I have been working on several models at once, lately, trying to clear up a backlog of slow projects. This one was started maybe 3 years ago and was a challenge. I was not happy with the kit’s nose glass so I adapted the nose glass from a Monogram B-25H kit and that was an adventure. Everything is very scale and rather fiddly. Fits were generally good but not always and some alignments could be better defined. I added ignition wires to the engines and did not use the kit harness, it looked way too heavy to me. The cowlings were another quest that I do not feel that I really met with complete success. I bought some resin replacements and they were a bit of an improvement I thought, but not that much. I was able to get close by increasing the openings on the kit cowls, but after I had them installed it became apparent to me that part of the cowling issue is that there should be a radius on the inside that could only be achieved by filling the inside nose of the cowls and sanding in that curve, Next time I will do better.
I weathered the model with SNJ aluminum powder and oil paints via the dot filter method, Paynes Grey used for the most part but also some yellows and whites. I also used Tamiya Smoke for oil and exhaust staining. I made the decals with an ALPS printer and Corel Draw.
Now on to that Williams Brothers C-46 that has been almost done for more years than I can remember.
That’s a good lookin plane right there! How was that build anyways? I remember seeing those kits when they first came out thinking that they had to be all that…and a bag of party mix.
Thanks, everyone, for the nice comments. Mustang 1989, it is definitely a kit that takes a lot of study and planning. A lot of the parts are thin and can lose their shape and since there are many sub assemblies, that can lead to problems. It shouldn’t take 3 years to build one but you can’t approach it with a sense of hurry.
Damn nice looking B-25 Jeanton. I plan on doing one of these from the Doolittle Raid as well one day. Glad to hear about your troubleshooting. Always a welcome thing to see. Do you have any pictures of the interior? And do you have a preference on decal sheets when printing your own??
John, you have one pretty bird there. You have given me inspiration for my next project which will include 16 B-25Bs in 1:350 scale plus a 1:48 AM version.
Bvallot, I use Tango Papa decal paper and it has always worked well for me using my ALPS MD-1000 and a Dell 1250C color laser printer (led type system). I did not take as many wip pictures as usual on this one, but here are a couple of the fuselage interior.
