Hello Again,
I’ve just got back from two weeks away for work, and I’ve got three weeks before I’m off again. Before I have a go at weathering the Whirlwind, I am going to have a go at the old B25 which I bought as a bagged kit on EBay. According to Scalemates, the tooling is from 1965. Here’s what I have got:
At first sight, it looks like a straightforward kit. I expected to do some work on the engine exhausts (the right hand one is done):
Someone at Airfix had a commendable shot at detailing the inside of the bomb doors, sadly negated by ejector pins:
I’ve had an enjoyable morning cutting parts off sprues and sticking them together:
As I have progressed, I’ve become less enamoured with this kit, or at least the instance I have got. I don’t know if an earlier moulding would have been sharper or better fitting. The bomb and undercarriage doors don’t remotely fit, the wing roots needed trimming to avoid outer span anhedral and the transparencies fit poorly. I’m going to get everything together and then slather it with Milliput.
Thanks for looking,
Adrian