Ok David, you got my interest piqued and since there appears to be a little time to accommodate my glacial building pace, I'll throw my hat in the ring with a 1/48 B-25 from the movie "Catch-22", which will probably also satisfy my need for girlie nose art in the Nose Art build as well! Kit is in the stash and I think I saw decals just for this somewhere, so barring total apathy on my part, I think I'll give it a go...

Great choice. Had a long discussion about this the other week on iModeler. The scene with McWatt chopping Sampson in half on the beach traumatised me and fascinated me in equal measures as a 10 year old. Set up a lifelong love of (very) black comedy and the apparent randomness of tragedy.

Interestingly (I really need to get out more) a European release of the book looked like this...

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Yeah, Gotta love it! more B-25's to go along with my Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. All those B-25's taking off in the beginning of Catch-22 is worth watching alone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At88Fcdgv0g
Good luck with the build.

Jaime, here’s a ‘three for one’ - B-25’s, Catch 22, AND Nose Art. All of these aircraft were in Catch 22 - apologies for offended sensibilities...

Booby Trap.

Heavenly Body.

Laden Maiden.

Free, Fast, and Readt.

Vestal Virgin.

Hot Pants.

Luscious Lulu.

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100%, Gary. Different times, huge pressures, low life expectancy. These men earned the right to paint whatever they wanted on those aircraft.

Here's a photo of one of the actual B-25 planes used in the movie...

or in this case "Bomb's Away" (or "Bombs Gone" for our friends across the pond...).

Jamie the decals you may want to look at are at the below link. I've used them and they are outstanding! No issues at all and are in register. Several different A/C are depicted in their sets of 340th A/C

http://www.bombshelldecals.com/

The bombshell decals are for real aircraft of the real 340th BG. Kits World also has decals for real B-25s of the 57th Bomb Wing (340th, 310th and 321st Bomb Groups). If you can find a copy of my book The Bridgebusters (I think Amazon still has a few) you can learn the real story and discover that the novel was more a "roman a clef" based on reality than the complete work of fiction Joe Heller always claimed it was.

Here's a photo of Heller with a "crew" from when he took the deal Yossarian turned down and got off missions by participating in the making of a documentary "Training For Combat." He's second from the right, standing in the rear row. My theory of why he wrote the book is because he disliked himself for doing this, and a writer can "change reality," which he did with the book.

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