Scratch Building a 1:1 B-36H

West Virginia man has spent 5 years and over $200,000 building the last Convair B-36H Peacemaker in his garage

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An ambitious project to say the least, but completely insane!

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Exactly how big is his garage? Gotta love eccentrics like this guy!

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1:1 Scale? Is this guy serious??

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Judging by the pics showing what he has built so far, he still has a loooong way to go… :thinking:

H.P.

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And I thought that the guy who built the 1\6 scale Dora was nuts. This guy takes the prize.

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I’m thinking 6 piston engines and 4 jet engines…

Can you get the main gear in resin?

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One of the common slogans about the B-36 was “six turning, four burning”, but with its ongoing engine problems, this morphed into “two turning, two burning, two smoking, two choking and two more unaccounted for”.

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Yeap, thats just bonkers :upside_down_face:

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A lot more ambitious than the fellow building the 1/25 scale starship Enterprise, Mr. Trek.

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I can just see the dating app. Hobbies/interests: I am building the worlds largest bomber from the cold war, in my garage. I spend all my time and money on it. Would be interested in going out with me? I can show you my cockpit!!!

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The cockpit itself would be quite the achievement, worthy of any museum.

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He is going to need a long lifespan…

I followed a blog for a few years of a guy building two P 26 Peashooters from scratch . He even built a new shop building to accommodate them as they grew . I think he had nearly completed two fuselages when he sadly passed away. Apparently they have been donated and are being completed by a firm in Everett, Washington.

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Well, he has only got ONE model in his stash,
just saying …

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Sorta like a ratio problem 25 years to make a giant metal model or 25 years to make 4000 plastic models. The real result I think, is neither will occur.

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We have a cutaway engine at the museum, like this one:

It actually has a motor drive.

Good luck scratching six of those.

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I still can’t imagine how the rearward cylinders get cooled.

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The engines were equipped with an Anti-Detonation Injection (ADI) system, which sprayed a mix of water and methanol directly into the engine cylinders. The cyliners are also offest, not directly behind one another, which improves cooling to a degree. The cowlings were also ducted to insure rear cylinders received cooling air as well.

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