1/32 Xtreme Wings B-25!

Coreyeagle48 · Post by **Coreyeagle48** » Mon May 01, 2006 9:29 pm

Hi Guys,

I have been working on this for awhile now. I picked up an old gas powered and junked Aurora B-25 on evilbay sometime ago and decided to customize it into a standard 1/32 scale B-25. I hope to post a detailed build photographs on my webshots account in the near future. However, I can tell you the original plane had severe nose damage, was missing the top turret, no decals and had rusting landing gear.

I kept as much of the original plane as possible. It was an old screw together kit so that was simple. I took the plane apart and sprayed it. I added 50 calibar machine guns in all positions using cut down guns from corps figures because they were cheap to find. The plane is fully crewed, I used 1/32 scale pilots from the XW aircraft for them. No bombs in the bomb bay because the wing is in the way on the inside.

The original airplane was a solid nose model, but I wanted the glass nose. Using the gulliows kit, I was able to piece together the glass nose and make it fit. It's not 100 percent accurate, as the Guillows B-25 is slightly larger despite the fact these two planes should be the same scale. The nose was made by using the clear canopy from the kit, then a piece of cardboard as a rib form, then a piece of plastic on the outside. It came out pretty darn good I must say. I then added the front landing piece from the Guillows kit as well as the top turret. Propellors, the original plane came with none, are from two Revell 1/32 scale Corsairs. The plane is colored similar to Briefing Time, the plane based right here at home in Reading. The whole project took about a month for major building.

I still have to work on the tail, wasn't happy with the original spray job I did and do the decals and the small details. But it is mostly finished and I wanted to share this thing with all of you. A neat piece to add to my collection. Wingspan is about 25 inches.

http://img451.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 0311df.jpg

krieglok · Post by **krieglok** » Tue May 02, 2006 12:07 am

Nice work. It it looks pretty flawless to me. Please do post more pics when you arrive at the end result. I recall having a gas powered P40 when I was a kid. Never got the thing to work...

TJ

Razor17019 · Post by **Razor17019** » Tue May 02, 2006 5:59 am

WOW! What a cool looking plane! GREAT work!
Thanks for showing us the pics!

KAMIKAZE · Post by **KAMIKAZE** » Tue May 02, 2006 8:18 am

Very cool!

Mark

INTREPER · Post by **INTREPER** » Tue May 02, 2006 2:39 pm

Excellent work. Almost looks 1/18

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Tue May 02, 2006 4:02 pm

That's some wonderful work! When you're done, I imagine it will look nearly as good as if 21c made it

Please post more pics of the completed project!

Coreyeagle48 · Post by **Coreyeagle48** » Tue May 02, 2006 6:55 pm

Thanks for the comments.

This what the airplane looked like before I started work. Mostly intact, but there was a big melted section of the nose, missing the top turret, decals gone, rusty gear, the works

http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bc1b7oh.jpg

easy8 · Post by **easy8** » Wed May 03, 2006 7:15 am

Corey,

Nice job man! That looks great, can't wait to see it with the final touches applied!

easy8

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1/32 Xtreme Wings B-25!

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