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HK Model B-25J Backdated to a B-25C/D, Fingers Crossed


patricksparks

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Thanks for the very informative description there Patrick! That makes it sound pretty straight forward. How did you go locating the windows on the sides? They look spot on from the photos :)

 

Cheers,

 

Craig

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Thanks to a fellow LSP'er, I was made aware that the vertical stabalizers need to be moved up 3/16" , I plan to cut the mounting portion of the stabs with the fillets out carefully , move them down 3/16" and fill above, I will have to move the raised panel on the outside of the stabs as well and move the one slot in the rudders. 

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A little more progress, figured I should start work on the interior so that I will be able to close up the fuselage at some point down the road. I'm trying not to "over" detail as most of the rear fuselage interior won't be visible due to the small windows of the early models. One note, I have to wonder how the kit manufacturers always leave out the armored door/bulkhead that is directly behind the upper turret on the early model B-25s ??? I have photos that clearly show it. The black object on the port fuselage half is the life raft receptical. I also opened the top of the kit's rear bomb bay bulkhead where the crawl space to the foward cabin is located on top of the bomb bay. [/url]">http://https://postimg.org/image/s5sh3elyl/'>002.jpg

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Was it the same turret or will you be making changes to that ?

 

And the lower turret ? Extended or retracted ?

 

Exciting !!

I found that the kit turret is actually the right shape looking at photos of the real thing. The only modification I'm going to make is to polish out the multiple seam lines that were on the later turrets, the early C/D models only had the one glue joint going across the center left to right and some internal reinforcement strips glued on each side of the barrel ports internally. I will also have to put the opening in the front of the turret where the gun sight slightly protruded, early C/Ds had a different type of sight that didn't move with elevation, it had an internal mirror that moved up and down where as the gunners head didn't have to tilt back and forth as the guns were elevated and lowered. The lower turret I will have to make, I will probably leave it retracted as I preffer the look of the slightly exposed portion for some odd reason ??? [/url]">http://026b25.jpg

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Tail planes rework success, I was able to cut out the recepticals in the vertical stabs that the horizontal stab plugs into. To my suprise I realized the the sockets are symetrical, so I was able to cut them out with the 3/16" off -set and simply swap them out left to right. Now I just have to reproduce the blank out cover and rudder hinge point on the outside of the stabilizer.">http://pZhAQBq.jpg

 

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