Boeing B-29 AEW Silvertown

[McColm]

 Three B-29s were modified into AEW testbeds for the USAF development program which similar to the Boeing PB-1W with the AN/APS-20S search radar fitted to the upper fuselage. Which led to the Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star.
RHVP does the PB-1W in a 1/72 conversion set so the B-29 AEW can be built using it.

The Chinese modified a gifted reversed-engineered B-29 (Tu-4) from the Soviet Union, creating the Kong Jiang-1.
There is a 1/72 conversion set available for such a build, the old Airfix B-29 kit or the Academy KB-29P are very good donors.

Many years ago I built my own version of the KJ-1 in 1/72 scale. I no longer have the model.

I based the Boeing Silvertown ACI on the Boeing PB-1W and the Air Staff 1945 proposal to fit a Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter with three separate antenna to act as a AWI platform. (Freightdog does the 1/144 conversion set). A forth set could be fitted in the tail for the original fore-and-aft scanner system FASS.
I'm using the 1/72 Academy Boeing KB-29P model with parts from the Revell B-17G, various radomes from different Avro Shackleton AEW2 kits were used for the GB build.
 As I like to recycle my builds I decided that the Silvertown ACI should be a turboprop with the Grumman E-2C Hawkeye rotodome. Keeping the modified cockpit, nose cone and resin radome in the rear bomb bay. The tail wheels will remain.