B-17 guy

I know this and only use it sparingly for difference in color variation on an area you won’t really see anyway. I never use it on the fuselage interior.

Outside of the obvious things like black for the instrument panel I’ll use a combo of interior green and dull dark green. Give it some variety I guess. Depending on the paint you use beret green is a good substitute for dull dark green. I don’t go crazy super detailing in there as most of won’t be seen anyways.

Wow! Price isn’t bad, but 2028?! And no idea of what the kit is supposed be like?

Link please

Honest question, why do you want aftermarket gear for that kit? Is there something wrong with the stock gear? I have that kit in the stash…

I have two J’s and a D in my stash. I’m thinking of doing one of the J’s in something different. Maybe captured German or interned Swiss with full neutrality markings.

Claim artistic license

Honestly, just a set of decals you like and roll with it. Ball turret installed or not. I get the accuracy part but sometimes…..

What parts for the ball turret are you not gonna be using? You may be better off getting the D kit now and swapping the panel where the BT would go from the D to the J and drilling a hole for the radome. Then just putt all the parts for J BT right to the D kit. They should fit with little to no modification.

I think it’s gonna easier if you look specific individual aircraft that carried the ball turret. I went to google info to help you and didn’t expect this is a rabbit hole when I started. Turns out there was a whole bomb group in the eto that took all the ball turrets out because of weight. And, the revell 1/48 D kit doesn’t have a ball turret in the kit which I’m surprised by. I wanna go check my it now. Bigger rabbit hole than I anticipated.

Can you post pics of the specific parts you’re working with on the Eduard kit please? I don’t have any Eduard P-51’s but have built many others. Tamiya has 2 pins on each flap, I just cut them off and glued the flaps in the up position. I don’t see why you can’t modify them and just glue the doors in the closed position.

Google image search that particular group and squadron? Also search without image and maybe find a webpage for that squadron. I’ve found info similar to what you’re looking for like this before. Sorry I don’t a direct answer.

You can go to the other sub forum and copy and paste there and delete this. personally it doesn’t bother me. I’d rather have these in here than having to sift through all the jet builds.

You’ve never a 48th scale B-17 before? They’re big but there are bigger. I should have mine today too.

I got a preparing to ship notice from squadron today….