The kit represents all the aircraft used in the famous April 18,1942 Doolittle raid on Tokyo, that was made even more famous with the release of the movie "30 seconds over Tokyo".
Work started with the construction of the cockpit. Since one has to look through the cockpit glass to view the interior, I'm not that concerned with adding extra detail to it, but rather trying to fool the viewers eye with detail painting and just adding home made seatbelts and harnesses.
The cockpit was painted a base color of Life Color Interior Green thinned 1:4 with their proprietary thinner. The Instrument panel is a molded in clear plastic, which you're instructed to use a masking medium of your own choosing to cover all the gauges, then paint it, and finally add a instrument decal to the back of the IP. The odds of me actually getting a liquid medium to cover all the gauges correctly is slim to none. So I drilled out all he gauges.
I then painted the IP with Tamiya Nato Black thinned 2:3 with Tamiya X20-A When dry I lightly dry brushed the IP, and then glued the cut out instrument decal to the back of the IP. Normally, I would have thinned out the panel as it's really quite thick, but test fitting showed that it is so far under the anti glare panel, that it won't be very visible.
I decided to make the seatbelts and harness assemblies out of layered masking tape, including the pull straps. I still haven't gotten to the point of adding buckles as I'm still trying to come up with a acceptable looking ones. I positioned the belts and harnesses as though they were just kind of tossed when the pilot and co-pilot removed them to exit the aircraft.
Well, that's as far as I've gotten into the build.
Joel
