This is the ancient Revell B-25, which I built years ago, well before the Accurate Miniatures version was available. The kit has raised panel lines, and the surfaces are covered with rivets. Interior detail is very limited; the fit is actually not bad, except for the bomb-bay doors. The guns are way over-sized. The greenhouse nose clear part is about 3" thick in scale. Still, I saw one built way back and it looked good, so I attempted one.

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Interior parts, guns, propellers, and landing gear were replaced from a Monogram B25 J to improve these weak parts of the kit. The markings are kind of a generic composite taken from pictures of different aircraft found in books. Left over decals were used, along with some press-on letters. I spent some time sanding and repolishing the greenhouse nose part to improve its clarity. Canopy framing is painted bare metal foil.

The pictures were taken with an Olympus C4000 digital camera. The more I use this camera, the better the results get. F stop was manually set to F11, which is the highest value on the camera. Pictures were taken indoors with flash and a tripod.

Chaz Nims

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