Lee Drennen’s 1/72 B-25 Mitchell Re-Build

[Lee Drennen]

Add the wheels and ladder. This is a tall sitter no matter how much weight I put in the nose or near the front. The ladder will have to extend to the ground so I guess I’ll deal with it. The wheels and tires have very nice details so I’m happy with that. More updates soon

[adt70hk]

Lee

Wasn't around when you started this. It has come on very nicely indeed.

Keep up the good work.

Andrew

[scottie3158]

Lee,
looking good mate, the ladder is a great idea to get it to sit right.

[Tim Marlow]

Looking good Lee. Surprised she’s a tail sitter though, there is a lot of aircraft forward of the main wheels....

[Lee Drennen]

Worked on the “Mitch” this morning finally got the nose landing gear and added a resin wheel to it and got her belly painted Gray. This nose gear was a challenge for me. [ATTACH]425472[/ATTACH][ATTACH]425473[/ATTACH][ATTACH]425474[/ATTACH][ATTACH]425475[/ATTACH][ATTACH]425476[/ATTACH]

[Jim R]

Hi Lee
I had forgotten you had started this. Glad to see it back on the go and almost complete especially as .......

I’ve had it since I was about 16 years old.

..... so that means it's been languishing in the stash for 10 years :tongue-out3: :smiling: :smiling2:

Seriously though it does look nice especially given the problems.
Jim

[Mini Me]

Looking good Lee, got some depleted uranium DC -8 balance weights down in the shop if you need a little.....of course it might collapse that nice nose gear you just finished installing.
Rick H.

[Lee Drennen]

Jim. Thanks for returning. I don’t know if I should take that as a comment but thanks.

Rick. I think I will stick to the ladder. Glad you stopped back by.

[Lee Drennen]

This afternoon I worked some more on the B-25 Just some little details and I’m calling the “ Lady Luck” finished. The decal “Lady Luck” decal was not wanting to stick but I finally got it to work. I decided to put some better decals for the Star and Bar. I also finished the cockpit and added the top canopy, center turret guns, tail guns and painted the wheels.
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[Mini Me]

She looks good Lee...........Ready for a scrap with the Japs. Well done on a very old kit and a nice little solution to the tail heaviness that was always a problem with these kits. :thumb2: Rick H.

[Lee Drennen]

Rick. Thanks this Aircraft is named so wrong there was no luck with building this I had mostly bad luck. But I hope my Luck is changing

[JR]

Very nice Lee, seems ages since you took this apart and did the rebuild. The committee had meeting as I'm pleased to announce the award of the dogs.

[adt70hk]

Lee

That's coming on very nicely indeed.

Very well done.

Andrew

[Lee Drennen]

John Thank you a the committee for such a high honor. It makes the frustration of this build pay off.

Andy. Thanks for the complement it’s almost done

[Lee Drennen]

Calling this one done.