I’m glad to hear there’s a kit of a B-25 with the canon in the nose. I’ve always been fascinated by bombers carrying cannons, and I’m going to start adding some to my stash. I’ll be keeping an eye out for that one. I’ll jump on the bandwagon and thank you too Stik, your knowledge about kits amazes me.
The Accurate Miniature B-25 kits have been re-issued by Academy.
Sprue Brothers has it in stock:
i bet if that 75 ever hit an enemy a/.c the results would have been devastating.
Yeah, but it would be a seriously lucky shot as well. It was a low velocity gun and the sights were for surface attack, primarily anti shipping, not an aerial gun sight.
Yes even on my Air Combat games the 75 almost never hits an aerial target.
I have never heard of a 75 mm on one of these planes! What must it have been like to be on the ground and be strafed by a 75mm and a stack of .50 cal? It must have been unimaginable!
Chris
Well, the 75 is loaded by hand, not an auto loader, so at best, perhaps 2 to 3 shots can be fired off on each pass. Package gun .50s on the fuselage sides may or may not be fitted, with photos showing them more often than not left off. But if they are fitted and the top turret is trained forward, you are talking up to ten .50 cals firing forward, plus a few 75mm shots, and whatever is in the bomb bay (at low level parafrags would be a smart option on ground targets or skip bombing for shipping). Potentially even wing mounted rockets in the late war when those were fielded… A lot to at least keep the bad guys’ heads down…
I do recall seeing footage of B-25 and A-20 strafers hitting Corregidor immediately before the 503rd parachuted in the retake the island. WWII’s equivalent of the Specter Gunship softening up a DZ for the Rangers.
The last I heard Italieri had one of the molds.
Italeri has released the basic glass nosed B-25C/D kit from Accurate under their own label. Academy has issued the Accurate B-25G under their label.
Stikpusher, is there a problem with it being an obsession and a hobby also? I have a friend that says if you are not doing something to excess, you are not trying hard enough.
John
LOL! If there is a problem with it being both, I am in big trouble!