This will be "Snow White"....a Ploesti Raider that ended up getting shot down after a raid. The kit looks pretty impressive, aside from a total lack of interior detail up front. Spent the last few days adding a mess of wires, do-dads, and gizmos, along with a bunch of other prominent features that should be there!
The instructions show the assembly of the cockpit floor to the front bulkhead wrong. The floor needs to slide all the way forward, creating the nose section desk(which also needs a bit cut off the port side). I cut out the top portion of the bulkhead and scratched the detail and added a mess of wires.
The sidewalls were babybutt smooth, so all you see is scratch and spares. Ammo crates are scratched from resin pour blocks, bombsight is bits of sprue, styrene and wire. Added detail to the guns. Front seat and ammo chutes are PE.
Desk lamp is wire and sprue.
Added sidewall detail and some G.N.D.N. wires and plumbing to the wheel well.
The kits pilot seats aren't bad, but I scratched some new ones anyway(Arizona Tea can aluminum)! Because I love it so!
I have PE belts, but they just never look realistic to me, so I cut the buckles off and used them with Tamiya tape.
IP is pre-colored PE, however, it was pre-painted in a crappy green......my refs. show it should be black, so I repainted it.
