Fantastic entry and ditto progress, my friend @dbutlr!
Looking forward to it!

You're going to want to get Reskit wheels and the Vector resin nose for this. Believe me, that nose makes a biiiiiiiiig difference and so do the wheels (since those in the kit bear no resemblance whatsover to what the B-26K used.

Since you're doing such excellent work so far, you really don't want to let yourself down with the defective kit parts. The Vector Resins nose is available in the US from Linden Hill Imports and the Reskit wheels are very avaiable from dealers on eBay.

Tom@tcinla perhaps you can explain in one sentence what is wrong with the ICM Invader eight gun nose. I lost IQ points going through all the measurements and such in posts when it came out.

While people were obsessing over the nose, deficiencies in the cockpit almost went unmentioned. The control yokes, On Mark did not use Douglas units but ICM put in the kit two A-26B/C control columns. R2D has the correct ones now, when I built mine had to scratch build. The red fuel select switches on the center console are 90 degrees off kit part, the aft center console is also wrong. The light gray quilted padding on the sidewalls and rear bulkhead are missing. The aft cabin light ICM molds to the back bulkhead needs to be moved forward until it is just aft of where the canopy clamshells open.

Yeah I obsessed a bit too much over building mine just after it came out. Maybe I got OCD - Obsessive Counter-Invader Disorder. Used photos from Cybermodeller and of "Special Kay" along with Invader in Action and IPMS/USA Quarterly Vol 16 No. 4. Got a second B-26K in the stash with more Aires wheels and the Eduard PE cockpit set. One of these days.

@dbutlr - keep plugging away as it is looking good so far.

What an amazing start on this great entry, David @bdutlr
That interior is looking superb.

Didn't take too many photos during construction so took these last night. Maybe on next build.

The resin wheels are by Aires, even has Goodyear on the sidewalls. When the kit first came out, they were the only game. I made the quilted padding from rolling the top part of X-Acto knife over aluminum foil to make diamond pattern, painted it light gray, put a black wash to make the pattern pop, cut the foil to fit copilot side plus areas behind canopy. This provides some color to an otherwise black pit of a cockpit.

4 attached images. Click to enlarge.

Type 3 wheels are right. The B-26K used KC-135 nose wheels for the main gear. The regular B-26 wheels are wrong for the K. As a matter of fact you can see them in Chuck's photos.

@dbutlr

You are welcome. The kit goes together pretty good.

Instructions will tell you to paint the gear wells Lime Green. White bottom aircraft got white, black bottom ones got black according to the IPMS/USA article from 1981. But the only flying B-26K "Special Kay" has her gear wells a medium or interior green.