At Thunder over Michigan this summer I treated myself to a flight on the Colling's Foundation's Witchcraft. Awesome experience! It definitely deepened my interest in the B-24.
I had an old Monogram B-24 kit stashed away that I picked up on Ebay a few years ago, and I thought what better scheme to do it in than Witchcraft? A quick search turned up Mike Grant Decals in Canada sells a Witchcraft set.
When I opened up my kit I found that somewhere along the way the entire sprue of clear parts had been lost or hijacked. Always check your Ebay purchases when they come! This meant I had no cockpit glass, chin glass, turrets, or windows.
Most WIXers will know that Colling's Witchcraft is painted in the markings of a B-24H that flew 130 missions in Europe. The Monogram kit is a J model, as is the Collings bird, and I was originally content with building my kit as a J. Then since I ended up not having any clear parts I picked up a Koster B-24H conversion kit. The kit came with a Ford-built H model nose, pilot's and copilot's extra armor plate, white metal guns, resin turrets, and clear parts for the entire model.
So I hacked off the nose of a perfectly good kit!
The Koster kit was great. I'm not that experienced with vacuform and I had no trouble with it. Also, the Monogram turrets have seams in a horrible spot in the middle of the turrets, the Koster turrets have their seams in the scale locations.
Some resin engines were a huge improvement over the kit's.
The parts that make up the Koster nose turret.
True Details resin wheels with the correct tread pattern.
Two months worth of work. I'm far from a professional modeler but it didn't turn out too bad for something that I built.
