Fred Flintstones B29 bomber

[MSea]

Wheel wells opened out with the side sections removed. The wheel supports now made in mahogany and the wheels from a section of broom handle. First thought was to make the wheels in hard sponge rubber but then realized, with the weight of the plane it would just squash them, so wood  and some paste to make them look like stone.

[MSea]

Tail plane now operates on pivot - some cleaning up to do and operation ropes to fit when the skins are added to the surface.

[Haddock]

The mind boggles!
Haddock.

[MSea]

The plastic modern props removed from the hub and wood ones made. Small holes drilled in one end for the brass connecting rods and the other end rounded.
Each of the 4 engines are 100 HP - before Haddock tells me that no internal combustion engines in the stone age - they are 100 hamster power - each engine has 100 hamsters working like heck in hamster wheels fastened to the props

[MSea]

Props finished just a little cleaning up to do and some colour on the prop hub.

[MSea]

Most of the frames added to the port wing top.

[MSea]

Finished the frames on the port wing and tissue paper added.
When dry will get this painted to look like skins, might add some green for dinosaur skins on this one, now what colour are they, will have to ask Neil he was around when they roamed the earth so he should know - hohoho

[Bigkev]

Hi Msea,
Looking very prehistoric, I know that will be like no other B-29 like it.
Question is did they call it a B-29, I understand Neanderthal man , made sounds more like grunts than speech, (and No, I wasn't around at the time) could it be a Urrgh-po-whee yaar.
Or is that 'Klingon'
Bigkev

[MSea]

I was thinking more like a "Yaba Daba 29 Beeee" but you all know the state of my mind !!!!!

[zak]

Hi Msea,
Looking very prehistoric, I know that will be like no other B-29 like it.
Question is did they call it a B-29, I understand Neanderthal man , made sounds more like grunts than speech, (and No, I wasn't around at the time) could it be a Urrgh-po-whee yaar.
Or is that 'Klingon'
Bigkev

How about Bfornine - as it was the first and before the others?

[MSea]

Its good to get back to just modelling and general insults - instead of sorting out problems.
Just remembered I have to put the weight and running bar on top of the wing before painting it.

[MSea]

The wing now looks like the inside of my head.

[MSea]

Now Zak will say both the inside of my head and the photo is empty - its not just forgot to add the photo -- think its time for a coffffeeeeee

[Haddock]

Definitely the result of too many magic mushrooms.
Looks like something from Woodstock.
Haddock.

[MSea]

Just wait till ALL the plane looks like this.