B-10 Fiddlers Green

**Bob Penikas** · #1 08-10-2016, 12:33 AM

Howdy Folks,

Here is a snap shot taken today of Ken Wright & Jeff Houlihan of the California March Air Force Base Museum staff
accepting my donation of the B-10 Fiddlers Green Beta build I did for Chip in 2007. The B-10 card model will be
displayed within an original B-10 turret on the museum floor.

It had been years since I visited the March AFB Museum. Someone has taken this hodgepodge repository and
whipped it into an uncluttered, organized, upscale, classy, professional, expanded experience.

This is a must see for all aviation enthusiasts and access for model reference photography.

Put the museum on your bucket list. It is worth the trip.

Bob Penikas

**willygoat** · #2 08-10-2016, 05:17 AM

It is good to see your B-10 again Bob, and great that it has been enshrined in a great museum! Congrats.

**Don Boose** · #3 08-10-2016, 07:34 AM

Glad to see that beautiful model, Bob. You certainly did a magnificent job - true museum quality.

It is great to know that the model is displayed within a part of an actual B-10.

I'd love to build this one some day, as part of a series of Martin bombers (being an old Baltimore boy who lived in the city when Martin was actually building airplanes at Middle River). One of my many unfinished and mostly un-started projects. But it was grand to see your model.

Don

**murphyaa** · #4 08-10-2016, 10:46 AM

Wow has it been that long? I can still remember looking at the real B-10 in Dayton, and Chip saying "We need a model of this".

**southwestforests** · #5 08-10-2016, 12:45 PM

That blue and yellow is an attractive livery. Is also interesting to note hue of interior green on turret framing.

**Bob Penikas** · #6 08-10-2016, 02:45 PM

Thanks guys,

Since this was a beta build, one of the needed corrections was to get
the nose number 145 and fuselage number 146 to agree prior to release.

I wonder how many visitors will notice this disagreement.

Bob Penikas