DONE: A-20G Havoc, RAAF No.22 Squadron, Kamiri 1944 Group Build

Ad: This forum contains affiliate links to products on Amazon and eBay. More information in Terms and rules

Cheers fellas!

Sorry I haven't been around for a while. I rang that company in the UK, no joy. BUT, I was in the LHS yesterday and was talking to one of the lads working there, he had an Italeri 1/48 Havoc in a large cardboard box that was going to another branch, he opened it up and whipped out the clear sprue and gave it to me. He said he'd return the kit to the distributer saying it was missing, result! Well after that I couldn't leave without buying anything, so I got an Italeri 1/48 B-25, so I've another bomber in the stash! 8)
 
Cheers lads, I got the canopy masked last night. I took my time with it this time around, so hopefully it'll turn out better.

Peter, I'm a bit like Wayne Rooney, I have a thing for ugly old birds
 
I think the B-25 is a beaut Dan, and the kit is lovely, lots of interior detail, not that you see any of it when it's closed up. I'm leaning towards building it as B-25C-15 "Poon Tang", 488th BS, 340th BG, USAAF, Sicily 1943.


(Pic - Wings Palette)
 
Look here.

I did say they were an ugly second cousin to the Boston, but I'm not the only one that thinks so. Here look at this picture. Even the Fifth Bomb Group thought so. See they have tried to disguise it's ugliness by taking off that drab camo and brightening it up a bit with a nice civvy scheme.

Did it work? No. Ugly. 8)

Of course they could be making it as innocuous as possible to slip past those nasty zeros.

(No offence intended - they were and are great planes, and I've got one lined up for the Bomber Build - a B-25 that is)
 

Attachments

  • bomber barons airliner resized.jpg
    71.2 KB · Views: 177
Last edited:
Cool pic Peter! You've given me an idea. I could build the B-25 with 1940's Aer Lingus livery!



Had a bit of an issue with the new canopy piece, it's slightly warped. I tried putting it boiling water to straighten it, didn't work. So I masked it anyway and painted the interior green inside. I stuck it on in one place with CA. Here's how it looks.

No too bad, right?



WRONG!



I left it for a while and then glued the rest down and taped it. I'm waiting for that to dry then will fill in at the fuselage with Terry's patented Klear Talc Filler© .

You can see at the rear of the liferaft, the cockpit section has dropped and there's a gap. I've filled that in with CA, will touch up with interior green and see how it looks.

She's nearly finished.
 
Ugly never except maybe feeling the rath of her fire power. Muller if you want to do a C model and if you find or make decals you may find Desert Warrior a very interesting aircraft with an intesting history.
 

Attachments

  • 1.JPG
    196.4 KB · Views: 167
  • 2.JPG
    146.3 KB · Views: 166
Had a look for those decals Micdrow, not available, but there are a fair few good sheets available for other birds, lots of cool nose-art! 8)
 
muller said:
Had a look for those decals Micdrow, not available, but there are a fair few good sheets available for other birds, lots of cool nose-art! 8)
Click to expand...

I cant disagree, the B-25 had some way cool art work not only on the nose but some units did the tail up as well.
 
Micdrow said:
Ugly never except maybe feeling the rath of her fire power. Muller if you want to do a C model and if you find or make decals you may find Desert Warrior a very interesting aircraft with an intesting history.
Click to expand...

Nice bird
 
Back to the A-20, pretty much finished. Here she is, will take some finished pics tomorrow (weather permitting, thundery downpours forecast here).



On to an armour build next!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 1 (members: 0, guests: 1)

Similar threads

  • Sticky
***** FINISHED: Nakajima A6M2-N "Rufe" of the Yokohama Kokutai - Group Build
Replies
18
Views
8K
Rogi
R
  • Sticky
****Finished A-20G Havoc, RAAF No.22 Squadron, Kamiri 1944 Group Build
Replies
16
Views
8K
Wayne Little
DONE: Spitfire MkVc "Marge" No.85 Sqn RAAF, Group Build
5 6 7
Replies
133
Views
17K
Wayne Little
DONE: B-17E, 11th Bomb Group, PTO Group Build
3 4 5
Replies
93
Views
18K
vikingBerserker
Avenger II, 857 Squadron, FAA, HMS Indomitable, December 1944, Group Build.
18 19 20
Replies
399
Views
53K
Airframes
Menu
Log in
Register