[Swampfox]

After being taken hostage by the holidays, I'm finally back on track and will be starting this build thread for the recent release announcement of the B-24J “The Dragon and His Tail” by designer John Dell.

I'd like to give a special thanks to John for asking me to do this test build for him, it was great fun and an honor to be asked to do the build. I only had pieces, no instructions or diagrams to start with, but if I encountered a problem, John would supply enough of a hint to get to the next step.

I had never been a big B-24 fan, but have always found the art that was painted on these aircraft to be intriguing. I've learned a lot about the B-24 and it's history in general, none more so than “The Dragon”.

I had initially planned on my just adding this build onto his original Kit Announcement Thread but decided that it made more sense to start a whole new thread here, in the Model Builds-Aviation section.

I took over 850 pictures of this build and I've found that I still missed photographing some steps!! I've cut it down to about 200 images that I plan to post here. If you'd like to see a step from a different view, please ask. If I have another view, I'll post it.

I hope you all get something useful out of this build thread, ask questions, make comments or suggestions on how I could have done something different. I'm here to learn too.

I'll try to make at least one posting a day, please be patient. I'll do my best.

Enjoy,
Swampfox