leoasman

Yes, I did. But I didn’t fool around with it much. I literally followed exactly what you did to make it work!

Last update until completion. I still need to string the aerial, add the props and windows and get the base ready.

I have a hard time taking good detail pictures, but here are my weathering efforts so far. I’ve been playing with oils and water color pencils.

So cool! I love it!

Getting closer!

Too late on the cowlings…. I didn’t intend to convert them myself and they were already done by the time the J version was announced. So it will have to be somewhat inaccurate. I am planning on doing the wheel covers for sure and I’ve got the ICM photo scene figure kit inbound to try recreating this scene.

Making progress…

So, according to my research. Queen Julia belonged to a squadron that used blue cowl paint. I’ve never seen this represented, but in the picture above, you can clearly see there’s a color around the front of the cowl. I plan to paint the fronts blue, but I’m wondering if you guys think that the spinners were also the same color?

Wow! Very cool! What did you use for the fasteners? Great job!

Its going to be the post d-day yellow nosed “Borrowed Time”

I started this one several years ago. I got frustrated with the PE intakes along with the landing gear. I had originally intended to show it in a post take off look with the landing gear retracting. However, I found some video evidence showing that the nose wheel retracts first and then the main gear came up together, which kind of killed the vibe. However, when I started the A-20 but stopped to wait to for the Brassin wheel set and AM gun-barrels, I realized I had the other big twin waiting to be finished. So here we are. BTW, it’s huge!

Getting ready to button up the fuselage. There are several little bits that can make this difficult! In the step below, note that the cockpit and bomb bay go in at the same time. This is important because the little air bottle on the back of the nose wheel well will keep you from putting them in separately. It’s a bit tricky, but I had to hold them together and slide it in to place as a single unit. Then add the walkway as that can also hang up the bomb bay from sliding in easily. Also, I taped some foam to the side of the fuselage to keep it from rolling onto the nose gear. It can break easily as we’ve seen!

This is a very nice kit in my opinion. The only difficulty I’ve encountered is of my own making. The tolerances are very tight on the interior pieces. So when I super glued the weights in without thinking, the glue blob messed up the cockpit fit. Likewise with the bomb bay. If the pieces are not very tightly joined it will cause problems with the halves coming together. I had to sand the outside edges to get a good fit after I failed to notice the sidewalls were not 100% seated. Also I broke part of the nose gear pushing the sidewall pieces together trying to get everything in place. I’ve recovered, but frustrating. And as I’ve said it’s all my fault.

Really looks amazing! Does the turret have to go in prior to putting the fuselage sides together, or can you drop it in later. I haven’t got that far.

Major interior painting done. I tried to keep in mind how little of my B-25 interior is visible and really only focus on the cockpit area.

Got the major construction done. Mostly a good fit, but I used some sprue stubs for exhaust as the kit exhausts are tiny and very fiddly.

Following in ChuckDs footsteps, I’ll be staying one step behind to ensure proper fit! I couldn’t help working on the ip. I decided to thin down the panel, drill out the holes and use the decal from behind. I cut out a couple of the placards and added them to the front of the panel as well.

Trying to be efficient and not get bogged down by the older design of the kit. Fuselage is together and I started working on the wings. The gun bay covers are glued and I think I’ve decided to use some extra .50 cal barrels I had rather than the kit guns which have no detail. Also, I’m leaning towards glueing the top wings to the fuselage first, then mount the bottom piece. I think I’ll get a stronger and cleaner bond, plus I should help set the wing dihedral.