With it's unique combination of six 28-cylinder piston and four jet engines ("six turning and four burning"), it could carry a payload of up to 86,000 lb (39,000 kg) to targets 3,400 miles (5,500 km) away and stay aloft for up to 40 hours without refueling. In combination with it's power plants, the B-36's massive wing area also gave it a phenomenal cruising altitude of over 40,000 feet which was out of the range of most interceptors of the day. The B-36 was HUGE, in fact the largest mass-produced piston engine aircraft ever made, with the longest wingspan of any combat aircraft ever built (230 ft, 70.1m). Operated solely by the United States Air Force from 1949 to 1959, it was gradually replaced by the B-52 beginning in 1955.

With a wingspan of over 3-7/8", the size of the B-36 model is impressive even in 1/700 scale, the largest model we've produced to date. Check out the well proportioned model including the detailed canopy, the glazed nose, the wings with 6 turbo prop engines and the two jet pods, the turrets and that massive tail!

Although the surfaces are not perfectly smooth (3D printing is done in layers), the plastic used can be sanded and painted much the same way you would handle resin or styrene. The landing gear is represented in its retracted, in-flight position but it should be fairly straight forward to add photo etch parts for a "gear down" rendition, perfect for an early 1950's SAC air base diorama.

While we currently maintain limited inventories of most items, some items may be "printed on demand", which usually requires 10-15 business days from order to shipment.