Also, Bomber World has gotten complicated.
Another good friend of mine built the same 144" DS B-29. It flew really well, but suffered a crooked premature takeoff its third flight: smashed a wing up pretty badly. Rich was about to move to Texas anyway, so he sold the wreck (and motors and gear) to Dwayne at a bargain. Dwayne, typically, partially disassembled the wing, determined its basic structure and alignment to meet his standards, and re-built it, including re-building all the nacelles. He plans to finish and paint it at the same time as his bird from this thread (I mean, afterall, the spray gun has to be set up and cleaned up only once for two planes, right?), maybe not to the exacting level of scale and finish as HIS baby, but certainly beyond my ability.
So, next spring we have the possibility of TWO maiden B-29 flights! What is he gonna do with all those bombers??
Here's the 2nd wing waiting
"in the wings"