A BIG THANKS! - and my B25J

Welcome to the Forum. Very nice build of this very nice kit. A great start after a long lay-off. Hope to see more posts from you. Keep em coming.

Very nice... to the forum.

Nice one Ken, welcome to FSM
Let us see some more.

KG! Great looking Mitchell!!
And most importantly, if you were or are military. Thank YOU, for keeping our freedoms safe.

Randie

Nice work and welcome as said above. Very nice job on the B-25. NIce looking dio as well. Great to have you aboard.

welcome to fsm. well done on the build. most importantly welcome home.

joe

Welcome!

Good job! A like it!!

Welcome back. If that is your first model after 20 years than I am very impressed. What a beautiful job you have done. Can't wait to see what you do next.

Sweet B-25, The weathering is very well done. Welcome to the forums, and also a thanks from me for keeping us safe.

Nice work! Welcome to FSM.

Very nice!!

Wow! Thanks to everyone for the VERY kind comments. My B25J is my third model...my first was a generic Bradley (I know...it's tank) but it was a safe way for me to figure out this is what I wanted to do. Learned how to wash and dry brush but it is more or less out of the box.

Next I built a 1/48 F-86-J30..Not too fancy but I played more with masking and washes and coats this time.

Then came Jaunty Joe...and I had to take my time and pour lots of love into her...4 weeks and all my free time and I'm hooked! detailed the cockpits, weathering, this is great fun!!!!!!

Anyway thanks again! More will come! (going to the hobby shop today to find a new model )
--ken

WOW Ken, thanks for sharing!!! I'm truly impressed!!!! Glad to have you back home (both in the hobby, and back to the mainland!!!!)

hey KG,

Welcome to the forum and back home... I built the same plane from the Monogram line and I have to say seeing yours make me want to strap bottle rockets on the bottom of mine and use it to study theories of flight
great job, looks like Im gonna be building another Mitchel
Thanks for sharing

btw... your second post, all I see is red X's for picks

Hey Ken,
First off, WELCOME HOME...!!!!!!!!!! And second to our FSM family.
Man I love your Mitchell!! Over all appearance is great.
For your weathering, what style did you use or did you combine all methods?As for the gas truck, who makes it??
Again great build, lookin forward to more posts
Flaps up, Mike

Welcome aboard Ken and nice job! That's a fine-looking B-25 (but I'm biased; I've never seen one that didnt' look fine

Nice kite, like the weathering.

Mike,
Thanks! I used a combination of methods....I used Swanny's tips for using salt crystals for "chipped paint" but instead of dusting her with the salt I made a think salt soup that I applied with a wet brush (great site, btw Swanny!). Doesn't show real well on the picture but I did this on the canopy frames too (I used FSM's article on masking last month)...for the oil stains/gunpowder marks I first applied a very thin base of Jet Exhaust, then a thin layer of engine gray followed with a layer of dark gray pastel chalk. The wash was a 30/70 black gray and i left a really light coat of it on top of the olive drab and decals to weather it a little. I used a grey wash to weather the propellers but kept one new looking for that just replaced look. I even experimented with the yellow pastel trick on one of the panels...Really just doing what "looked" right with my reference picts and am happy with the results .
The fuel truck is also a Hasewaga kit that i bumped into at my hobby shop and thought it would make a great start for a dio. I had to make the windows and added some fuel hoses with some wire I had and need to muddy it up some. It came with some figures that I am going to setup as if "on break"...once i figure out how to paint people in 1/72d scale!
Sorry for any red "x"s...don't have my own dedicated webserver space to play with yet and it might not work for everyone. Will fix soon!
Again...THANKS to everyone!
---ken

QUOTE: Originally posted by Butz Hey Ken, First off, WELCOME HOME...!!!!!!!!!! And second to our FSM family. Man I love your Mitchell!! Over all appearance is great. For your weathering, what style did you use or did you combine all methods?As for the gas truck, who makes it?? Again great build, lookin forward to more posts Flaps up, Mike

kghaynes;
What else have you done?
Steve

Hi Steve,
I've only done that Academy 1/35 M2 (took me a few days) that Academy 1/48th F-86 (about a week) and the 1/72 Hasewaga B25...four weeks consuming all my free time (even lunch!)....so it only been since mid-feb that I've been modeling. That's not counting my shortlived childhood slapped together models. Just been applying lessons learned from the board and FSM progressively on each one and it has worked out fantastic! I have YOU ALL TO THANK! THANK THANK THANK YOU! This is GREAT fun. I really do hope to repay the board with future posts and hopefully kindle the modeller spirit in others.
---ken

QUOTE: Originally posted by st_gorder kghaynes; What else have you done? Steve

Great job. I assume it is a 1:48 plane and a 1:72 truck, is that true? Look good if it is out of scale. Do we have choices however in 1:48 armor and so forth?

Hi! Thanks!!
Both are 1/72nd scale. I was lucky when i ran across the truck...it's a 5ton truck so it looks large...about 1/3 bigger than a 2.5ton would. I haven't seen many 1/48th trucks and tanks but there some out there.
--ken

QUOTE: Originally posted by nsclcctl Great job. I assume it is a 1:48 plane and a 1:72 truck, is that true? Look good if it is out of scale. Do we have choices however in 1:48 armor and so forth?

If I could make one suggestion... you've done a beautiful job weathering the Mitchell but your fuel truck looks fresh off the assembly line?

that looks excellent my friend. keep up the good work!! ill be looking for some more now. later.