I was lucky enough to see a B-25 in flight at Little Rock AFB last year. Amazing planes. They also did a re-enactment of Pearl Harbor with REAL Zeros (the actual planes used in Tora! Tora! Tora!). I have to say - for a 25 year-old USAF applicant - it was pretty powerful to sit there and watch a few planes do that - even knowing I was completely safe.
ANYWAY - on to why I am posting tonight. I don't know if you guys have read into the B-25J, but I found some awesome finished kits and good info here:
http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/allies/us/usaaf/48b25.htm
VERY interesting. The B-25s talked about in this article were flown to Corsica after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and were RE-PAINTED over their aluminum bodies with OD (or the Euro equivalent) to camouflage them from bombing raids.
Now, if you look on the front of the box for our kits, you can see the bottom half of the Mitchell is a shade of what should be aluminum. I wonder of it is making reference to these Corsica Mitchells... even thought it's a J.
I'm curious if anyone is going to try and go for this paint scheme. It might look weird to have an OD top with a aluminum bottom... but that is technically what happened to that squadron!
What do you guys use in your airbrushes to get that aluminum fuselage look? Lacquer?
Also found this for you guys that are going ALL OUT and adding rivets and panel lines:
http://www.primeportal.net/hangar/mark_hayward/b-25j_mitchell/index.php?Page=1