1/32 Xtreme Wings B-25!
Posted: 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
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
Please post more pics of the completed project!
