B-25J  MITCHELL

Aurora,  1/32nd scale

Building
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Views from aside
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Views from above
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Comments
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Now the finished model!!
This page shows pics of the whole model.
The hard stand of PSP (Perforated Steel Plates) is simply drawn on PaintShop and printed on heavy card stock by a color laser printer.
It's flat but effective, still better then a plain table!

All markings were drawn by me by MS Paint and MS Word. No sofisticate software!
Then they were printed on both clear and white decal paper by a color laser printer.

Undersides of the aircraft were left bare aluminium while uppersurfaces were painted olive drab at the depot before the aircraft being assigned to the Squadron.

After the model was painted gray to scribe the panel lines and rivets, I painted the whole undersides glossy black. This was a base for Alclad's Polished Aluminim which was airbrushed in a light layer.
Some Alclad's Aluminium was then airbrushed to give a different shine to some areas. Most of the undersurface were then polished with a polishing paste, others with SNJ's powder.

Engines stains were made by airbrushing light gray, black, light gray again and by using some white chalk powder.
I also used some Gunze's acrylic 'Oil' to underline some panels around the cowling and to simulate some leaking.

Uppersurfaces were first painted Humbrol's Polished Aluminim, then airbrushed with Molak's (an Italian firm)
LG-81 green (a Luftwaffe shade!). I think it the best brown-green around to paint this model according to the pic of "Ave Maria" you can see in the 'Index' page. I've read that the Olive Green used late in the war was different from the shade of the early years, and more durable.

Scratching the uppersurfaces with a wooden tool made the underneath metal to show.