Boeing B-29 Superfortress ideas and inspiration
« Reply #282 on: October 28, 2021, 02:18:36 AM »
Note: For the non-Canadians, given our geography, the definition of "just down the road" is a drive lasting about 6-8 hours.

We get it.  I have been known to drive 180km twice a week just to go to the gym.
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Re: Boeing B-29 Superfortress ideas and inspiration
« Reply #283 on: October 29, 2021, 08:42:25 AM »
Strangely enough I just bought this decal sheet off another Canadian who lives just down the road.

Note: For the non-Canadians, given our geography, the definition of "just down the road" is a drive lasting about 6-8 hours.

Folks in the US get that as well.  ;)
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Re: Boeing B-29 Superfortress ideas and inspiration
« Reply #284 on: October 30, 2021, 01:36:14 PM »
Note: For the non-Canadians, given our geography, the definition of "just down the road" is a drive lasting about 6-8 hours.

We get it.  I have been known to drive 180km twice a week just to go to the gym.

Just walk to the gym and back, no workout required!

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Re: Boeing B-29 Superfortress ideas and inspiration
« Reply #285 on: October 31, 2021, 02:12:33 AM »
Yeah but one wanted to be able to work again the next morning... ;)...plus the location was kind of in the desert... :-\
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Re: Boeing B-29 Superfortress ideas and inspiration
« Reply #286 on: January 21, 2023, 02:52:11 PM »
What if the R3350 took rather longer to wring the bugs out and the USAAF was forced to go with the W3420-powered B-39 instead?


Hmmm...does anyone do a conversion for that I wonder?



There is now a 1/72 conversion for the XB-39 available on Ebay.  I know it's not your preferred scale, but....

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Re: Boeing B-29 Superfortress ideas and inspiration
« Reply #287 on: January 21, 2023, 07:56:23 PM »
What if the R3350 took rather longer to wring the bugs out and the USAAF was forced to go with the W3420-powered B-39 instead?


Hmmm...does anyone do a conversion for that I wonder?



There is now a 1/72 conversion for the XB-39 available on Ebay.  I know it's not your preferred scale, but....


I have bought other items from this Ebay seller. He's a good dude.
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