PB4Y-2 Privateer

Instructions and decals provide three (3) different plane options.
I choose to make the U.S. Navy version from Palawan, Philippines, May 1945. 

Note the side machine guns. Given you need to install these before you mount the fuselage section, they are fragile. This was true of the front and rear turrets too. I was able to break them off and had to replace each using a standard paper clip cut to length, super glued in place, and painted with gun metal. As these were metal to start, just too bright, I gave them a coat of MrMetal Primer-R before painting. 

Entire plane was painted using an airbrush and Vallejo paints. 

Painting the cockpit canopy and the turrets was accomplished with Tamiya tape carefully cut in while in place along with Liquid Mask by Ammo. Canopy was attached with Micro Kristal Klear from Microscale. 

To ensure it sat on the front wheel correctly I used pennies to weigh the nose down. I created a place behind the cockpit bulkhead with sprue and super glued the pennies in after taping the together. Obtained penny weight from online and calculated the number of pennies required; Matchbox did indicate what the weight should be, so that worked out OK. 

This turret was a challenge to assemble as it consisted of 7 parts.
The front and rear turrets were a challenge to paint as they had to be taped first, then the two colors were applied. 

This turret was a challenge to assemble as it consisted of 6 parts. Just trying to hold these in place while gluing was not easy. 

I only highlighted the panel lines on the bottom of the plane. 

Given the age of these decals, I coated them with Liquid Decal Film from Microscale. 

Instructions and decals provide two (2) other plane options:
RY3 Liberator (C.Mk.IX) R.C.A.F. "Rockcliffe Ice Wagon', 1948 or the
Privateer Aero Navale, Bizerte, Tunisia, April 1958.