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Plz i need some help i ruined my b29 monogram
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Well I can try to remove the engines but I had trouble with them coming off all the time so there's allot of glue in there
The grey paint on the real plane is at the tips of the cowling and same on the strip on wing tops. I got 2 different color greys .The other one is allot darker I wanted your opinion on which one to use. But both greys are really the wrong shade according to the real plane but I'm done buying paint I got enough lol
The grey paint on the real plane is at the tips of the cowling and same on the strip on wing tops. I got 2 different color greys .The other one is allot darker I wanted your opinion on which one to use. But both greys are really the wrong shade according to the real plane but I'm done buying paint I got enough lol
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However the one in the museum doesn't seem to have the grey at the tips of the cowling.
OK. If you want you may use the light grey paint that seems to be of a quite close tinge to the one seen on the museum kite.
BTW please post a pic of the damaged engine cowling.
OK. If you want you may use the light grey paint that seems to be of a quite close tinge to the one seen on the museum kite.
BTW please post a pic of the damaged engine cowling.
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at6
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I wouldn't say that you're a lost cause. Just highly inexperienced at the moment. With each attempt your abilities will improve.I gotta give it a break I'm tired lol .Ill start again tomorrow. Thanks sooooo much for your helpeven though I'm a lost cause ;-\
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I went through a couple of sources for the B-29 and had a look around the net. As I suspected the grey colour at the front engine cowlings is a light trick. It appears that the areas should be of the steel plate tone. Also please notice that the bottom of the parts were of the polished silver tinge but not of the grey. Here pictures.
Also I have checked on the era pics of the bird. None of these I found indicates the grey on the front parts ..
If I were you I would follow the era images rather than the appearance of her at the museum. Additionally I think there wasn't the grey area at the wing tops too. The grey on the wing of the bird exhibited is the post war addition done after here renovation.
And here a color shot .. with the red fin tip.
If I were you I would follow the era images rather than the appearance of her at the museum. Additionally I think there wasn't the grey area at the wing tops too. The grey on the wing of the bird exhibited is the post war addition done after here renovation.
And here a color shot .. with the red fin tip.
However the shot below may suggest the grey there...
If you decide to follow the painting scheme of the museum bird , please notice that the grey on the fuselage wasn't of the band type. It gets a little bit over the the rectangle panels there. Also please make a focus on the ailerons that were of the same colour. Well, that's your decision you have to make. Just please let me know.
But.. IMHO the grey looking ares at the wing tops are the light trick too. As memo serves the B-29 was skinned with the corrosion-resistant aluminium plated panels. All areas that weren't covered with the skin type were painted silver. The kind of protection results in getting darker tone in time becuase of the oxidation of the aluminium dust that was the paint ingridient. Here are two shots of B-29s. Both of them present the silver, metalic tone of the painted areas but not as shiny as the rest of the skinning. What makes the idea more possible is that the central part of the wing and the fuselage were made as one solid structure of the plane and seem to be made of different plates in order to get the correct enduring strength. If you look at the first picture of the post you may notice that the plane covering already got some of the matt tone because of the oxidation in time. Therefore the silver painted areas got more of the dark tone there than the entire rest of the bird skin that was made of the more corrosion-resistant aluminium plated panels.
If you decide to follow the painting scheme of the museum bird , please notice that the grey on the fuselage wasn't of the band type. It gets a little bit over the the rectangle panels there. Also please make a focus on the ailerons that were of the same colour. Well, that's your decision you have to make. Just please let me know.
But.. IMHO the grey looking ares at the wing tops are the light trick too. As memo serves the B-29 was skinned with the corrosion-resistant aluminium plated panels. All areas that weren't covered with the skin type were painted silver. The kind of protection results in getting darker tone in time becuase of the oxidation of the aluminium dust that was the paint ingridient. Here are two shots of B-29s. Both of them present the silver, metalic tone of the painted areas but not as shiny as the rest of the skinning. What makes the idea more possible is that the central part of the wing and the fuselage were made as one solid structure of the plane and seem to be made of different plates in order to get the correct enduring strength. If you look at the first picture of the post you may notice that the plane covering already got some of the matt tone because of the oxidation in time. Therefore the silver painted areas got more of the dark tone there than the entire rest of the bird skin that was made of the more corrosion-resistant aluminium plated panels.
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Hay I just got back from Reading PA airport to see air show. Was soooo awesome. I wanted to take a ride in the b29 "FI FI " BUT it costs like $1500! Lol. I also wanted to take a tour in the b29 "DOC" BUT the line was a mile long and it was like 100 degrees! I got to see so many cool planes even the b17" Memphis Belle" my mom is in love with the p51 redtail so I got a ton of pics and videos of that we couldn't stay for the entire show it was just to damn hot! Here are some pics I took today. One is with my son, Ricky and I next to DOC. I took a ton of pics of the future planes I want to build so I can make them more accurate. I have not been modeling recently I'm in the middle of moving. But I'll get back to it soon!
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Nice, both B-29's at the same air show, nice!
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