That's a great amount of excellent work, my friend @davids_models!

The sixth week of the PBJ-1D I had to make some minor adjustments on the nose to fit to the rest of the fuselage. I then used Kapton tape to mask the two nose pieces and the canopy. For the nose section I added the jump seat and the seat belts.

For masking with Kapton tape see my Tips and Tricks section at https://davidsscalemodels.com/tips-and-tricks/masking-with-kapton-tape/

I then started on the engines. The kit came with the engines having both cylinder sections and the front assembly. One thing I noticed was on the first row of cylinders they did not mold in the push rods. I grabbed some fine styrene rods and made the push rod tubes. These engines were then detail painted and assembled. I have a decal sheet that has a variety of engine logos and ID placards. I used the Curtiss-Wright logos and ID placard decals for the front of the engines. The nacelles, cowls, and engines were then mounted to the wings. With these mounted and the nose it looks like the 45 grams of weight I hid under the cockpit worked out well from keeping the model from being tail heavy. I am now working on the landing gear and adding the various details like antennas, landing gear doors, and the rest of the clear lenses for the aircraft lights. Then I can mask off the rest of the windows and start painting the base coats for the upper and lower portions of the aircraft.

You can see all the photos and details from the start in the build log at: https://davidsscalemodels.com/build-log/1-48-pbj-1d-b-25-mitchell/

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Excellent progress, my friend @davids_models!

Superb scratch build upgrades, David @davids_models
A big improvement over the original parts.

The eighth week of the PBJ-1D from the “The Fork-Tailed Devils” of VMB-433 for the U.S. Marines located on Emirau Island, New Guinea 1944 is now completed! I spent the week doing the finishing details, painting, applying decals, and finally a bit of weathering. I added the final antennas on the topside and then I drilled out the recognition lights, painted them with chrome silver, filled them with acrylic gel then painted them using Tamiya clear red, green, and yellow. Next I trimmed of the molded in wing tip lights and the formation lights. These areas trimmed off were painted chrome silver and then the lenses were formed using the acrylic gel. Once dried the formation lights were painted blue and the wing tip lights were painted red on the port side and green on the starboard side. I used EZ-Line fine for the upper and lower antenna lines. The decals were the kit decals which went on very well. They were thin enough to conform to the surface details. The propellers were then painted. The blades are semi-gloss black and the hubs are gloss black.

The kit itself went together very well. There are some minor fit issues but they are not too bad. The clear parts fit very well. The landing gear doors and the boarding ladders were very thick and not very accurate but with photo etch and with some scratch building these were corrected. The instructions are very good for assembly but they have some inaccuracies as well. The kit has extra parts for various versions but the instructions do not address these. One example is they have the internal bomb bay extra fuel tank and a full complement of bombs but do not mention which versions use which setup. The full load of bombs do not fit in the internal fuel tank is used. Some versions used wing mounted bombs and some do not. They supply the wing mounts but do not note which ones utilized them. As noted before the decals are very good quality and conform very well. Overall it was a fun kit to build and with some minor work makes a nice display model. Thank you for following this build and happy modeling!

You can see all the photos and details from start to finish in the build log at: https://davidsscalemodels.com/build-log/1-48-pbj-1d-b-25-mitchell/

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Another really nice model, David (@davids_models). B-25s are one of my all-time favorites, especially in Navy colors.