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I lost some of the raised panel lines in that effort despite my best efforts to protect them through covering most of them in the sanding areas with painter's tape. Once I returned, I scraped my initial effort away and did it again, with results that appeared more satisfactory to my eyes.īut no, I was no where near done, as I was faced with a month of vigorous sanding to smooth everything out. I was faced with a bit of a learning curve, and actually messed everything up right before my Disney vacation over Thanksgiving week. In stepped a box of Milliput epoxy putty, a product that I'd never before used. Of course, there remained a big problem, in that while there were no longer any holes, there was also areas not flush with the surrounding fuselage surfaces. I ended up using the parts that Monogram provides as the covers, but I used CA to affix them to inside the fuselage. I thought long and hard on how I was going to fill those holes.
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With all that plastic carved away, you are left with a gaping hole in 4 spots along the assembled fuselage. Here is a shot of what Monogram produced on the left, and what must be done to do a Silverplate B-29 on the right: The parts that Monogram included to make such a bomber are in no way, shape, or form accurate, as they result in obvious bulges outsie the fuselage. The turret fairings are part of the two-part fuselage halves and must be carved away if one is going to produce an accurate reproduction of the Silverplate B-29.
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Monogram did not mold their kit in such a way that a Silverplate bomber is an easy task. The removed turrets are replaced with a cover that is also flush with the fuselage.
B 29 ENOLA GAY CREW WINDOWS
There also are covers over most of the windows of the aircraft (not the cockpit, obviously), and these covers are flush with the surrounding fuselage. There are notable differences between a Silverplate B-29 and a conventional B-29, most obviously the 4 turrets removed from the Silverplate bomber. The Silverplate program existed solely for the atomic bombers. Initially I was going to do both atomic bombers, but once I really got a look at all that was going to be involved in producing a "Silverplate" Superfortress out of the vast amounts of plastic that Monogram crammed into that huge box, I opted for a different approach - I'd build one Silverplate as the Enola Gay, and the other as a conventional B-29 Superfortress. Midway through last year I decided that I was going to build one of them - and then I got to thinking that once I finished what I knew was going to be a daunting build, was I really going to want to tackle that second one down the line? So both ended up on my bench at the same time last September. So there I was, for those many years, with not one, but two of these beasts in my stash. Some time along about 2005, I picked up a re-release of this kit (I'll have a separate thread for that build), but then for reasons that I cannot explain, I picked up an original 1977 release of this kit via eBay. Once I resumed modeling back in 1995, I always knew I'd want to tackle this monster of a kit again someday. My dad divorced that lady in 1980, and I never saw that model again. I only have vague memories of what happened to that build, but what I do remember is that sometime in 1979, my dad remarried, and they lived in a condo in SW Houston, where I remember that B-29 model at one point leaning against a wall atop a high shelf in a bedroom, and then later having been relocated to above the open-air rafters in the garage. Back then, I don't believe that I had yet discovered paint for model airplanes, and I immediately set to putting that beast together. Way back in 1977, I found this box under my Christmas tree. I have finally completed a dual project of two Monogram B-29 bombers that I began on 2 September 2019. Well, let no one ever say that I am not a glutton for punishment.