I recently completed this, my first 1/72 kit in recent times and found it to be a most enjoyable build, certainly well above many of the 1/72 kits available 30 years ago. The kit came with what I thought were really nice figures for a 1/72 kit so I decided to paint them and use them. Quite a variety in their sizes, the smallest are for the under wing nacelle stations and the medium sized fit the other turrets with the largest being the pilot and copilot.



Upper turret assembly




Front turret


Forward fuselage interior










Finished model


















I did only some exhaust staining and some grime on the undercarriage. I find that highlighting the panel lines in this scale makes them look too over done however I do wish now that I had done an overall fading wash to tone things down.

Thanks for looking,

Cheers

Gary

Very nice build mate. I have one in the stash. I agree 100% about the panel lines , yet I think they look overdone in any scale/ I worked on aircraft for a long time and it is hard to see most panel lines from just a few feet away, let alone scale distances of many many feet. Ailerons, elevators and rudders, yes, but not panel lines. But each to their own I suppose.

Very nice build of an impressive plane. Nice to have put a crew onboard, this gives a great sense of scale.

To reduce the cleanness of the model, maybe an extra little dirt (stripes) can be applied on the hinges of such things as ailerons, flaps and elevators (and other raised flow disturbing parts).




Jelger

Great looking airplane Gary, I really like your build! Thanks for sharing

Jim