Para-Martin A-26P Reduaram



The Martin B-26 Marauder was an American bomber from World War II. Even before the first prototype, the USAF, enthusiastic about the bomber's plans, had ordered a batch of more than a thousand planes from the Glenn L. Martin Company. The first flight of the prototype was in November 1940 and the first deliveries to the USAF in February 1941. Just a couple of months later, the Marauder was grounded due to several accidents caused by several design errors.

At Glenn L. Martin Company, panicked, they thought about how to save the order of over thousand bombers and prevent closing the factory. In distress, the company's management contacted Dr. Fritz Paraman at his hideout in Iceland. As a German mad scientist, he had already moved out of Germany before the war in order to provide aeronautical consulting to all parties to the war.

Dr. Paraman gave the Glenn L. Martin Company a suggestion to modify the Marauder into an attack aircraft and tank destroyer by mounting a 3" anti-tank gun in the nose. The doctor also suggested turning the plane around to make it a canard-type aircraft and perhaps a bit faster. The Martin Company took this advice and the required modifications were made for one of the production aircraft.The new Para-Martin A-26P Reduaram made its maiden flight in June 1941 and proved to be a major disappointment.



The Reduaram was slower than the original Marauder and firing the cannon almost stopped the plane in the air. At the end of the third test flight, during landing, Reduaram's landing gear failed. The Martin Company concluded from this that the fault lies in the wing loading and weak landing gear. These defects were soon corrected in the Marauders, and their grounding was lifted. Reduaram was also repaired, but it ended up in storage for a long time.



However, it was excavated in 1944 for Operation Overlord. On the first sortie, it destroyed one German tank, but a cannon shot caused it to stall and so it crashed. Dr. Paraman never got to see his creation in flight, but he doesn't want to admit that he had anything to do with Reduaram.





But actually it is a 1/72 B-26 Marauder from an old Matchbox kit turned around  The cannon is from 1/100 IS-3 Zvezda kit

VERY inventive thinking. 

You'll fit right in here, no problem.   

Well, if you're going to commit indignities to a B-26 Marauder, this is the type of indignity to commit!  

Another good job, UhuFin!

This is just crazy ! Very imaginative, never seen anything like it ! Great stuff and great build. Thanks for sharing !

          Great!!

Thanks, mates! 

I've always wanted to build something similar to this but didn't know to go about it. Great work 

Mad!  The in build pics make it look like a shapelier FW42 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_42).

Maybe 'Canardise it!' could be a 2023 GB theme?

Bloody hell what were you smoking when you came up with this ??
What ever it was it worked ..epic build man 
It's weird as hell ..it's backwards and forwards at the same time and beautifully painted..love it 

Bravo!

 

That's as mad as a March Hare but absolutely brilliant 

Well, that made my eyes dilate. 

Quote from: NARSES2 on October 24, 2022, 06:16:13 AMThat's as mad as a March Hare but absolutely brilliant 

And totally bonkers too. 

Wild. There actually was a similar layout for a B-26 successor (maybe one of the early XB-33 designs with just two engines, but I am uncertain) with canard wings, but IIRC it even had twin booms with fins on each.

Thanks, mates!

Quote from: Dizzyfugu on October 24, 2022, 07:21:26 AMWild. There actually was a similar layout for a B-26 successor (maybe one of the early XB-33 designs with just two engines, but I am uncertain) with canard wings, but IIRC it even had twin booms with fins on each.

I had to check that and holy cow that is funny looking viggenized Marauder XD

It's Martin Model 189 XB-33