Convair B-36 (oz14285)

 

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I believe these were the plans used in the EUREKA model company of Oklahoma City. I knew the owner Mr. Jerry Asner. I asked him why the odd wingspan, 115 inches would have made it 1/24 scale. He said it was lost in translation from his Japanese supplier.
Thomas Solinski - 30/12/2022
This would require a hammer throw athlete for a pilot, a guy like me would look like a grader on tow!
Miguel - 30/12/2022
Eureka Shoki of Tokyo company started in 1948 in Japan by Kamenosuke Kukobu that had a company in Java before WW2. After the end of the war he came back home and became a purchaser agent for US Forces, he started the model company to supply the demand of US occupant soldier for better models. Kits are made in small different family home shops specialized in a single parts process, higly finished wood parts, finally boxed an sold in Tokyo. Initially the kits are made with Kiri wood, later in balsa that not offers the same finishing grade of Kiri wood. Eureka kits main customer are US soldiers in Japan and Korea, the cost of a B-29 (12.0 USD) wasn’t affordable by one dollar day Japan people. With the reduction of US forces in this country the company stopped selling and producing in a short night time, ending with hundreds of kits and no buyers. Jerome Asner 1929-2018 (Eureka importing Co.) started a venture with Kukobu in order to import and resell their kits in USA but their models were copied by other Jap companies too. There is a little confusion in Japan cl scale kits producers, this is a Kyo (Kyosho), and not from Eureka that made their own B-36 kit. In Japan after the end of WW2 was forbidden any kind of radio transmission by private so the model companies turned to control line kits.
Complete story of Eureka Models by Jerry Asner in issue #45 of the K.A.P.A. Kollector.
pit - 30/12/2022
I think I could actually build this thing, would be SOME project though. Biggest stumbling block would be the bubble canopy and bombardier's nose. 6 electric motors of about 19 size power would be easy, batteries in each pod. I wouldn't use retracts. Wingspan, as measured on the plan, each wing 70.5" works out to 141". I would need to clean out my whole basement and buy a new bucket of sheet rock mud as crack filler. It's always something.
Doug Smith - 15/09/2023
Hi, I enjoyed reading this page oz14285 about the B-36 model that must be the same one that was gifted to me back around 1969 from a friend that was serving in Vietnam at the time in the U. S. Air Force. My father and I worked on it (mostly my father) for quite some time but never did finish it. I have included some photos of it under construction [pics 005-007] that I wanted to share. Thanks,
Mark Spellman - 21/08/2024
I don't know what plan they used, but the mother son team of Addie May Naccarato and Tony Naccarato Jr. built an RC B-36 back in the day (probably early 1990s). Addie did the actual building working in the T&A Hobby Shop in Burbank California. I was a frequent visitor to the shop and watched as the model progressed. Addie took about a year and a half to build the model. It was powered by 6 cobalt Astro 5 motors. When finished, the B-36 was pictured on the cover of the old Model Builder magazine. I got so see the model fly out at Sepulveda Basin. Tony Jr. was a very good RC model pilot and the B-36 was impressive in flight. Tony and Addie then took their B-36 up to an IMAAC contest on El Dorado Dry Lake outside Las Vegas. Something happened--radio interference, an electrical glitch--etc. and the model crashed with sufficient damage that it was beyond repair.
Mike Myers - 21/08/2024
it was developed with B-36 in Action by Squadron Signal publication, 1/48 scale Monogram kit and Convair original plans. Published article only on Model Builder May 1988
Pit - 21/08/2024
Just a small point: Monogram's kit is 1/72 scale, not 1/48. Can you imagine a B-36 in 1/48 scale hanging in your bedroom? You would have to move out your bed. There is a very nice card model of the B-36 printed by Fiddlersgreen. You can check it on the web. Best wishes.
EDUARDO
Eduardo - 22/08/2024
Eduardo, see that impressive 1/48 scale kit....
https://imodeler.com/2017/12/hph-1-48-convair-b-36-peacemaker-preview/
Pit - 22/08/2024
Thanks, as stated before, one has to get out of the bedroom to accommodate this beautiful model.
EDUARDO
Eduado - 23/08/2024
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