After seeing some detail shots, I ended up buying two of Yao's Studio's 1/144th B-25J 3D printed model kits. I was curious to see what the overall shape of the kit looked like so one thing led to another and the model practically built itself!
All I can say is WOW! What an improvement! It blows the Crown / Minicraft kit out of the water. It is a beautiful looking model. The kit can be bought here:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/166157020562?hash=item26afbaed92:g:gbsAAOSw3wlkgU5mHere is the major pieces once freed from there thin pain in the ass plastic cage! The fidelity is unreal. In my excited haste, I accidently cut off the thin wire antennas near the nose and one side blister gun. Doh! I replaced the gun and will do the same for the antenna (along with all the other modern antennas) at the end of the build. I did end up breaking one of the props as I tried to cut it loose. Overall I'm not a fan of the props as I dont think they have the right shape. I'm going to try and work on one to see if I can fix the angles, or I might just replace it with a Cobra B-25 prop.

I started gluing the engines on the nacelles / wings, and then the wings to the fuselage./ The rear stabs to the fuselage, and then the tails. I gotta' admit, it feels almost like you're cheating, with little to no gluing, filling, sanding, swearing, and no two halves of anything to put together!

As you can see, the shape of this thing is just gorgeous. Finally, a really nice B-25 model in 1/144th scale. Enough to make me weep! The canopies have just been placed.

Once again due to my excitement, I didn't put down a primer or anything and just shot it aluminum silver! I already knew what B-25 to finish her as.

I bought a set of Panchito decals from Draw Decals awhile ago and finally had a decent model to put them on! Decals here:
https://www.drawdecal.com/product/132-aoepanchitoa-b-25j/I decided to swap out the stars with nicer ones from a microscale sheet. I also used some really old red stripe decals for the tail and wouldn't you know it, they came pretty nice! The nose art, tail number, etc are from the set. Have a few more little ones to add.

And a detail shot of the nose and nose art. I changed the color of the anti glare panels to that more colorful non regulation green as per the real one flying around today.

And of course the $64,0000.00 question... What to do about the glass? Well I think I'm going to give this one a shot and use the old tried and true Krystal Clear. My father swears by it, and has used it on numerous projects with decent success. So I might give him the top turret to start out with and see what he can do. It's nice to be able to have access to alot of the interior to try and detail it or at least paint it. If the motivation stays there and keeps feeding my desire to see this thing in one piece, I hope to get it done this week. Thanks for looking!