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Victory Roll Without any further ado: I present the North American PBJ-1H Mitchell in 1/33rd scale. Kit by Orlik, "enhancements" by me. Enjoy: One behind the scenes shot: If there are any other views I missed, let me know, I'll try to take them. Final...

As I feared, this will be my last construction update for this build (spontaneous roar from the peanut gallery). Just had few last tidbits last night and this morning. Last night was the bomb bay doors. Added the hinges again using the kits parts but modified: This isn’t exactly how the...

Not difficult at all. You can slice this stuff with a hobby knife, and it leaves a flat end behind. Then you can see the ring of rosin in the middle (like cutting a tree). That's where to jab the drill to get started. Heading for the home stretch, the light is blinding on this end of the...

Actually Elliot, I never said what the next push will be, mainly because I'm not sure myself. I have a few things in the works, one for a friend included, but coming on the tail end of this build, you can be sure of one thing, it won't be a monumental project. I'm good for one of these once a...

The 'Cat look splendid Peter! The u-cart is a great addition and she looks ready to be catapulted off the deck. The wheels look a bit "Pilsworth-ish" though....hmmmm ;) Great job! Mike

Thanks Pete! Sadly, I think the end's nears though.... My camera's battery died last night, so any progress was not recorded. Not much was accomplished, but I did reach a decision last night: No clear coat. Not worth the effort. I was mulling over the possibility of over coating the entire...

Rick! Good to see you sir, I hope you're fully recovered. Your absence is sorely felt over at PM. Been lapse in my updates here, so to rectify: She can stand! I'm getting the last bits fitted to the fuselage while I decide if and/or how I might add a matte clear coat, which if I decide to...

So last night was the big event, the joining of wings to fuselage. Some last minute items to take care of first. The nav light was one, and you've already seen that. Also needed to finish off the ends of the elevators: The Orlik parts were the wrong color (again!), so I made my own: The...

LOL. Thanks Elliot, but I don't even need to find a pharmacy that uses green bottles, as the wingtip radome of Navy PBJ's obliterated the the right wingtip nav light! Mike

It's the little things...... OK, there was a thing that I had built early on and just sort of let go. As this build progressed, the more I looked at this "thing", the more it bugged me. So I finally banged this out in 30 minutes, and got it out of my system. Took a chunk of clear red...

And for similar reasons, Betty (nor any of her brethren) will not be adorning any wall in my house..... LOL, it does have a T.I.E. fighter look about it, doesn't it? I'm sure the enemy fighter pilots facing that view didn't much care for it! Mike

Well, I would have gone with Betty Grable: But hey, whatever floats your boat! ;) Took a detour from the elevators a bit tonight to try something. In looking over Elliot's pinup in my last post made me think about the patch work nature of the PBJ's at Kwajalein, and I thought I'd try to...

My pleasure, although I figure I would have been done with this thing about 3 months ago if I didn't stop to take pictures every now and again, but I'm not complaining.....;) Rudders took a lot to whip them into shape. The slots for the hinges were off quite a bit, and I had to cut and add...

A sight and sound to gladden the heart! They might have been part of the Doolittle raid anniversary observations held over the weekend. A gentleman over at the Hyperscale forum posted some pic he took...

Been woefully behind on updates, sorry. As this epic gets closer to the finish line, I start to get a little too focused. Now that I have a pair of struts to build to, I wanted to make a more positive connection in the wheel well. In Orlik's world, it's just a hole and a post to mount what's...

This is what I'm talking about Elliot: Lot's of light leakage there. A strip of gray card will cure that.... Next task was focused on attaching the nose: I had to make a fixture (left), the function of which will become apparent in a moment. The nose had to be glued in two steps. First...

Moving right along, last few nights were spent on the two “lumps” on the sides, now it’s the four bumps. I hate these, and always look for ways around making them. I saw this technique on the Russian “Card Army” forum, and thought I’d give it a go. Re-printed a scrap of the fuselage part for a...

Did a quick parts inventory. It’s down to this: Some doors and hatches, rocket rails, and the next push, the “lumps” on the sides of the fuselage (gun blisters). The blisters started off with some good old basic card modeling. Nothing fancy: While that was drying, needed to do some...

Thank you jg. The finished article: Mike

Man of few words, eh Jim? :) Put together the anti shimmy device (damper) that’s at the front of the strut. In yet another variation of the “dremel trick”, I punched out a bunch of small discs, this time stacking them on a wire with CA glue: The damper has a shaft protruding from either...