REVELL Kit.No.H-285:380, North American B-25 B/C, 1/48, Vintage 1976


Revell Inc., made in Venice, CA., printing by Revell, Decal set from Revell.   This kit of the North American B-25B/C is the 1976 rebox, box art and decal change of the initial tooling release of the 1968 kit.   This kit was actually purchased in 1977 and the kit went on to be released again by Revell in 1993.   This is kit has the box art of the completed plastic model, depicting the Doolittle Raider Air Attack on Tokyo by Doolittle Raider by tail number 02344. 

  • 118 piece Plastic Model Kit in brown olive drab and clear parts for the canopies, turrets and windows
  • Box Condition: Bright in Good condition, with a couple of box side indentations and patches.
  • MIB Kit inventoried against instructions 100% complete with all parts still on sprues, decals and instructions are new. 
  • The kit has not been started
  • Model size:  Wingspan 17 in. x Length 13 in.
  • Non-smoker home.

Kit includes 3 crew figures, detailed optional position landing gear, rotating propellers, four 500 lb. bombs, optional position bomb bay doors, movable and retractable lower turret  of the B-25C or can this turret area be built with a smooth bottom skin instead of the lower turret as on a B-25B.  The kit contains detailed Wright cyclone Engines with removable engine cowlings, authentic skin details of  fine tooling details of wing rib lines, control surfaces, access panels, air-frame lines, and access cover details.

As noted above, the kit was released to depict the B-25B version of the Doolittle raiders which was absent the lower turret, but the kit also contains the additional components of the B-25C which has this retractable aft lower fuselage turret, a top navigator bubble and a 50cal gun in the nose instead of a 30 cal. The kit also contains decals for the B-25C in a 82nd Bomb Group operating in North Africa.

( Courtesy note: The Bomber Ray Ban sunglasses  and dime are not part of the purchase, they are there for providing scale to the pictures.) 

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