What to do? I have no ideas?

Mossie · December 30, 2012, 02:31:10 PM

AEW, twin engined alternative to the Skyraider. Use the solid nose with the gun ports faired over, rob a radome from a Skyraider kit.

seadude · December 31, 2012, 06:28:48 PM

All the ideas presented by everyone are nice, but I think I'm going to stick with the Korean War B-25 idea.

Now all I need is some Korean War decals and a good camouflage scheme to use.

PR19_Kit · December 31, 2012, 10:26:35 PM

The Korean War B-26s were all-over black with red markings scattered liberally about the airframe. Your B-25 could look worse than using a scheme like that.

jcf · January 01, 2013, 10:36:13 AM

coolpop6307 · January 01, 2013, 12:42:18 PM

You could allways make it a firebomber.

Thanks
Joshua

Joe C-P · January 01, 2013, 07:09:25 PM

USN carrier-based

Gyroplane with shortened wings, no tail, and a big rotor on top

puddingwrestler · January 08, 2013, 03:28:06 PM

Why keep it as a plane? Make a space ship! Or scale-o-rama it and make a car. Or Transformers 1941 and make it a robot.

Army of One · January 12, 2013, 09:47:20 PM

Has this project been started.....

James · January 23, 2013, 02:15:52 AM

How about a primative example of a all-missile 'fighter' similar to the Douglas F6D Missileer. Fit some turboprops? Hang missiles on the belly and on the wingtips? Maybe extend the length of the wings for high altitude agility? A B-29 escort.

seadude · February 09, 2013, 07:50:45 PM

Quote from: Army of One on January 12, 2013, 09:47:20 PM
Has this project been started.....

No, not yet.

Went to my local model club meeting today to get advice for this project. Most of the members thought it would be a good and unique idea.

A few members thought that there were actually B-25's that served in the early years of the Korean War and encouraged me to look harder for references. I've scoured the Net, but haven't found anything. One link I went to is this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAF_units_and_aircraft_of_the_Korean_War
Majority of bomber units that served in Korea were B-29 and B-26 units. The B-25 never was in Korea.

I think I've got a good what if subject here.

I'll most likely paint the aircraft all black with red accents for a night attack variant. Have 8 guns in the nose, Keep the gun pods on either side of the cockpit, Keep the upper fuselage turret, Keep the rear tail turret, Ditch the side fuselage waist guns, and add under wing rockets. What I really need is some good Korean War unit decals. Maybe find some from a B-26 kit and add them to the B-25 instead. Anybody know of any good 1/48 scale B-26 Invader decal sheets that might be good to use?