Airfix PBJ-1 USMC 1/72 Scale | Full Build video 

As someone who's been painting tabletop minis for about 5yrs now and who is now branching out to historical models, this is amazing. I've been looking at getting a B-25 model, this sold me on this one

You have the best Airfix B-25 build I have yet to find. I have watched it several times while I am building my own.

I love peanut butter and jelly

I had no trouble putting the fusalage halves together. This kit was a joy to build.

I really liked your style of narration. Well explained and enjoyable to watch

I like your honesty that sometimes your get alittle ahead of yourself and that we shouldnt get frustrated when we do the same its not the end of the project just stop and see how we can rectify the situation like you do

Always enjoy watching your builds this one turned out really really well, love the B-25 in the blue tri-color scheme! I have this kit but haven't built it yet, excellent video, thanks for pointing certain things out like painting the wings separately and adding them toward the end of the build 👍

My father was a member of VMB413, the Marine Corps very first bomber squadron. They outfitted their PBJs with radar, allowing them to fly night bombing missions against the Japanese in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese nicknamed them "The Flying Nightmares". There is a memorial to the squadron in the library at Quantico Marine Base that features a model not unlike what you have built.

Beautiful kit and a great job as always. Next time you have those large gaps try using some stretched sprue and Tamiya extra thin cement. Nice thing is you are basically welding the two parts together instead of just filling the gap. You can soften the sprue with the glue and push it into the gap and flatten it out, and finishes well with a little sanding.

Thank you for sharing this beautiful model build. This is a kit which I am very keen to build in a couple of different schemes. One will be "Desert Warrior" from the 81st BS 12th BG 9th AF and the other will be in R.A.F service. I have built a couple of B-25s' in the past in 1/48. The first was the great Monogram B-25J and the second was the troublesome Accurate Miniatures B-25D. I look forward to seeing what you build in the future.

Great build Brett and thanks for the shout out yet again!!❤

really good job with the paint!

Overall, an excellent job. This kit must be one of the newer offerings from Airfix, because the detail and the parts breakdown are visibly much better to what I recall from my younger days of their kits. You note in you video that you build the model as a USMC PBJ, using the U.S. Navy designation for the North American B-25C Mitchell USAAF Medium Bomber, and you do so to offer you a different paint scheme than the monotony of the USAAF’s olive drab over neutral grey. I personally like this for the very same reason. At 16:59 and 37:37, you mention the issue of the model being a tail-sitter (despite the aircraft having a tricycle landing gear). I recall the actual B-25 could, as well; and that the ground crews used a stout, low stepladder to set under the fuselage round the point where the ventral surface aft of the wing angles up slightly. I plan to use this kit for a couple of my forced perspective dioramas. One will depict a half-dozen or so B-25 Mitchell Bombers--these could be USMC PBJs--flying low over the South Pacific on a bombing run toward a convoy of IJN transport ships. I would like to include the HK Models 1:32nd-scale plastic model kit of the North American B-25J Mitchell USAAF Medium Bomber; however, this may require rather extensive modification to backdate it to a -B, -C, or -D. Alternately, I would have to update the Airfix kit to represent a later B-25 variant. Historical accuracy is of critical importance here. Did the Navy or the Marines employ such later versions of that aircraft? Another project would dramatise LCol Jimmy Doolittle leading his sixteen B-25Bs launching off the flight deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8) U.S. Navy Yorktown-class Aircraft Carrier--using Trumpeter’s 1:200th-scale kit of the ship (Stock No. 62001) as the backdrop. This would require altering the HK Models 1:32nd-scale kit to the earlier form; would you know what these would require? Accurate Miniatures made an excellent B-25B replica in 1:48th-scale, addressing that issue. This Airfix model you have in your build video would serve in the queue, as well. Would you know if it would require any changes to make it a B-25B?

Looks good. Pilot looks like he's AAC pilot in Europe. No one's wearing leather jacket with fleece in the Pacific. Either way, it all looks good.

Great build. I was lucky enough to tour a real b-25 and all of the interior was the usaaf cockpit green. It was interesting hearing about the different cockpit color.

Great job mate! I like so much the weathering on the top of wings 🤩

Agrees showing your mistakes will save anyone who’s doing this build and sees your video first from making the same ones, I don’t know about you but I often get inspired by these videos to do similar builds.

Great work as always 👏

Great model & what a cool looking aircraft 👍

I like it. It’s nice little build & I would be proud to have it in my fleet. Nice job!

Just watching it now. Glad you sorted the logo out in Corner perfect 😊

In my opinion it looks great too, and the newly accessed island runway, greatly appreciated how you show how to recover from mistakesTHANK YOU for POSTING the Build and Painting etc.👍

Beautiful build

Looks very good, USMC colours are very nice. Result is great. All the best for You! ;)

Another great model. Interesting subject. Sharing your mistakes is very valuable. Always something to learn. And heck, if an experienced, talented modeler such as you hits a bump in the road... Sharing that with us scrubs may help us to avoid a canyon in the road. :) As always, thanks for presenting your work!

wow, amazing aircraft model

Man that looks great 😊😊

The PBY aka B-25, turned out absolutely fantastic, you certainly have done a fantastic job, congratulations, best regards from Australia

Perfect build 👍👍👍

Great job!

nice build - one "tip" that works sometimes for tailsitters - if only some weight is missing - is to glue a block behind main wheels (looks better if you place one infront fo those) so that it can not swing back so easily - it was enough on my F7F ;-)

Nice build of the pbj.i work with enamels so I use water colors for weathering most of the time.with a little practice you will find out that you can blend the water colors on flats the way you want them.the key is a damp small paint brush and paper towel to wipe excess off the brush.i think you will like the results.one thing to remember if working in acrylics allow 48 hrs to fully cure......

nice build. I use modellers world oil washes directly over acrylic paint and never have any issues I had with enamel washes.

Absolutely gorgeous build! One tiny issue for future builds: swap parts D32 and D33, so that the trim tab actuators are on top of the horizontal stabilizers instead of the bottom. After I botched my Doolittle Raider, I looked at a whole lot of WWII images, and it became clear that every version from the earliest -Bs to the final -Js had the actuators on the dorsal side. Interestingly enough, the box art for the North American Mitchell Mk.II version is a bottom up painting, and the trim tab actuators are portrayed as precisely where they should be on a production machine; i.e., not on the bottom! LOL But still, a beautiful build!

Francamente, me gusta tu trabajo, te sigo

Excellent model again despite the troubles you had during the build. I've been building for over 50 years, and i dont think I've got one model perfect yet! Im not 100 percent sure, but I believe dull dark green and bronze green paints were designated for flight crew areas only. Interior green, zinc chromate, or unpainted aluminum for the rest of the aircraft areas.

Hallo mr.hammer!boy!thats a decent job and an outstanding piece of art.i love watching you increasing your skills.and i like listen your continueing narration.with sticky greetings. Your modellmate and friend in sprues. Christian

Espetacular 🌟

The company that does the White Metal parts for Nose Weights for this kit as well as other kits is called Scale Aircraft Conversions or SAC.

Very good job¡¡¡

very nice

Very nice......she really does look the part 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻 I suppose, if they were all 'shake & bake', we'd all soon get bored......

Hasegawas' 1/72 B25's are awesome. I have the H model and it looks very beautiful. Fine surface detail with beautiful rivets. Just need to get some nice resin engines and maybe wheels (the kit wheels are good but there's that seam from the halves). Highly recommend it.

Great result as usual. PBJs are such cool aircraft. How do we obtain more information out future group builds on Discord? I've joined a few servers, but frankly I'm quite lost when it comes to that platform.

That's good

Another great build, think you put one of the cockpit seats in wrong though.

Beautiful build, thanks for sharing! The Pacific scheme really suits the B-25, one of my favourites and a bit rare to see a Mitchell model painted like that. One thing that bugs me though, what's with the co-pilot's seat? Was it shorter than the pilot's seat in the PBJs? I don't think that's the case in regular B-25s. Or could it be that it is placed upside-down in the cockpit? Sorry if I am wrong or if it is a silly question, I just noticed it when you were finishing the cockpit and then again after the painting when you removed the canopy to clear up the dust.

Wonderful build, Love the B25s Question though: Why is the co-pilot seat upside dw?

A work of art...congratulations! Please what is the specific name of this blue color at the top of the kit and the manufacturer of this paint? Thanks.

素晴らしいです。ありがとう

37:20 bether to saf it as to los it :) grait model build alweys enjo it. !

From England, better than pretty good sir. There is something about the B25 that has been occupying my mind for some time. I hope to try one representing the Doolittle Raid at some time (but I'm not getting any younger and I have too many others to "have a go" at). Regarding the "foggy" nose glass, I did the same on an ICM Do17z which I made heavy weather of and so in making it a "dirty" plane I allowed myself to think that after a particularly hazardous raid the gunner was having a well earned cigarette! Really nice build again sir.

I also use sifted dirt for ground cover. I would suggest you stick it in the oven first to kill off any mold, etc., that might rear its head later.

Testors square bottle Zinc Chromate Yellow is a great color for life vests.

Great build as usual, strangely you have the copilots seat upside down tho??

Peanut butter jelly time. Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat!

Sweeeet build

Do you water down your Solvaset? Any time I’ve used it if I were to apply it like that he decals would dissolve and possibly even the paint, even after varnished.

A really nice build, always enjoys your videos, however I don't see any Peanut Butter & Jelly isn't that a PBJ?😁

That paint job looks ace, too bad about the kit though, really makes you want to take a break from the hobby having suffered through a bad kit.

Obviously airbrushing the metallic primer will look better is it worth trying to brush paint the same parts..please dont tell me try it and see because thats right where im at👍

What’s the link to your discord?

I really, really hate to be “that guy”, but I have to point out a fairly large omission which anybody else building a PBJ-1D might want to address. The Corps fabricated their own particular tail gun position for these early model Mitchell’s and they’re pretty much universal all throughout the photo record. It is NOTHING like the later factory unit which came along with the H and J series; the outline is completely different, it is totally open on the aft end and shipped only a single Ma Duce on a typical Marine type jury rigged mount. (They never let us have have any nice stuff you know.). There’s no record NA ever adopted the Corps’ design, and it doesn’t show up on any B-25/PBJ version other than the -1D’s flown by the VMB squadrons. The configuration is a bee-ouch to model too; there’s no a’market to address it and the only method I have found is to vacuform a scratch built part and do a lot of filling and sanding. Again, sorry to be picky; the model is beautiful otherwise, and I always enjoy your super work.😅

PBJ had glazed nose removed and extra 8x50 cal MGs added to that section instead, or 4x50 cal and 75mm gun. Not PBJ ground pound version? Where is the radar then? Edit: Looks nice, but this is not PBJ.