GPM B-29 results

[modelperry]

This huge project was completed today. I won't be building another one. I also won't be transporting it around.

While it looks deceptively simple in the grand scheme of aircraft models, it makes up for it in unwieldy size. The small number of build diagrams and written instructions doesn't help. Oh and you can't really build this by part number sequence.

Anyway, here are a few beauty shots. If you want any more detail, look me up on Facebook.

Greg

[YOAVHOZMI]

The model looks beautiful and impressive, and you did a very nice job.

I think there is a small problem with the model with the motors, probably a GPM design problem.
The internal motors are slightly angled downward while the external ones are at a right angle.
In reality all engines are at right angles.


YOAV

[Don Boose]

Wow!

Massive project. Turned out beautifully. Looks good in India-China 1944 olive drab.

Joe Baugher has this: "Boeing B-29A-1-BN Superfortress 42-93828. Delivered to USAAF 21 Mar 44. Assigned to 794th Bomb Squadron, 468th Bomb Group, Kharagpur, India 5 Jul 44. Named ‘Monsoon Goon’. Declared war weary. Returned to CONUS 15Dec44. Reclaimed at Pyote AFB, TX 30 Nov 49."

In his unofficial 468th Bombardment Group history, William Wooten says, "The Monsoon Goon, A/C 42-93828, was Levi Goodrich’s plane. To the best of my knowledge, this plane at one time had 16 aborts. It was received in the Squadron on July 5th and returned to the US on December 15th 1944, with a record of 5 combat missions from India and China and 2 Hump trips." William Wooten, The Story of The “Billy Mitchell Group” 468th Bomb Group (VH) From the C.B.I. to the Marianas, Windsor Locks, CT: New England Air Museum, 2008, p. 113.

Don

[Burning Beard]

My father was Co-Pilot of the Monsoon Goon, but not that one. He was with the 676 of the 444 Bombardment Group. His was with the first group to go to India and fly the Hump. The plane he flew over, across the Atlantic to North Africa, Egypt then India was green like that Monsoon Goon, there were only five of them and the others were unpainted. He said the one they flew over was converted to a tanker and went down somewhere on the Yellow River (if I remember correctly). They later received two different planes, I think the whole group had their planes replaced and were then transferred to Tinian. His last plane was was appropriately named Monsoon Goon 2.

[smithdr]

Eat your heart out, Kursk. That's fantastic, Greg. My congratulations on that intimidating machine! I love it.


Dan

[georgerutherford1861]

What a beautiful airplane! Very nice work.

Doug

[rifleman]

what a great build fine b29 well done

[Isaac]

Massive build for sure. I have seen one hanging in the Polish uprising museum in Warsaw Poland years ago.



I like the olive drab colors on the B-29 better than natural metal. Looks different.

and

you have a massive workshop/work area for this project.

ultimately you may want to donate it to a museum somewhere.


Love it.


Isaac

[surfduke]

Stellar work!