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How about that Uruguayan one from the late 1970s "World Air Power"?

Stephen "FPilot" Bierce/IPMS #35922 {Sig Quotes Removed on Request}

eyeball wrote

Speaking of which...I've been looking for some decent walk-around pix of the Tallmantz bird for a number of years to enable me to build a model. Anyone got any pointers? I got one pic from Viking slides (IIRC), but more is never enough.

RobG (The Aussie one)

Which particular Tallmantz B-25 do you want? They had three:

Pat

pic? url?

what? can't read backwards.

When I was looking at that, I realized that this would be a really unique subject for a model project:

would be a really strange thing to drop on a IPMS contest. Rather like doing a simulated Zero, Kate, or Val from the movie "Tora, Tora Tora". I still remember the first time I saw "Flight Of The Phoenix" as a kid. The German model aircraft designer is the hero! Gott-damned right! That should rank right up there with any model builder's favorite movies, certainly far better than "In The Line Of Fire" with its crazed model builder assassin; although I'm still trying to figure out how you make a cast resin pistol that won't blow up on firing. I think that this requires the use of carbon microfibers embedded in the resin during construction, a technology that may be even beyond slide-molding and photo-etching. We'll have to see if DML issues a "Smart Gat" version of a non-metallic pistol. ;-)

Pat

It's supposed to be a B-25C-15 Mitchell B II.

I like the suggested Soviet Lend-Lease idea. Simple but different.

One suggestion. The Air Lines boxed Frog kits could sometimes have a pretty thick film of mold release. Wash the parts really well in soapy water and let dry before you start work on it.

Best of luck with the kit and best wishes for the holidays.

Tom

that's basically kahki.gray and red stars? well, i can google and that was the scheme i wanted and didn't know. good man! best of holidays to you and yours...bit late but, duh... thanks for the tip, scrub city done.

can't find a single ll cat.

Pat Flannery wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

Pat, Thanks for the heads-up - this may mean the postponement of some other projects...

RobG (The Aussie one)

Let me get Christmas done and I'll dig up a photo or two for you.

Remind me again on 12/26. I have to do some color photocopying and I have in my mind a Soviet B-25 with black sides and underbelly with OD tops. Let me see what I can find in the MAI Library for you.

Cheers,

Tom

as long as it isn't a pain in the ass for you. google completely let me down. thanks.