1977 Revell B-25J Mitchell

[Damonkh]

Well now. My first build post. It's been too long away from the bench, but I finally made it back. A year ago I tried to get back and all hell broke loose. Nothing I need get into. Suffice to say I left this thing literally sitting on the workbench.

Over the last couple of months I spent getting things moved out of the house and into the shed as my little slice of man cave.

I had this kit in my stash and my step son loves WW II planes so I thought I'd build it for his birthday. Well I still have time to build it for his birthday this year and I WILL complete it this time around.

Enough... here goes. I am open to critic good bad or indifferent. I am really rusty though so keep that in mind.



This is how I left it a year ago.


A little more work done with the bomb bay dry fitted.


Here's the cockpit. Any suggestions on how to make seat belts w/o purchasing photo etc?




Cockpit dry fitted to see what I will see after inside


These older Revell molds always gave me trouble with seams and I need to get some sprue cutters. I am used to side cutters and I have a "flush cutter" but, it's not designed for sprue cutting.



Ahh yes so many gaps in the seams on this kit. I spent a long time working with these.




Oh boy almost ready for the primer. I will have some final sanding to do on the wings, but the fiddly bits are ready for the primary then some detail work. Then attaching


Now I will be doing these updates about this time each week as I can only get to the bench on the weekends as my bench is at our weekender in the mountains. I much prefer it there than down here in the city. Besides I work long hours and am too tired most nights to do much more than eat, read a little bit then hit the sack.

Anyway, I am off and running!!!!

Oh yeah almost forgot. These older models have RAISED panel lines. A real bitch when it comes to sanding etc. I usually didn't worry about them or just sanded them all off as I was not sure what else to do. Any suggestions would be welcome.

[Elve1984]

Hmm some how the pics don't work here.

[Damonkh]

Really? I see them just fine... are you at least seeing the links?

[Willem]

Off to a good start. For seatbelts you could use strips of masking tape or the lead foil that covers the cork on a bottle of wine (good excuse to have a glass or two).

[Damonkh]

I will have to try the masking tape method as I do not drink stupid meds prevent that.

[Elve1984]

Now i can see them, maybe something with my connection or browser. Looks great so far.

[Damonkh]

Thanks. I'm going to try and make some belts this weekend. Hoping to get my primer in today as well. May even hit the model shop and get some more paints.

[Backfire22]

off to a good start. I like it.

[Damonkh]

More pics to come. Been real busy with that bloody thing called work. Hopefully tonight or tomorrow night. I did get the primer on though and finally got the paints for the camo. Wheeee

[Lysus]

Hah, I remember this kit. You're doing a great job with it, hope work calms down for you soon

[Kevthemodeller]

I've still got one of these (Airfix) in a box somewhere must be 20 odd years old and a B17.

[Damonkh]

Update. I know it's been a good couple of weeks, but I do have a small update.
I spent most of the weekend last time sanding and masking. I did the initial primer coat.
This weekend I am looking to get the camo on and possibly decals.

I did use Styrlez (sp?) primer for the first time with this. I had to crank up to 50psi and thin it out quite a bit. I recently got a proper hose and maybe I might have an air leak. I will be looking at that this weekend. Hopefully I won't have to thin anymore out and not run so high on the psi in the future.

Building this though has reminded me why I love modeling so much. Two full days of solitude without worrying about anyone getting on me about anything. I love this hobby so much. It's one hobby where what you do is good enough if it makes you happy.

One thing to mention though is I used TET for the first time. I normally use Tenax-7R. The only difference between the two that I can see is that TET comes in a square bottle and has a brush. I will continue using it until it is gone before I make up my mind which to use as my primary go to.