Modelers, I’m looking for profiles of B-25C/D for my next build. I did find an interesting scheme I’d like to do, but can’t pair it with any photos of the actual aircraft. The profile is devoid of markings, only the scheme itself.
Anything out there anyone would be willing to share?
Thanks.
I’m in the same stage as you are, can’t find any decent pics. Although I have a ton of pages bookmarked for viewing, I can only tell you what I did, go to Google and search B25 Mitchell, there is tons of stuff out there, just getting what you need will take time.HTH
Robert
I have several good pics I took of the Mitchell at Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston. It’s a flying bird and has a beautiful scheme. I can email what I’ve got to you if you’d like me to. I don’t have an awful lot, but I do have 4 or 5 pretty good shots. Let me know if those would help at all.
Not sure which are C or D or any of the other letters, but lots of pics here.
http://www.photovault.com/Link/Military/AirForce/Aircraft/B-25Mitchell.html
Robert
How 'bout this one?
Actually, here’s what I had in mind:
I can’t seem to find much on photos of an actual aircraft that used this scheme.
Wow! That’s a wild one, Quagmyre!
Dana, that one you have was close to home for you. It looks to be in the anti-sub scheme for the mid-Atlantic coast (as opposed to the Navy’s also attractive scheme of gull gray over white for Atlantic fleet a/c). But the scheme you have there is the blank pattern for the box top scheme on AcMin’s B-25G.
Look up the Albatros decal sheet on Google and check out the fine schemes they have that go with that outstanding piece of decal art, up to their usual very high standard. There are a couple of C/D models on that decal set. It’s out of print, but can still be got. I was sent one, but was disappointed that it was in 1/72 and of course I needed the 1/48 scale version.
There are a number of nice C/D profiles (the only difference between C and D is where the planes were assembled, just like on the other North American products, the Mustang B and C) to be found in the Squadron Signal “B-25 Walk Around,” but be careful, as it has a number of editing mistakes in which captions misidentify which version of the Mitchell is being shown. There is a commonly printed photo of the instrument panel of the “Doolittle Raider” instrument panel in the AF Museum collection, but it is in fact a C/D posing as a B-25B, so when looking for references for your cockpit, you can find that fine closeup of the C/D panel correctly identified in the “Detail and Scale Book,” which also has some nice color photos of the C/D.
I’ve said this before, but AcMin has announced that it’s B-25C/D kit is out of production, and who knows for how long, or if AcMin is going to survive this time, so snatch them up anywhere you can, especially if you can get one on sale.
Quag, yours looks like one of the schemes out of the wonderful old “Flying Colors” book published by Salamander and distributed here by Squadron a zillion years ago. I happened to score a hardbound one a couple of years ago and I wouldn’t trade it for the world, after losing my dogeared, 15-year-old copy to my fire.
TOM