Revell / Hasegawa 1/72 scale
B-25J Mitchell
by Chris Wauchop
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North American B-25J
Mitchell |
images by Brett Green
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Revell's 1/72 scale B-25J is available online from
Squadron.com
This is Revell's 1/72 scale North American B-25J Mitchell. The kit is
a re-box of Hasegawa's excellent kit.
Construction was completely straightforward with almost perfect fit
of all parts.
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A few enhancements and extras were made:
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small antenna masts rear of cockpit
were fabricated from brass wire
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ventral aerial masts under the nose
were added from brass wire
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aerial wire between these masts was
cut from a spool of cross hair wire (thanks to Al Bowie)
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the radio mast opposite was made from
scrap photo-etched brass.
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the thick kit main gear doors were
replaced with new parts cut from plasticard
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gear door straps and main gear
hydraulic lines were formed from fine wire
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flat spots were sanded onto the
bottom of the tyres
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the booting for the tail gun was
replaced with Milliput
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the ends of all gun barrels and the
pitot tube were hollowed out using a new scalpel blade
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All paint was applied with the Testor Aztek A470 airbrush fitted with
the fine tan-coloured tip.
The kit includes the markings and colour scheme used on this
aircraft. It is a bit of a shame that the wolf's head has such a
prominent black outline, and that the white outer-outline is slightly
out of register.
Paints used were Gunze Sangyo H53 Neutral Grey on the lower surfaces,
H52 Olive Drab (1) and patches of H304 Olive Drab in places.
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Panel lines were highlighted with Tamiya XF-62 Olive Drab.
The interior was painted Gunze H58 Interior Green.
Exhaust stains, gun dust etc were a 50/50 mix of Tamiya XF-1 Flat
Black and XF-64 Red Brown, thinned with 90% alcohol.
Paint chipping was done with a very sharp Prismacolour Silver Pencil.
A very thin wash of Tamiya X-18 Semi-Gloss Black was brushed around
the canopy framing.
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Kit decals were applied using Gunze Sangyo, Mr Mark Setter and Mr
Mark Softer. They performed flawlessly.
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Model and
Text Copyright © 2007 by Chris Wauchop
Images Copyright © 2007 by
Brett Green
Page Created 11 February, 2007
Last Updated 24 December, 2007
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