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snugly between the fuselage

halves, and I only needed

a bit of iller in a few

areas. I was now able to add

the wing sections. The wing

assembly Airix has designed

is interesting. First step you

attach the upper side of the

wings to the braces. This

created a secure it, before the

lower section was glued in

place. Next, the landing gear

was to be glued in place, and

you need to use the nacelles

as a guide, but don’t glue

the nacelles down just yet.

There are four parts to each

nacelle, and once everything

is assembled, these simply slip

over the landing gear braces

into place. I decided that I

would leave the irewalls of

of the nacelles, in the event

that the aircraft was too tail

heavy. I temporarily mounted

the wheels, and placed the

model on a lat surface, only

to see it sink back on its tail.

So, I crammed as much lead

into the nacelles as I could and

tested this again. Now it stayed

on its nose! Masking-of the

windows was as easy as I had

hoped. I placed small strips of

Tamiya tape on the windows

and then burnished around

the frames. Then using a sharp

knife, I carefully cut each of

the sections. Cutting masks

for all the windows took me

about half an hour to complete,

and then I temporarily glued

them into place for painting.

Before painting I primed the

model, again using Army

Painter ‘Brush on Primer’.

Once I was satisied there

were no blemishes or gaps, I

began the painting process.

IN THE PINK

I had a lot of diiculty inding

accurate sources on the colours

that were used by these aircraft.

Even the colour footage I found

wasn’t the best to make a proper

decision. However, I liked the

darker and lighter contrast of

the two colours and decided

that this was how I was going

to display my B-25. I thought

perhaps this was close to an RAF

Azure Blue, but it’s quite a grey-

blue shade. So, I stared with

the underside painting it with

Tamiya XF-82 Ocean Grey and

followed this with highlighted

sections of XF-83 Medium

Sea Grey. Lastly, I added some

white to the XF-83 and lightly

painted over top the entire

surface blending all the colours

together. I was left with a nice

uniform blue-grey, that has the

subtle hint of desert weathering.

Now the upper surface was

going to be more diicult, as

The first layers of Tamiya XF-82 and 83 applied With some Flat White added to the XF-83, the colours

were blended together

The upper surface ‘apricot’ colour, XF-59 Desert Yellow

Lightly layered on, XF-15 was mixed with X-17 to produce a pinkish tone

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