Affirmative, already glued a couple of weights under the cockpit floor.
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Markings are on - the operation Thursday lines were difficult, but not as bad as I expected.
Next a coat of varnish and then weathering.
More to follow 
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Gonzalo,
Looks very good! Hope you’re enjoying the build. Just a heads up, protect the nose gear. Take some cardboard and fashion it to keep you from breaking it. From my experience the nose gear will most likely get broken while cleaning up the seams. Hopefully not, be careful and patient. Still think it’s the best B-25J in 1/48th out there. I know that I had a blast building it, enjoy!
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Thanks for the advise!!! 
Glad that worked out. I haven’t gotten around to it yet as I’m still struggling with the weight. Thought I had it till I tried with the rudders fitted and it tipped back again!
One good thing about the strafers, you can easily hide plenty in the nose!
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On my bench back to working on the B25 interior… And added a little something to the .50 's
Glued the cockpit and bombbay into place…
Found pictures of how the machine gun belts were running from the ammo boxes to the guns… meant I already had to add the side guns too…
Will have to connect the gunbelts for the rear guns after joining the fuselage halves…
No idea how much of all this will remain visible after closing the fuselage… 
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Nice kit. I wish Quickboost would make enlarged air inlets for it.
Beautiful subtle surface weathering, Bert! Looks awesome!
I am calling this one done. Matchbox B-25 in Operation Thursday markings.
It has been magnetized so it can go on a display base with my P-51A also in Operation Thursday markings and a future build of a P-47 razorback on the display as well.
The 12,7mm waist and top gun turret gun barrels were insanely long. I have adjusted the length and feel I hit it right.
Looking forward to see more builds in this campaign
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Great finish on that old and simple kit, you really did some great work on it!
I still have that Matchbox kit waiting, hope it will look something like yours…
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That looks great!
This is one of few Matchbox kits I’ve never tried.
I’ve not yet managed to solve the problem with weight. I might try and get engines together this week and see if they add enough weight forward to stop it tipping. It sits great until I dry fit the rudders. I’m growing a little concerned though that too much weight is going to break the nose gear!
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How about adding some weight into the engines?
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Thanks for the comments, Bert and Stephen! Much appreciated.
Stephen, have you placed the weight as far into the nose as you get?
Otherwise engines as pointed out by Bert.
I’ve got weight in the nose gear bay, behind the instrument panel, under the bombardiers seat, in the forward section of the engine nacelles and some behind the cooling gills. Not small pieces either, but big fishing weights. It’s very nose heavy. It balances out fine until the fins go on. And that’s not taking into account the tail gunners parts either which will probably add a gram or two more.
I do wonder if maybe some flat pieces in the crawl space above the Bombay will help. It’s the only thing holding up the build now.
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