Yes indeed. I figured your timeframe from the white codes, war worn look, and no invasion stripes. I well researched her for my build of her as she looked on D-Day. She had just flown her 100th mission only a short time before so I had to alter the mission marks accordingly. As well as "gray" out the stars and use the gray ID codes from that point of her career.  And of course have fresh looking invasion stripes over an already well worn paint scheme. 

Dayum Shipwreck, she looks absolutely stunning! Those hand painted letters look fabulous and just perfect the way they are. 

This is a job VERY well done.  :D

Great build, Shipwreck! The time and effort paid off in spades. Love the handpainted letters!

Great job Mate, way better than good!  This is absolutely my favorite aircraft.

You inspire me to build another one and TRY to emulate your painting and weathering techniques, but I'll hafta check my putty stores to see if I have enough.

After about a week after completing Flak Bait, I returned to the project to review the results. There were several changes that were made that would not be considered to be of any significance. The most extensive change was to add more weathering to the neutral grey camouflage. You can see in the first photo that it just did not come up (or down) to 200 mission standards.

at the declaration of "finished" a week ago:

Additional weathering:

This is a photo of Flak Bait on her 200th mission on 18 April ,1945. The model is suppose to represent her just before take off!

Just a superb build!  I'm shocked at how well you hand painted the numbers on the Marauder.  That is just so cool looking!  I wouldn't change a thing!

Toshi

Oh wow, thats the stuff!!! 

No way on Earth could I have brush painted instead of decals and not had it look like a mess. 

Hey guys, I want you to understand the the call letters were not free hand painted; I made stencils and airbrushed them and then touched them up with a brush. The Flak Bit nose art was hand brushed over a faint decal!

Never-the-less I need to wrap this project up. Still looking for a specific white stencil for the nose gear door and there is a hard stand in production; but she is done!

Thank you for all of you who took the time to view my progress and especially all the kind words which I have received. They were all very encouraging.

Photo bucket kicked it. This is an experiment with Flicker!!

 DSC05244 by Benjamin Zabriskie, on Flickr