04.06.2010, 14:13
Max,
Nice skin but several small critiques, The upper skins on the wing and the saddle area where it is lowered into the fuselage during assembly should be painted a silver gray. These areas were constructed with 7075 alloy which was not Alclad so they could not be easily polished hence they were painted. The rudder,elevator and ailerons were also painted with silver gray dope as they are fabric covered . The emergency escape hatches and cut here areas should be outlined with red hash marks plus a red no smoking stencil was applied to the nose gear doors. Look at the photo and you'll see what Im referring to. But again super job. BTW the two access panels above the wing root area were survival gear and life raft stowage. You will also notice the difference in shading on the cowl rings as there are constructed from corrosion resistant steel since they house the front exhaust collectors. Prop tips should be yellow with the Curtiss Electric decal instead of Hamilton Standard. Ham Standard is oval Curtiss electric is round. Prop cuff normally has some nomenclature stenciled in yellow, blade angles and such. The electric props were used because they were reversible . R-3350 spark plugs should be silver or black the photo of the 3350 you used for the skin probably had protex plugs mounted and they are normally red plastic and filled with silica to keep the inside of the cylinders dry. I believe most 29,s used the Hamilton Standards especally the Boeing built ones. The EG was actually built by Martin at their Omaha plant in Nebraska. Check out the slide show at this site http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0800/fra ... _0133.html
The Glenn L. Martin Company in Nebraska was established on February 14, 1941, upon the signing of a contract with the United States government for the construction and operation of an aircraft assembly plant at Fort Crook (now Offutt Air Force Base). The Nebraska plant was necessary because of a greater need by the United States Army Air Corps for the Martin B-26 Medium Bomber than could be met by the Baltimore facility of the Glenn L. Martin Company. The plant became operational on January 1, 1942. Production of aircraft began in June of 1942 following intensive training programs. Production of the B-26 Marauders tapered off in 1944. The Omaha plant made 1,585 B-26s. The operations then turned to the manufacture of B-29 Superfortresses. Five hundred and thirty-one B-29s were manufactured by the Glenn L. Martin Nebraska Plant, which represents about 13 and 1/2 percent of all B-29s produced in the country. The most significant of these B-29s produced at Fort Crook was the "Enola Gay," which dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
The plant reached peak employment in November of 1943 when 14,527 persons were employed at the Fort Crook facility. Of this number, forty percent were women. The plant won the Army-Navy "E" Award for excellence four times, evidence of its outstanding record of on-time and safe production. The plant closed in September of 1945.
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Nice skin but several small critiques, The upper skins on the wing and the saddle area where it is lowered into the fuselage during assembly should be painted a silver gray. These areas were constructed with 7075 alloy which was not Alclad so they could not be easily polished hence they were painted. The rudder,elevator and ailerons were also painted with silver gray dope as they are fabric covered . The emergency escape hatches and cut here areas should be outlined with red hash marks plus a red no smoking stencil was applied to the nose gear doors. Look at the photo and you'll see what Im referring to. But again super job. BTW the two access panels above the wing root area were survival gear and life raft stowage. You will also notice the difference in shading on the cowl rings as there are constructed from corrosion resistant steel since they house the front exhaust collectors. Prop tips should be yellow with the Curtiss Electric decal instead of Hamilton Standard. Ham Standard is oval Curtiss electric is round. Prop cuff normally has some nomenclature stenciled in yellow, blade angles and such. The electric props were used because they were reversible . R-3350 spark plugs should be silver or black the photo of the 3350 you used for the skin probably had protex plugs mounted and they are normally red plastic and filled with silica to keep the inside of the cylinders dry. I believe most 29,s used the Hamilton Standards especally the Boeing built ones. The EG was actually built by Martin at their Omaha plant in Nebraska. Check out the slide show at this site http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0800/fra ... _0133.html
The Glenn L. Martin Company in Nebraska was established on February 14, 1941, upon the signing of a contract with the United States government for the construction and operation of an aircraft assembly plant at Fort Crook (now Offutt Air Force Base). The Nebraska plant was necessary because of a greater need by the United States Army Air Corps for the Martin B-26 Medium Bomber than could be met by the Baltimore facility of the Glenn L. Martin Company. The plant became operational on January 1, 1942. Production of aircraft began in June of 1942 following intensive training programs. Production of the B-26 Marauders tapered off in 1944. The Omaha plant made 1,585 B-26s. The operations then turned to the manufacture of B-29 Superfortresses. Five hundred and thirty-one B-29s were manufactured by the Glenn L. Martin Nebraska Plant, which represents about 13 and 1/2 percent of all B-29s produced in the country. The most significant of these B-29s produced at Fort Crook was the "Enola Gay," which dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
The plant reached peak employment in November of 1943 when 14,527 persons were employed at the Fort Crook facility. Of this number, forty percent were women. The plant won the Army-Navy "E" Award for excellence four times, evidence of its outstanding record of on-time and safe production. The plant closed in September of 1945.
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