**** DONE: GB-52 1:72 North American B-25J Mitchell - Heavy Hitters IV

[Crimea_River]

Liking that. I assume the white metal parts will be enough to stop a squat.

 

[Totalize]

Liking that. I assume the white metal parts will be enough to stop a squat.

I hope so. That's the idea anyway. The nose landing gear and tire is white metal too.

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far!

 

[Totalize]

PE done on sides of cockpit and rear and waist MG's completed. On the waist MG's I cut off the existing kit MG's and put on resin barrels. Also added the cross hairs iron sights for the waist MG's which was part of the PE set that came with the kit. The fuselage is now ready to be glued together.

The front entry hatch gave me fits so I am leaving that off until after I glue the fuselage together.

 

[fubar57]

Cool. I still can't fathom 1:72 PE

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Fine work. Dave, if there is any way you can delay installing those waist MG's until well after the fuselage is glued together then I'd suggest you do that. They WILL be knocked off otherwise.

 

[Totalize]

Fine work. Dave, if there is any way you can delay installing those waist MG's until well after the fuselage is glued together then I'd suggest you do that. They WILL be knocked off otherwise.

I hear ya Andy. I am going to leave them off. Thanks for that. I did have to glue in the rear MG's and they got bent to rat Sh!t during the gluing of the fuselage. They are the kit MG's so I might just cut them off and install the resin ones.

 

[Totalize]

Cool. I still can't fathom 1:72 PE

Me to Geo. I don't see msyelf being able to work with this stuff at this scale when I retire. The lack of a steady hand and eyesight might not be there.

 

[Gnomey]

Nicely done so far!

 

[rochie]

very nice

 

[Totalize]

Eduard had me put the iron sites on the .50's nearer to the barrel. Looking at various photos these were closer to the butterfly trigger and grips.

 

[Wayne Little]

Good work Dave.

 

[Totalize]

Thanks guys. I have the fuselage together and have primed and prepped the surfaces in anticipation of an all natural all finish. It's curing at the moment. I don't believe I mentioned what a/c I would be doing but at this point I am all in on the box cover B-25J Angel of Mercy. I will post an update later today.

 

[Totalize]

So, doing Angel of Mercy this aircraft did not have Port Side MG's but instead had a panel for the bombardier which I believe allowed him to take control of the aircraft on the final bomb run and line up the shot in conjunction with the Norden bombsight? At any rate there is no option to add this control panel to the port side so I started scratch building what I hope will be a decent representation of this panel.

Also, the white metal add-on I got had a seat and floor for this area which is not suppose to go here so, I sawed off the seat which left a hole in the floor. I ground it down to a relatively flat surface with my Dremel and added a piece of styrene sheet overlay. Thinking I really, really don't want a tail sitter, I sawed off the back of the metal seat, glued it to the bottom of the nose tub and then glued the floor over top that. I still have the white metal floor in the nose but also now have the seat back for extra weight.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Wayda cure that tailsitterphobia.

 

[Totalize]

Wayda cure that tailsitterphobia.

 

[Totalize]

Update. Fuselage ready for first coat of aluminum paint. After priming I used a gloss coat consisting of Mr. Color GX Gloss Black, Mr. Color GX Super Clear Gloss and Tamiya white.

 

[Totalize]

Additional work completed.

Engines. The PE ignition wires required the patience of a saint to get on. I didn't add push rods for the engines or wiring harness. Pushrods I think wouldn't really be seen with the ignition wires but I might add the wiring harness if I think I can this one in under the wire.

Wings.

Vertical stabs

Landing gear. Added some copper wire for struts. The landing gear is white metal.

Landing grear complete. The tires are from Eduard's Brassin line. and are very nice. They came with the kit.