An ambitious project to say the least, but completely insane!
Exactly how big is his garage? Gotta love eccentrics like this guy!
1:1 Scale? Is this guy serious??
And I thought that the guy who built the 1\6 scale Dora was nuts. This guy takes the prize.
I’m thinking 6 piston engines and 4 jet engines…
Can you get the main gear in resin?
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”.
Yeap, thats just bonkers ![]()
A lot more ambitious than the fellow building the 1/25 scale starship Enterprise, Mr. Trek.
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!!!
The cockpit itself would be quite the achievement, worthy of any museum.
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.
Well, he has only got ONE model in his stash,
just saying …
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.
We have a cutaway engine at the museum, like this one:
It actually has a motor drive.
Good luck scratching six of those.
I still can’t imagine how the rearward cylinders get cooled.
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.

