Great job! My son went to the airshow yesterday and put together a plane today, his first model, by himself, just turned 10. So proud...he's not actually done yet, but he is working hard. And he is having fun!!!!!
Builders tip; Paint the props yellow, or whatever the tip color is, then mask the tips before painting the black on the blades, much easier than getting the yellow to cover the black.
Great music selection. Really cool build. My dad was in the USAF for 13 years. Vietnam 🇻🇳 vet. He was a radio operator. He’s going to be with my mom soon due to lung cancer. Not looking forward to the loss. Life does carry on though.
I’m an unabashed child of the 50’s when this model was one of the best! I vividly remember spirited debates between the members of Den 6, Pack 1 Conimicut, Cub Scouts of America over the merits of the “Dragon Plane” versus the Monogram B-25. The consensus was that the Revell plane was better due to the trainable gun mounts and the picture on the box. Thanks to Atlantis for bringing these kits back and thanks to you for a classic build!
HEADLINE - under TWENTY BUCKS ! ! You could buy Five (for less than one average 1/72 "upscaled" kit would be). With 5 you could hang them from the ceiling on fishing line and duplicate the lead flight of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo - Go Jimmie Doolittle. Oh, and YOUR finish of this is again wonderful. You truly are good. Thank you for sharing - REALLY...
Hi Guy...I have to give you credit pal!! You never find fault with any model ..made by any brand lol. I built this Revell model in 1960 …. I'm 71 now... and am working on Revells " BLACK PEARL" now....which I must have gotten a lemon because this almost kissed the wall !! I'm having to glue and putty almost everything. Back to the B-25 B model.. try the J model. A lot nicer.
Every single kit made has 'faults'. I show the parts, I show the fit so that everyone can see for themselves. I just don't lament about it like so many others do. I build it up and have fun. :)
Hi Chris, I've been watch your TH-cam channel for quite a while now. I went back to view your older reviews and builds and I am very amazed at how quick and thorough you are in your reviews. It is very refreshing to see and hear someone say do it your way and have fun building it your way. My dad got me involve when I was about 8 years old...many decades ago. I think back about it since he has passed about 4 years ago. My first build was a Navy Corsair I think 1/32 scale. Only problem I had when I finished, I had the main wings backward. He said it was a good first time, but when he noticed the wings, he said (with a smile)you know it will be difficult for pilot to fly the plane with wings being backwards and laughed. He asked if I want to leave it that way since it was my first time or he could show me how to fix it if I wanted him to. I asked if him if could show me how to make it right. He later showed me how to fix it without destroying the plane. one of my best memories with my dad.
They caught every detail in that old kit including the flash and blemishes!! I did a few of these back in the day and every kit took a whole tube of glue. :-)
That's what we called Box Scale, Revell boxes were mostly one size so they would scale the model to fit the box. It just happened to be 1/64. That's cool nowadays because there are tons of die-cast vehicles in 1/64 scale so there are endless possibilities for small dioramas.
Wow Chris, this build is awesome! Your upbeat presentation is so entertaining and your love for this hobby is so refreshing, having fun is the key in my opinion! ! Thanks for building and posting your videos! !
When I was a kid building models I liked the Lindberg kits as most of them had those cool stands to display the airplane on. That was the good ole days. Nowadays I resorted to making my own stands from clear acrylic from Tap Plastics, they work great. Built this Revell kit when I was a kid.Why 1/64 scale? That's called box scale as that size fit into the box. That's how they did it back then with airplane kits.
Just picked this up yesterday at Hobby Lobby for $19.99. Love the Retro box and all of the great extras -- figures, clear stand, two ways to build it and so on.
I built that Revell B-25B kit in high school. I liked the flexible gun blisters, so mine functioned. My Mitchell was done up as the Marine version, a PBJ-1D. With high-and-tight Light Gull Grey on the undersurface, carried up the sides, and Intermediate Non-Specular Sea Blue higher up on the fuselage. Anti-glare Dark Sea Blue patches on the inboard engine nacelles, Sea Blue on the upper wings and top of fuselage. The light blue was also carried on the sides of both vertical stabilizers. Built LDG down, I used a .380 round as a nose weight. The drop tank from some unlucky 1/72 fighter was cannibalised for a starboard wing RADAR pod, mounted midway forward of the leading edge, between wing tip and nacelle. Vivid red-outlines US white-winged national recognition markings, as per 1943 regulations Only the Nose Gunner survived. Some years later, I forgot about the model and put it up at my parents house. While I was overseas my kid nephews got into my stuff and thrashed it. The Gunner, a Top Turret Blister, and some 2-out-of -3 bladed props are all that's left of my PBJ-1D. Your build brought me back a long ways, Great Job. I liked your adherence to Old School policy.
I couldn’t tell you how long it has been since I built a military aircraft kit... but after seeing the GREAT 👍 job that you did here, I have a bit of the “bug”!!! Thanks for another great video!
An even later review. Finally found this because I wanted to see how a car guy handled a plane: Just great it turns out! And seeing this gives me ideas. What ever you do in modeling, enjoyment is the key. Enjoy doing your project, enjoy your results, and enjoy learning and what you want to do again or different next time. Last, enjoy sharing with a positive attitude. Thanks
It looks fantastic! To show you how old I am I built the original issue with the Doolittle Raider's marking only and the box art showing the B-25 taking off from the carrier. It was a fun build then and surprisingly the fit of most older kits was better than they are today. hanks for sharing this.
Hats off to Atlantis. Brought two. PLus the B-24. Kits when I was a very young kid. Looking forward to the kits that about to released. Agai hats off to Atlantis.
Hello Chris, I scored today, got my B-25 and the H-25 helicopter. Went to hobby lobby with coupon and they had Testors camo spray cans all colors on closeout, $1.49 per can, I bought them all, one Model master spray can 92 cents and the biggest deal was a can of Testors frosted glass .21 cents, has a ton of uses for dioramas. Going to make the Doolittle Raiders version and a yellow rescue helicopter, 1/48 scale so fits right in. I'm still working on my C-600 roll back, going to paint the frame now.
The bottom gun turret was metal completely.Operated with a periscope. I hate saying it because nothing you do is even close to negativity. It is old but, gives a good static display of a cool looking plane. Super base though. Worth buying the kit just to get that base. Atlantis should do that base to sell separately. It is nice & high. Nice review. A favorite subject. I love viewing your work. Most of the builds are just awesome.
I’m late making a comment but I’m happy to see you apply your skills to a different model genre. I remember your first few presentations - the old saying sh8ps all of which I have and built using your techniques. Great stuff.
Since I am an oldschool nonprecise kinda guy this was right up my alley. --- Also, as with most of your videos I picked up some neat tricks ( great use of cotton balls - simple yet effective). Mod Podge,, Dollar Store items and whoda thunk to use makeup ?!?!? Great colors - turned out awesome.
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Nice... you do a lot of building... one suggestion on this one would have been to paint the canopy framing with the fuselage color... the interior of the frames was interior / chromate green, but the exterior was fuselage color... it's pretty common on external framing to paint the interior color first, then the exterior color, so you if you can see inside the glass it's the right color inside, and on the outside, and it requires no more masking.... on this one you could paint the interior framing fuselage exterior color, then interior color.... just a little nitpick, but one that might be helpful.... you have fun, that's the main thing.... keep 'em coming... !
Had to get this one after seeing you build it (which you make seem effortless due to your great skill). My dad and I built the whole series of WWII US fighter and bomber planes from Revell back in the late 60s and early 70s, including this one. It'll be nice to indulge in a nostalgia build of a kit that I once built as a boy, and all thanks to you and Atlantis. ;-)
great job on the Mitchell. got a B-17 group build i'm taking part in . so far this revel kit is working out great for the others in this build....no time limit for this one. I do have the Revell version of this kit on my shelf, been think of busting it out , but will have to wait a little longer .
Great kit...I made one in the 60s...a true kid job but I loved it! Atlantis should be given KUDOS for making kits available at a reasonable price for anyone on a budget. Parents...get one for you sons AND daughters. YES! OOORAH...lol
As usual, superb historical explanation, build and highly detailed painting. Thanks, really like your videos. I’m always excited to watch and can’t wait for more 👍👍👍👍
A salute to you and the Army Air Forces/ U S Air Force. Another fine job. It just goes to show with just a little bit of time work and skill an old kit can still build up to a nice looking model. Keep'm coming!
Really awesome build Chris! Way to bring to life an older kit that many of us had no idea even existed! Nice small compact bookshelf size, and it didn't look like it took that long to assemble! As a side note, if you build the Doolittle raider version, leave off the guns as the real ships didn't carry them to Japan, they were ditched to save weight so the planes could get off the carrier deck! :) Thanks also for the sea chanty music, it makes a Navy man like me swell with pride! Keep up the fantastic builds!!
Fantastical build 👌 Love the pure nostalgia clear stand, I remember those from my Revell kits of the early 60s. In one way it's a shame it's 1/64 because it will look odd displayed with other aircraft. But displayed seperately, like on a desk or in an office it will look great. Also it is marvellous for teaching beginners how to build aircraft. Well done Atlantis Models you get an 11/10 from me for that re-pop.
Great build Chris! Please do more airplanes sir. Thank you for bring us great videos and outstanding model building. As always best channel on TH-cam. Thanks again Chris.
Yeah, I know it is a cheap and basic kit but the belly turret was NOT clear glass, but the tail cone was. I built a couple of these. They were fun kits to build.
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Thursday, 4 July, 2024) This kit is roughly equivalent to S-gauge for model trains. One could place a late 1940s civilian passenger plane version somewhere in such a display.
South africa near ct, 1957 the first revell kishady box i ss in a paint and hardware shop, dont know what happened to my b 25 but i still have the boxtop, mint condition, ,,the flying dragon,, i was 12 and hooked ever since,
Point of Information, Friend. The B-25B model, as Col. Doolittle's group used, originally did have a remote Twin .50 belly turret. It had no plexiglass, but a flat reflex viewer behind armor glass plate and was retractable and remotely operated. To save weight it was deleted on the Tokyo Mission. A broomstick in the clear tail cone acted as a decoy .50. With the J- model, North American moved the twin .50 mount forward, behind the cockpit, and added a manned twin .50 tail gun. The later type [subject of the Monagram B-25] deleted the dorsal turret. B-25Js had single .50 mounts on each side of the rear fuselage, like the B-17s.
@@sonnyd.6777 Yep.. I've been doing model kits for 29 years now I still remember the very first model airplane kit that I built..it was a 1/48 scale revell MIG-29 fulcrum jet fighter.. I'm 42 years old now and I still enjoy building car, truck, jet airplane, and helicopter model kits 👍👍👍😀😀😀
@@michaelupton2310 im an armour modeler. But built a couple of 1/48 planes like, Me262, Skyhwak and Komet. I really want to build a B17 but no space to display😥
Great work on the old vintage b25. I am working on the revell 1/28 scale Sopwith camel. I sprayed the upper and lower wings in the correct colors by using Rust-Oleum 2x paints and let dry for about a week, then applied the decals, but when I sprayed the matte clear coat it cracked the paint. Any idea as to why it did that?.
Greetings from Germany. Just watched your Video as an Inspiration. I collect Greenlight 1:64 and now they made a nice Willys Jeep and a Sherman Tank will coming soon. Mostly i buy the Greenlights at a Onlineshop in the Netherlands, best prices, fast delivery and a huge actual Assortment in Modelcars of all scales and Brands. And he has this B-25 Bomber vor 25€. I dont do Modelkits and i was hot sure If i should buy it as a Display with the Jeep and Sherman Tank. Thanks for your Video, think i should buy the Kit
Another great build - love when you do the box scale/entry level kits Would love to see you do the 1/64 Lindberg “Nose Art” B-17 Do you think the Airfix 1/72 bomber re-supply kit would look out of place with a 1/64 plane? Close enough? Take care and thank you!
Hmmm... sounds like you are describing items that stand next to each other in some craft store... If I am right that chain has right next to it Academy's B-17 in 72 scale, though decals aren't good :(
Another great build! I’m hooked! Do you ever “sign” your models on a hidden surface? I would always do that when I used to build. Was just reminded of it when you showed the unfinished fuselage interior.
Beautiful! Kinda sad to see that the new Revell dissed it out 'cuz it's an old kit. I mean, it's clean, so, the molds must have been well kept, therefore, there was more or less of a reason to sell it IMO. Just a question like this. If you had put the Tamiya black liner thing behind the green of your gel pen, would've it have darken the green color? And I love Modelmaster's zinc cromate color. I wish I could find a green close to that color in spray paint to paint some cars that color.
Dad use to say a B25 idling sounds like somebody dumped a 5 gallon bucket of nuts and bolts into a washing machine. I like the de-ice boots(shouldn't there be black strips on the leading edges of the prop blades?) and being a prop mechanic i would have to detail the props a little better( domes would have to be silver, hubs aluminum, orange oval simulating the ham stam sticker) but nice build looks like it was fun to do
What? Rust-Oleum don't have an OD green? How dare they! You're correct,the black on the leading edges were rubber bladders that could be pressurized,to crack off ice. Some even had them on prop blades on larger aircraft!
Nice! I am just wrapping up mine build of this guy. When I was buying this kit I was thinking it would be a nice exercise in rescribing and gap filling but when I've opened the kit my first thought "tough luck!". Oh, well, used it as an exercise in weathering and marble pattern preshading. PS: sometimes I think old Revell models are better than new ones (and probably were great for the time)... PPS: What's your next project from Atlantis? NASA B-52 with X-15?
Is there any way to make the landing gear removable, like to display it with or without landing gear by placing flat pieces of magnetic material on the contact points, or maybe double ended sticky tape? What would you recommend?
Mixed with water, doesn't take much. Check out my video on painting models with cheap spray cans, just search my home page. I go over all my steps. Thanks!
Love the variation in models! How about the new reimagined Enterprise 1701 from discovery for a build? Show may not be my fav, i did like the updated Enterprise. Much better than the JJprise.
Thanks! I've requested it three times now and @Round2Models has decided not to send it for review. I do not know why. My USS Discovery review went over pretty well, was a fun kit.
Good morning Chris. Grandson & I are new and building the revell kit…could you share the color codes of the colors you used on the interior? Much appreciated!!
My answer is do not worry about color codes. I don't. Pick colors that look similar and go with that. The craft stores have massive paint selections, you'll find stuff that looks the part. Enjoy the hobby and don't stress matching others or perfect color codes. Thanks!
Which variant of the North American Aviation B-25 Mitchell USAAF Medium Bomber is this, please? I am checking my memory as to the official colours of the camouflage painting: Olive Drab over Neutral Grey?
I love this kit and everything about it. BUT if you're the type of modeler that needs to know exact variants and minute details you'll want to grab a more modern kit as this is a 50+ year old kit and won't meet your exacting requirements. Thanks!
@@hpiguy , some of the projects I envision would be in-flight, the landing gear up, the propellers turning, a full crew at their stations. I would place in sequence models in descending scales for a forced-perspective airborne diorama. I know a way to hide from view the stand, borrowing from motion picture production the concept and device of the Chapman crane. For example, in the joint U.S. Navy-USAAF Tokyo Raid of April 1942, a 1:48th-scale kit of the B-25B (likely Accurate Miniatures), this Revell kit, a 1:72nd-scale kit, amongst others. And maybe that new 1:32nd-scale later variant, if reworking it is possible. This old Revell model looks like it could serve as a -B with little effort. The crew I could make from S-gauge model railroad figurines.
This was the FIRST Kit I ever built in 1955; I have built over 2000 kits since!! GREAT Post!!!
Thanks for watching and thanks for the nice comment! Much appreciated, model on!
Great job! My son went to the airshow yesterday and put together a plane today, his first model, by himself, just turned 10. So proud...he's not actually done yet, but he is working hard. And he is having fun!!!!!
That's Awesome Boba, Keep The Hobby ALIVE !!🤗🤗🤗🤗
Thanks, have fun with the kid!
Builders tip; Paint the props yellow, or whatever the tip color is, then mask the tips before painting the black on the blades, much easier than getting the yellow to cover the black.
I'm not having an issue covering it, but others may be.
Great music selection. Really cool build. My dad was in the USAF for 13 years. Vietnam 🇻🇳 vet. He was a radio operator. He’s going to be with my mom soon due to lung cancer. Not looking forward to the loss. Life does carry on though.
Thanks Rich, sorry about your dad, take care.
I’m an unabashed child of the 50’s when this model was one of the best! I vividly remember spirited debates between the members of Den 6, Pack 1 Conimicut, Cub Scouts of America over the merits of the “Dragon Plane” versus the Monogram B-25. The consensus was that the Revell plane was better due to the trainable gun mounts and the picture on the box. Thanks to Atlantis for bringing these kits back and thanks to you for a classic build!
Thanks!
This kits are really for fun, they're not supposed to be hardly detailed, as the dimensions are wrong anyway. Would buy one or more from this line!
Thanks man!
HEADLINE - under TWENTY BUCKS ! ! You could buy Five (for less than one average 1/72 "upscaled" kit would be). With 5 you could hang them from the ceiling on fishing line and duplicate the lead flight of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo - Go Jimmie Doolittle. Oh, and YOUR finish of this is again wonderful. You truly are good.
Thank you for sharing - REALLY...
Thanks RA!
Hi Guy...I have to give you credit pal!! You never find fault with any model ..made by any brand lol. I built this Revell model in 1960 …. I'm 71 now... and am working on Revells " BLACK PEARL" now....which I must have gotten a lemon because this almost kissed the wall !! I'm having to glue and putty almost everything. Back to the B-25 B model.. try the J model. A lot nicer.
Every single kit made has 'faults'. I show the parts, I show the fit so that everyone can see for themselves. I just don't lament about it like so many others do.
I build it up and have fun. :)
Hi Chris, I've been watch your TH-cam channel for quite a while now. I went back to view your older reviews and builds and I am very amazed at how quick and thorough you are in your reviews. It is very refreshing to see and hear someone say do it your way and have fun building it your way.
My dad got me involve when I was about 8 years old...many decades ago. I think back about it since he has passed about 4 years ago. My first build was a Navy Corsair I think 1/32 scale. Only problem I had when I finished, I had the main wings backward. He said it was a good first time, but when he noticed the wings, he said (with a smile)you know it will be difficult for pilot to fly the plane with wings being backwards and laughed. He asked if I want to leave it that way since it was my first time or he could show me how to fix it if I wanted him to. I asked if him if could show me how to make it right. He later showed me how to fix it without destroying the plane. one of my best memories with my dad.
They caught every detail in that old kit including the flash and blemishes!! I did a few of these back in the day and every kit took a whole tube of glue. :-)
Only because in those days one of us had the patience to use a toothpick to apply a thin layer of Testors, like our dads tried to teach us :)
Great build! Never saw a 1/64 kit before but this will look great next to the 1/64 diecasts!
Thanks!
That's what we called Box Scale, Revell boxes were mostly one size so they would scale the model to fit the box. It just happened to be 1/64. That's cool nowadays because there are tons of die-cast vehicles in 1/64 scale so there are endless possibilities for small dioramas.
@@radioactivelarry Thanks for explaining!
Tim, Currently Lindberg offers a B-17 in 1/64 from Hobby Lobby for $15. Molded in white with a 20" span and includes a 12x24" poster of the box art.
Wow Chris, this build is awesome! Your upbeat presentation is so entertaining and your love for this hobby is so refreshing, having fun is the key in my opinion! ! Thanks for building and posting your videos! !
Thanks Ron, it's all about enjoying the hobby!
I remember that kit. I built a lot of that type of kit. Maybe I'll try one. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Thanks for watching!
Thinking of getting the Atlantis B-25 from my local Hobby Lobby.
The new repop's are a fun trip down memory lane without destroying a relic kit. Remember when Woolworth's was your go to model place.
Beautifull video. Great result in that vintage model using old techniques. I never get tired of seeing it..
I love these too!
When I was a kid building models I liked the Lindberg kits as most of them had those cool stands to display the airplane on. That was the good ole days. Nowadays I resorted to making my own stands from clear acrylic from Tap Plastics, they work great. Built this Revell kit when I was a kid.Why 1/64 scale? That's called box scale as that size fit into the box. That's how they did it back then with airplane kits.
Just picked this up yesterday at Hobby Lobby for $19.99. Love the Retro box and all of the great extras -- figures, clear stand, two ways to build it and so on.
Have fun Valerie!
I built that Revell B-25B kit in high school. I liked the flexible gun blisters, so mine functioned. My Mitchell was done up as the Marine version, a PBJ-1D. With high-and-tight Light Gull Grey on the undersurface, carried up the sides, and Intermediate Non-Specular Sea Blue higher up on the fuselage. Anti-glare Dark Sea Blue patches on the inboard engine nacelles, Sea Blue on the upper wings and top of fuselage. The light blue was also carried on the sides of both vertical stabilizers. Built LDG down, I used a .380 round as a nose weight. The drop tank from some unlucky 1/72 fighter was cannibalised for a starboard wing RADAR pod, mounted midway forward of the leading edge, between wing tip and nacelle. Vivid red-outlines US white-winged national recognition markings, as per 1943 regulations
Only the Nose Gunner survived. Some years later, I forgot about the model and put it up at my parents house. While I was overseas my kid nephews got into my stuff and thrashed it. The Gunner, a Top Turret Blister, and some 2-out-of -3 bladed props are all that's left of my PBJ-1D.
Your build brought me back a long ways, Great Job. I liked your adherence to Old School policy.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the story!
I couldn’t tell you how long it has been since I built a military aircraft kit... but after seeing the GREAT 👍 job that you did here, I have a bit of the “bug”!!! Thanks for another great video!
Thanks for watching!
An even later review. Finally found this because I wanted to see how a car guy handled a plane:
Just great it turns out! And seeing this gives me ideas.
What ever you do in modeling, enjoyment is the key. Enjoy doing your project, enjoy your results, and enjoy learning and what you want to do again or different next time. Last, enjoy sharing with a positive attitude. Thanks
It looks fantastic! To show you how old I am I built the original issue with the Doolittle Raider's marking only and the box art showing the B-25 taking off from the carrier. It was a fun build then and surprisingly the fit of most older kits was better than they are today. hanks for sharing this.
Thanks man!
Hats off to Atlantis. Brought two. PLus the B-24. Kits when I was a very young kid. Looking forward to the kits that about to released. Agai hats off to Atlantis.
love seeing your different kit reviews
Thanks, I like doing them!
@@hpiguy hope to see the revell plow truck or a tank
Hello Chris, I scored today, got my B-25 and the H-25 helicopter. Went to hobby lobby with coupon and they had Testors camo spray cans all colors on closeout, $1.49 per can, I bought them all, one Model master spray can 92 cents and the biggest deal was a can of Testors frosted glass .21 cents, has a ton of uses for dioramas. Going to make the Doolittle Raiders version and a yellow rescue helicopter, 1/48 scale so fits right in. I'm still working on my C-600 roll back, going to paint the frame now.
Enjoy Larry!
Nice to see the enthusiasm for vintage kits. Great job.
Bill
Thanks Bill!
The bottom gun turret was metal completely.Operated with a periscope. I hate saying it because nothing you do is even close to negativity. It is old but, gives a good static display of a cool looking plane. Super base though. Worth buying the kit just to get that base. Atlantis should do that base to sell separately. It is nice & high. Nice review. A favorite subject. I love viewing your work. Most of the builds are just awesome.
Thanks for the info!
I’m late making a comment but I’m happy to see you apply your skills to a different model genre. I remember your first few presentations - the old saying sh8ps all of which I have and built using your techniques. Great stuff.
If you dip the clear parts in Future Floor Polish the super glue will not fog the plastic. Great job.
Since I am an oldschool nonprecise
kinda guy this was right up my alley.
--- Also, as with most of your videos
I picked up some neat tricks ( great use
of cotton balls - simple yet effective).
Mod Podge,, Dollar Store items and
whoda thunk to use makeup ?!?!?
Great colors - turned out awesome.
Rock on!
Turned out great looking with the way the nose art came out. Good job
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Nice... you do a lot of building... one suggestion on this one would have been to paint the canopy framing with the fuselage color... the interior of the frames was interior / chromate green, but the exterior was fuselage color... it's pretty common on external framing to paint the interior color first, then the exterior color, so you if you can see inside the glass it's the right color inside, and on the outside, and it requires no more masking.... on this one you could paint the interior framing fuselage exterior color, then interior color.... just a little nitpick, but one that might be helpful.... you have fun, that's the main thing.... keep 'em coming... !
Thanks, didn't feel like masking that grid for a quick review build up so I did it the way you see.
@@hpiguy Your kit, your rules! Enjoy! Your videos are awesome
What a great fun build ! Something different from all our newer kits.
I'll be picking up one soon 😊
Hope you enjoy it!
@@hpiguy Oh, I really did !! 😊
Had to get this one after seeing you build it (which you make seem effortless due to your great skill). My dad and I built the whole series of WWII US fighter and bomber planes from Revell back in the late 60s and early 70s, including this one. It'll be nice to indulge in a nostalgia build of a kit that I once built as a boy, and all thanks to you and Atlantis. ;-)
Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy the nostalgia build for yourself!
I love your relaxed approach to model building.
You failed to mention this is the aircraft featured in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.
nice we need more of these kinds of builds armor and planes not just cars.....keep them coming
I'll build anything they send! Thanks!
Great content! Love to see old molds getting built!
Thanks!
Gorgeous, simply gorgeous.
Thanks Charlie!
A lot of details that makes it better. Good Job.
Thanks William!
Great looking kit Chris, turned out great, will be watching for next project. Rick 🤓
Thanks Rick!
great job on the Mitchell. got a B-17 group build i'm taking part in . so far this revel kit is working out great for the others in this build....no time limit for this one. I do have the Revell version of this kit on my shelf, been think of busting it out , but will have to wait a little longer .
Thanks, enjoy your build!
Great kit...I made one in the 60s...a true kid job but I loved it! Atlantis should be given KUDOS for making kits available at a reasonable price for anyone on a budget. Parents...get one for you sons AND daughters. YES! OOORAH...lol
Right on, totally agree!
Beautiful plane Chris
Thanks Charlie!
Looks ace👍I find it so interesting how realistic you make models look👍keep em comin😉👏👏👏👏😬
Thanks Barry!
Chris, nice kit reviews and builds, , the wingtip damage on the B25 is called . hanger rash :) . Keep up the good work
LOL, thanks!
As usual, superb historical explanation, build and highly detailed painting. Thanks, really like your videos. I’m always excited to watch and can’t wait for more 👍👍👍👍
Thank you Pete!
A salute to you and the Army Air Forces/ U S Air Force. Another fine job.
It just goes to show with just a little bit of time work and skill an old kit can still build up to a nice looking model. Keep'm coming!
Thanks Jon!
Really awesome build Chris! Way to bring to life an older kit that many of us had no idea even existed! Nice small compact bookshelf size, and it didn't look like it took that long to assemble! As a side note, if you build the Doolittle raider version, leave off the guns as the real ships didn't carry them to Japan, they were ditched to save weight so the planes could get off the carrier deck! :) Thanks also for the sea chanty music, it makes a Navy man like me swell with pride! Keep up the fantastic builds!!
Thanks bud!
Fantastical build 👌
Love the pure nostalgia clear stand, I remember those from my Revell kits of the early 60s. In one way it's a shame it's 1/64 because it will look odd displayed with other aircraft. But displayed seperately, like on a desk or in an office it will look great. Also it is marvellous for teaching beginners how to build aircraft. Well done Atlantis Models you get an 11/10 from me for that re-pop.
Thanks Andy!
I'm going to have to look for this kit, fun build, looks great Chris.😀👍👍
Enjoy!
nice build of the old kit, glad Atlantis reissued it
Thanks Craig!
Chris that’s a great job friend! I absolutely love it!!
Thank you again Tim!
Thank you for a great video! And I applaud you for being able to build these old kits and make them look nice.
Thanks Hisham!
Well actually, I love this build. Thanks for doing different things now and then, love the cars, but a change is nice.
Thanks!
That looks really nice ! Great job on it Chris
Thanks Charles!
It looks extremely professional!
Thank you!
Great video, I built this kit at the age of 12 or 13, thanx!!!
Very cool!
Great build Chris! Please do more airplanes sir. Thank you for bring us great videos and outstanding model building. As always best channel on TH-cam. Thanks again Chris.
Thanks Chris, I'll build what they send, hope to do many more!
Cool build Chris, the B-25 looks great!
Thanks!
Great build on the B-25 Mitchell 😀😀😀👍👍👍
Thank you!
Yeah, I know it is a cheap and basic kit but the belly turret was NOT clear glass, but the tail cone was. I built a couple of these. They were fun kits to build.
It's ok, mistakes happen. I never try to be an expert on anything.
The kit still rocks, like you said, and that's all that matters.
Great review! I really enjoyed it and a really nice build. You’ve inspired me to dig out my kit and start it today.
Thanks!
Great build and great tips!
Thanks Hilary!
Another great build! I really enjoy your videos! I have a b25 in the closet i bought years ago. I gotta get busy!
You should!
Love the build something different. Looks great
Thanks Robert!
Looks great! I've seen that model at Hobby Lobby.
Thanks Red!
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Thursday, 4 July, 2024)
This kit is roughly equivalent to S-gauge for model trains. One could place a late 1940s civilian passenger plane version somewhere in such a display.
Really great kit Chris it came out amazing. I think I saw this one in Hobby Lobby if I’m not mistaken.
Thanks Brian, yeah I've seen their stuff appearing there more and more.
That is amazing, really cool I have thought about building some plains. Keep up the great work and R.I.P.
Thanks Chopper!
Great video!
South africa near ct, 1957 the first revell kishady box i ss in a paint and hardware shop, dont know what happened to my b 25 but i still have the boxtop, mint condition, ,,the flying dragon,, i was 12 and hooked ever since,
Just got the kit from hobby lobby, thinking about making a piece of the USS Hornet CV-8 bow section as a 'Doolittle Raid' diorama.
Thank you, and thanks for watching the video and leaving a nice comment! Much appreciated!
Another awesome build my friend!! Always enjoy watching your videos.. :)
Thank you Cliff!
Great build! (In reality the B-25 never had a belly turret and had a tail gun, but who cares..still great play value!)
Point of Information, Friend. The B-25B model, as Col. Doolittle's group used, originally
did have a remote Twin .50 belly turret. It had no plexiglass, but a flat reflex viewer behind armor glass plate and was retractable and remotely operated. To save weight it was deleted on the Tokyo Mission. A broomstick in the clear tail cone acted as a decoy .50. With the J- model, North American moved the twin .50 mount forward, behind the cockpit, and added a manned twin .50 tail gun. The later type [subject of the Monagram B-25] deleted the dorsal turret. B-25Js had single .50 mounts on each side of the rear fuselage, like the B-17s.
One of my favorite bombers. I had the Matchbox 1/72. Great build.
Can u do a B17 next?...more power!!
Thanks for watching!
The "Memphis Belle"😀😀😀👍👍👍
@@michaelupton2310 ...in 1/48!
@@sonnyd.6777 Yep.. I've been doing model kits for 29 years now I still remember the very first model airplane kit that I built..it was a 1/48 scale revell MIG-29 fulcrum jet fighter.. I'm 42 years old now and I still enjoy building car, truck, jet airplane, and helicopter model kits 👍👍👍😀😀😀
@@michaelupton2310 im an armour modeler. But built a couple of 1/48 planes like, Me262, Skyhwak and Komet. I really want to build a B17 but no space to display😥
Great work on the old vintage b25. I am working on the revell 1/28 scale Sopwith camel. I sprayed the upper and lower wings in the correct colors by using Rust-Oleum 2x paints and let dry for about a week, then applied the decals, but when I sprayed the matte clear coat it cracked the paint. Any idea as to why it did that?.
Great build Chris, it must have took some flying skills to take off from a aircraft carrier brave pilots.✌✌
Thanks John, yeah, I'd miss every time like Top Gun the NES game!
Greetings from Germany. Just watched your Video as an Inspiration. I collect Greenlight 1:64 and now they made a nice Willys Jeep and a Sherman Tank will coming soon. Mostly i buy the Greenlights at a Onlineshop in the Netherlands, best prices, fast delivery and a huge actual Assortment in Modelcars of all scales and Brands. And he has this B-25 Bomber vor 25€. I dont do Modelkits and i was hot sure If i should buy it as a Display with the Jeep and Sherman Tank. Thanks for your Video, think i should buy the Kit
Is There ANYTHING YOU CAN'T Do And Have It Turn OUT AWESOME ??? LOL HAHAHA,,,,I Love Your Work Chris 🤗🤗, Have a Blessed Wknd Brother !!
Thanks a lot Gary!
Another great build - love when you do the box scale/entry level kits
Would love to see you do the 1/64 Lindberg “Nose Art” B-17
Do you think the Airfix 1/72 bomber re-supply kit would look out of place with a 1/64 plane? Close enough?
Take care and thank you!
Hmmm... sounds like you are describing items that stand next to each other in some craft store... If I am right that chain has right next to it Academy's B-17 in 72 scale, though decals aren't good :(
Thanks for watching James. I know nothing about the Airfix parts so I wouldn't be able to say yes or no.
Another great build! I’m hooked!
Do you ever “sign” your models on a hidden surface? I would always do that when I used to build. Was just reminded of it when you showed the unfinished fuselage interior.
Nope, but I've heard of people doing that. Thanks!
Great video just got into model kits it’s a lot fun love your videos very helpful
Thank you!
Beautiful! Kinda sad to see that the new Revell dissed it out 'cuz it's an old kit. I mean, it's clean, so, the molds must have been well kept, therefore, there was more or less of a reason to sell it IMO.
Just a question like this. If you had put the Tamiya black liner thing behind the green of your gel pen, would've it have darken the green color?
And I love Modelmaster's zinc cromate color. I wish I could find a green close to that color in spray paint to paint some cars that color.
The panel liner would have just ran around the edges of the raised lines. You could back it with a black marker but I wanted it green on both sides.
That looks great!
Thanks Steve!
hoping many model kits will be release in 1/64 scale. to fit with my 1/64 diecast and diorama
HEY job well done
Thank you and thanks for stopping by the channel and watching!
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Cool kit nice build
Thanks!
Dad use to say a B25 idling sounds like somebody dumped a 5 gallon bucket of nuts and bolts into a washing machine. I like the de-ice boots(shouldn't there be black strips on the leading edges of the prop blades?) and being a prop mechanic i would have to detail the props a little better( domes would have to be silver, hubs aluminum, orange oval simulating the ham stam sticker) but nice build looks like it was fun to do
You are welcome to build your kit to your personal level of detail. Enjoy.
@@hpiguy no disrespect intended to your build just thinking out loud, the make up thing was awesome
Good work
Thank you so much 😀
What? Rust-Oleum don't have an OD green? How dare they!
You're correct,the black on the leading edges were rubber bladders that could be pressurized,to crack off ice. Some even had them on prop blades on larger aircraft!
Thanks for the info!
Nice! I am just wrapping up mine build of this guy. When I was buying this kit I was thinking it would be a nice exercise in rescribing and gap filling but when I've opened the kit my first thought "tough luck!". Oh, well, used it as an exercise in weathering and marble pattern preshading.
PS: sometimes I think old Revell models are better than new ones (and probably were great for the time)...
PPS: What's your next project from Atlantis? NASA B-52 with X-15?
All depends on what they send. I've asked for the Allison Turbo Prop and the armor kits, hope they send them soon.
Love watching your videos! Wasn’t it Aurora that included an Earth like stand with all their kits? With a Decal also!
Thanks Joe!
No idea, I'm not much of a kit historian, I just pick stuff up here and there when others tell me.
nice!
Thanks Mouse!
Is there any way to make the landing gear removable, like to display it with or without landing gear by placing flat pieces of magnetic material on the contact points, or maybe double ended sticky tape?
What would you recommend?
They are held in by studs so that would be easy.
When you soak your model parts in Simple Green, is that straight or diluted with a bit of water?
Mixed with water, doesn't take much.
Check out my video on painting models with cheap spray cans, just search my home page. I go over all my steps. Thanks!
Very nice
Thanks!
Love the variation in models! How about the new reimagined Enterprise 1701 from discovery for a build? Show may not be my fav, i did like the updated Enterprise. Much better than the JJprise.
Thanks!
I've requested it three times now and @Round2Models has decided not to send it for review. I do not know why.
My USS Discovery review went over pretty well, was a fun kit.
Good morning Chris.
Grandson & I are new and building the revell kit…could you share the color codes of the colors you used on the interior? Much appreciated!!
My answer is do not worry about color codes. I don't.
Pick colors that look similar and go with that. The craft stores have massive paint selections, you'll find stuff that looks the part.
Enjoy the hobby and don't stress matching others or perfect color codes.
Thanks!
The wheel doors and struts are backwards on this version from what I have seen
Which variant of the North American Aviation B-25 Mitchell USAAF Medium Bomber is this, please?
I am checking my memory as to the official colours of the camouflage painting: Olive Drab over Neutral Grey?
I love this kit and everything about it.
BUT if you're the type of modeler that needs to know exact variants and minute details you'll want to grab a more modern kit as this is a 50+ year old kit and won't meet your exacting requirements.
Thanks!
@@hpiguy , some of the projects I envision would be in-flight, the landing gear up, the propellers turning, a full crew at their stations. I would place in sequence models in descending scales for a forced-perspective airborne diorama. I know a way to hide from view the stand, borrowing from motion picture production the concept and device of the Chapman crane.
For example, in the joint U.S. Navy-USAAF Tokyo Raid of April 1942, a 1:48th-scale kit of the B-25B (likely Accurate Miniatures), this Revell kit, a 1:72nd-scale kit, amongst others. And maybe that new 1:32nd-scale later variant, if reworking it is possible.
This old Revell model looks like it could serve as a -B with little effort. The crew I could make from S-gauge model railroad figurines.