This is the kit I will be starting my "Bombs Away" campaign entry with.
The AMT / Ertl YB-49.



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That's a great looking plane!! What scale is the kit?

Paul

What's taking you so long? Where are the pics?

hi Tankcarl looks like a nice project great to have you onboard. glad your warming up your engines.

It's 1:72nd.I plan on "busting open" the plastic bags of parts on Jan 1st.I will fire up the webcam for live building. (++) (++)

GREAT IDEA!!!

Where and what time you go "on-air"????

You wont slowly start to lose clothing items in true webcam fashion i hope! :-)
Looks good mate, should be an interesting build.
Cheers

God, I hope not, I've only seen him with his clothes on, and thats bad enough!!!! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Carl, I can't believe you're building a wingy thingy.

Can't wait to see it.

Dave S.

The web cam adress is http://tankcarl.ww.com
i have it on a bit now,when I am in intense chat w/Zod and others in the MSN chat room,or in a group AOL chat room.
I plan on firing it up The day of Jan 1st.I don't know the time,but I will post somewhere about
"Live Wingy Building "
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That's such a cool idea!! We look forward to following your every move!!!

Cheers!!

Since the B-49 is so large,I am starting construction using my dinning room table.





I did some prepainting on the interior walls.
I have decided against the open bomb bay,since I don't have any images of what was inside,and how the doors opened.But I will do a second bombeer for this campaign,to do a bomber with a bomb load and open bomb bay doors.

Just an update.
The cockpit interior bits are painted and assembled.I have the walls assembled,and have a little spot touch up to do.Test fitting the fuselage top and bottom together,most of my work will be unseen,there are few windows to see in.
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Tonight I touched up the paint on the cockpit area,and I assembled the outer wing panels.





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WOW! Great looking cockpit!

looking good so far.. can't wait to see the finished plane..

Here is where I put added value into my wing...






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Hey Carl... good looking build so far.

Are you planning to put those coins in the bomber, permernantly?

Hi Carl!

A coin bomber! Maybe that's the solution for all the problems around the world: drop money not bombs! :-)
Looking forward to see more pictures...

Jean-Luc

Yep,this build will always have value.I glued the pennies in for weight ,to keep it from being a "tailsitter".
Tomorrow,I will attach the center wing section over the lower wing.I have cleaned up and put on some parts on the landing gear struts.Also the wheel halves are together,and still on the sprue to make it easy to paint.

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