B-40 Mixfortress...

[Archibald]

This forum gave me plenty of ideas.
Thanks to you guys, I recyle my old (crap) models into something more attractive. After the Intruder and the Super Hornet, next victim of this lifting madness is my
B-29.
Here's the B-40 Mixfortress of 1946
In 1947, when the B-29 production was closed and the XB-44 in danger, Boeing proposed an interim type. Recycling the XB-40 designation, the plane was once again a B-29 derivative. Boeing took an old B-29 in a desert scrapyard...
(the plane had been cannibalised after the end of WWII, giving its turret and tail to another plane)



The plane was used as a testbed for a mixed propulsion B-29 (experience gained was useful when piston-engined tankers received jets pods, in the early 50's)

A raised canopy was added for the pilot...

...and the rear part of the plane was totally changed.


Result was a plane quite different from the original B-29

[B777LR]

Me likey! How about adding turboprops if you have any? Wing tip tanks? Removed turrets, and blanked off for more speed?

[Archibald]

In fact I thought about turboprops! I know how to have four T-56. Heller has a
C-130B, just have to send them a letter asking the four engines...
Wing tip fuel tanks are really a good idea. Have to check the spare box!
At the beginning, I thought about ultra-heavy modifications (engines in the wing-roots AkA Me P.1075 or canard pusher).
But I'm not Simon.R so this was a bit too much for me
 

[ysi_maniac]

I do like the nose with fighter canopy, like a Beagle.

Good plane.  

[cthulhu77]

If you can get a good side shot of that plane when you are done, have one of the photoshop wizards paste it into a shot of the Boneyard...would fool many a jmn!

[Archibald]

Just add wingtip fuel tanks (skyshadow pods from the now french tornado )  

[Archibald]

like a Beagle.

I think about a  Martin B-48 (don't ask me why!)

[NARSES2]

Nice one Archie

[Brian da Basher]

Ohhhhh YESSS Archie! This one rocks! I really like the addition of the bubble-top canopy and the T-Tail (Baz is already drooling I'm sure)! Great suff!

Brian da Basher

[Archibald]

latest news
Posted a letter to Heller asking them the four turboprops of their Hercule (USCG, 1970). not sure this request will be successfull (too many spares, not enough precisions...time will tell). waiting for that, I joined the two bomb bays into a HUGE one (the doors were bullshit, so I added new from cardboard, as usual )

[kitnut617]

Neat idea there, only suggestion would be you call it B-something else, there was a B-40.  It was a B-17 with extra turrets and waist guns where the idea was it would escort the B-17's to and from the target.  It was OK going there but once the B-17's dumped their bombs, the B-40's with all their extra weight, got left behind on the trip home.  So the idea was abandoned.  Some B-24's got converted too IIRC.

Robert

[kitnut617]

latest news
Posted a letter to Heller asking them the four turboprops of their Hercule (USCG, 1970). not sure this request will be successfull (too many spares, not enough precisions...time will tell). waiting for that, I joined the two bomb bays into a HUGE one (the doors were bullshit, so I added new from cardboard, as usual )

Failing that, you could get the long nacelle C-130 turbo-props conversion from Flightpath.

Robert

[Archibald]

Thanks for the advice!!! when I searched a number for the MixFortress, I went to Joe Baugher's website. I know there was a B-40 (sadly, there's no number available until B-60!). I chose this number because it was a follow on to B-39 and not too far from B-44. We can imagine that Boeing use the number a second time  

[Tophe]

Very interesting change! Great!
(I have immediately included a B-40Z in my twin-tail collection: http://www.whatifmodelers.com/forum//index...60&#entry156582 )  

[B777LR]

Next  idea from me:

A small radar dome in the nose, to steer the guns! (or detect enemy planes)

You know, the kind of radar you find on the Corsair wingtip

Should be simple, use the tips off a drop tank