Latin Lovely

[lancer]

I actually finished this little beauty about 3 months ago, but this is the first chance I've had to post her here.

This is the Revell B26 Marauder that I got from F32 for this build. The modifications I've made to her are as follows.
1- Deleted and faired over the dorsal turret
2- changed the glass bomber nose to a solid nose. To achieve this I sanded the raised etail from the glazed nose, then added a nosecone from my spares box, applied copious amounts of filler and shedloads of sanding to blend the whole thing in.
3. I then drilled 4 small holed in the front of the nose and added the .50 cal gun barrels to them ala Mossie FB6 style
4.- To add additional firepower to the front of hre I drilled out 2 ports to represent 20mm cannon ports. These can be seen as the small metallic squares just under the nose.
5.- I also added 8 60lb rockets - 'borrowed' from one of my stashed kits, not sure if it was the Academy Typhoon or the Revell Tempest!! But I think they look pretty damm cool

Then it was onto painting. Black undersides and a 3 colour upper scheme. Tan base with 2 shades of green. NOT my favourite part of doing this kit as my airbrush is dying. Finally I added Venezuelan markings. The sharks mouth came from the Airfix Lightning decal sheet and fitted the nose perfectly and the panther/Jaguar head under the cockpit came fron the Vulcan sheet for XH558.

Well, here she is, enjoy



Rafa - The backstory I was writing had you as her pilot. Hope you would have liked flying her. Unfortunately, the backstory got lost before I could type it up.

[lancer]

Frigging Typical!!!! I apologise for the crappy picture. I'll get some better ones done and re post shortly.

[anthonyp]

Still looks like a beauty, though!  Nice job!

   

[Brian da Basher]

Wow is that killer! I'd hate to see all those guns bearing down on me! Those Venezuelan markings really set off that cool camo scheme nicely!

Brian da Basher

[ysi_maniac]

Just beautiful. Rafa will be proud to drive her. Sure            

[Captain Canada]

Looking good so far...love the shape of the nose. Looking forward to the better pics !

 

[Rafael]

W O N D E R F U L  ! ! ! ![/size]

Wow!!!
Blame on me my missing this entirely.

And I consider it a gift!!!

Thanks, Lancer!!!

That plane sure would have been a great addition to our ancient B-25J fleet!

I, for one, would have voted to keep it in flying condition, and would be a main attraction in Maracay City's Aeronautics Museum.

Where's the emoticon with the flushed cheeks??

Rafa
(proud Venezuelan B-26 pilot)