Let me know what you think, its going to be big.

I am going to get a big sheet of wood. Cut it in half. Then, I am going to make a runway on both, and on one a B-29 will be parked waiting to get loaded with bombs, and on the other there will be one crashed. I have both the bombers.

So when I put the two together, it will look like one huge dio with a crashed one a little ways down the runway from the parked one. Let me know what you think of this idea.

~Chip

Ambitious but go for it. I think it will be a hit er bad pun! Are you think a before and after or a looming sense of impending doom?

BIG! Hey, go for big, and put another notch in your belt. To quote Walter Disney: "If's kinda fun to do the impossible." Go for it! Thanks for your time.

(Oh, by the way, what are the scales of the B-29's?)

Yea - what scale?

It sounds intriguing and like a visual marvel.
If you are trying to model a true to life situation I don't know if they would leave a bomber on the runway for very long. Don't missunderstand my comment, I am not trying to down play the idea, I think its pretty cool and is a cool use of one piece of runway. Just bringing to light that a it may not be historically accurate, which is ok by me.

The size will be large, even at 1/72 the wing span will surely reach 12" (maybe more). Two of these will be big. You could add some rescue type trucks near the downed one.

Hi there Chip

That would look awesome if you could pull it off!

Bear in mind what Scott says - this would be a huge diorama; the distance between a bomber lining up for take-off and one which failed to lift off could be a 1/2 mile...

How about something a bit less "spectacular" like an u/c faiure on the taxi-way; the aircraft would be bunched together and any problem could cause total choas...

Hope this helps

Rowan

Well the scale would be 1/48. I know its big, but I am sure someone will like the big scale because they can't see the little scale.

~Chio

Chip you're making me jealous!

I've had Monogram's 1/48 scale on the shelf for years and I simply havent got room to build it, let alone think of a diorama!

LOL!! Sometimes, I really hate living in a small flat...

All the best

Rowan

sounds cool, but keep in mind they would not be loading up one to take off if the runway is obstructed by a downed plane.

ahh, scrunge, good man. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. Well I guess they will have to be doing something else to it, perhaps maintnance.

Thanks

~Chip

Yikes! I'd built a 1/48 B-29 many years ago and had to hang it on the wall, as though parked on it, in order to display it. Huge! You could put it under glass as a coffee table, though. Good building!

The hardest thing to pull of is to kind of fill the areas around the wings, because with such a few figures as just the crew it will look empty.

Not necessarily. The wind could have changed direction, you'd take off in the wrong direction, a gust of wind knocks you off the runway (not very probable but heh), etc. As for the first pont, the wind could have changed, therefore, you take off from the opposite side. Also, if you take off in the wind, you land in the wind. He could've crashed on landing!