Martin 167 Maryland
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This is the old Frog kit (F241), first released In 1973. The model I built was boxed by Ark Models. I actually started this near the end of 2023 but stopped when I was working on other builds at the time. After my recent Matchbox B-17 build was completed, I got back to work on the Martin Maryland.
The Martin Model 167 Maryland was an American light bomber that first flew in 1939. It saw action in World War II with France and the United Kingdom. None were used by the USAAF, but it was an important light bomber for France and the United Kingdom. For Martin, it also opened the doors for later builds, the Baltimore and important the B-26 Marauder.
The model is a simple kit to build, with very soft details, fine raised panel lines and very little details inside the cockpit and bombardier position. Here are some of the work I put into this build:
- Adding details in the cockpit and bombardier areas by scratch building the parts.
- Blended the seams and filled and smoothed out the gaps in the wing to body and tail plane areas.
- I noticed the main gear door covers were not fully enclosed so I added cut pieces of sheet styrene to make them enclosed. They also needed some reshaping and thinning down.
- On both cowlings I clean up the two halves mating joints and opening up the frontal area. I then scribed in the lines for the cowl flaps and then filed down the cowl flaps to represent them in the closed position.
- The engine nacelles lacked any details on the exhaust systems, so I drilled the holes, made and glued in the exhaust stacks.
- The bombardier's clear parts were a bit over-sized, here they were filed, sanded down and then polished.
- The propellers did not go on straight to the shaft, they needed some drilling out to make them fit better, the blades were also sanded down since they were a bit over-sized.
- Added torque links to the main gear's struts from cut pieces of stretched sprue.
- Decals came from other sources because the original Frog decals were out of register.
- The entire model was hand painted, the pre-shade process was started by using a black Sharpie black permanent markers, I used Tamiya's acrylic paints for the base coats, and the remaining coats of Dark Earth, Mid-stone and Azure Blue came from Vallejo acrylic paints.
All and all, this was an enjoyable build, it did take a bit longer to build but at the end I am happy to see a Martin Maryland displayed with my other builds.
