Yearly Archives: 2012

1/32 HK Models B-25J Mitchell – Part IV – Finish Out

Part I | Part II | Part III | PART IV

The end is in sight! It’s amazing to think I first started this kit more than five months ago…and that it’s been back on the bench for more than two.

So far, it’s been BUILT, PAINTED, and MARKED. Now comes the home stretch of weathering and seeing to all those final details. Here we go! (more…)

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1/32 HK Models B-25J Mitchell – Part III – Markings

Part I | Part II | PART III | Part IV

In Part I it was built. In Part II, it was painted. Now, it’s time to give the B-25 its proper markings.

The B-25 I’m building is “Bottoms Up II” of the 340th Bomb Group. There aren’t very many markings out there (yet) for the 1/32 B-25, but thankfully “Bottoms Up II” is available from KitsWorld. As is a desperately needed B-25 stencil set.

In addition to the KitsWorld decals, I’ve also decided to employ Maketar‘s paint masks for the national insignias and the tail codes. On telling Alek at Maketar about the circumstances of this build, he modified his B-25J set with the proper tail codes for “Bottoms Up II” and sent me the set gratis. Thanks, Alek! (more…)

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1/32 HK Models B-25J Mitchell – Part I – Assembly

PART I | Part II | Part III | Part IV

Rather than the usual breakdown of Cockpit, Assembly, Painting and so on, I’ve decided to break out the HK B-25 build chronologically. In part because it’s a restart, and in part because there’s so much going on with it, and with the various subassemblies, that it’d be torturous to jump back and forth between all those build logs. To the build, then… (more…)

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