SPA Modeler

BSY, this is your fault.

Amazed by some of the amazing detail added to builds by BSY, I got the itching to do a scratchbuild project of my own. Enter Monogram's SnapTite B-25 Mitchell.


Clear pieces are a little thick, but clear


and the markings are nothing but stickers


opening up, I was met with slabs of dark green plastic, loosely jumbled into the box. And yeah, no interior what-so-ever!


this is what the cockpit pieces looked like, in case you were interested


I spent the next few minutes searching through the spares box for anything that looked like it could go in the bomber.




BRING IT ON!!!

JimD wrote:I'm in. Where on earth did you dig up that kit? I had that very same boxing too many years ago for me to care to remember.

BSY is surely inspiring. Looking forward to your own gizmology.

A fella at one of our club meetings brought along a box of kits he was looking to give away. Not one to pass up a bargain, I scooped this one up.

I love your glutton and want to punish it...

So, that is in 1/72 scale? Enough room for improvement. Have fun with scratch building the details!

yeppers, 1/72 scale it is!!

First things first, I stripped the fuselage halves of the snaptite pins. Pesky little things...


once the nubbins were sanded down smooth, I started adding the ribbing using strips of tape. Ill be building over this, so i didnt want it to stand up too much. After all the strips were down, I gave it a quick coat of future to seal it all together.



Then, most of last night and this evening were spent sprucing up the cockpit areas. A reminder of before...


and after!




Added some doodads and bobbles to the cockpit sides...




yay it fits!


here's where she sits now



whew! Im off to go uncross my eyes....

Gizmology at its best!

Off to a great start!

got busy with work and family stuff, but managed to add on part of the bomb bay and other doodads

BorgR3mc0 wrote:So, that is in 1/72 scale? Enough room for improvement. Have fun with scratch building the details!

No worse than the 1/72 scale kits I used to build in the mid to late 1960s....................actually, better.
At least Monogram seems to have given more than a pilot figure sitting on a stick.

Nice giz-mology , indeed !

HvH would be proud.