Curtiss SB2C Helldiver
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Matchbox Replacements: 1/72 Curtiss SB2C-4E Helldiver & Vought F4U-1D Corsair
These two new completions - an AMT SB2C-4 Helldiver and a Hasegawa F4U-4 Corsair - will be significant upgrades from the Matchbox models they replace in the display cabinet. The AMT Helldiver kit is actually older than the Matchbox - it [...]
Ready for Take Off. Academy 1/72 SB2C-4 Helldiver with Photo etch
In January this year I found myself under forced quarantine due to a virus case within the family, thus I decided to start working on this gem of a kit, I have been putting it off for some time due to the fact that I wasn't very confident [...]
Helldiver Conversion
The inspiration for this project was the photo of torpedoes being loaded onto Helldivers of VB-2 on the U.S.S. Hornet. The aircraft in the photo is the SB2C-1C version of the Helldiver, and since I had a Pro-Modeler SB2C-4 kit that I had [...]
SB2C-4 HELLDIVER by PRO-MODELER.
A modeler wrote and ask why I brush on a "water-thin black wash?"
My answer was to show all the imperfections that are in the plastic such as unfilled panel lines, sink marks and scratches left by my metal files and rough [...]
Helldiver Down
As some of you know or you will learn, I am a big SB2C Helldiver fan. A major work is in the planning stage for a Dio with several planes.
Why am I such a fan? I am a member of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) based in Dallas Texas, [...]
World War II Dive Bombers
For several years I had a goal of building 1/48 scale models of all the Navy dive-bombers that saw action in WWII. I'd been fascinated with dive-bombing ever since I read Walter Lord's book "Incredible Victory", and saw the [...]
SB2C-4 Helldiver, 1/72 Academy
Here's Academy's 1/72 Helldiver. Recently Academy re-released this kit with Cartograf decal and diver flap PE part. and the kit itself is already top notch quality.
PE part for 72th scale was first time challenge for me. and it was hard [...]
Curtiss Helldiver SBC-4,1/72 Heller
I was reluctant in building this, knowing that I wouldn't be able to rig it, my manual dexterity not what it used to be. but It's been in my stash for so long. It's done up as in the overall light grey of 1941, of a craft from Scouting [...]
1/48 Revell (ProModeller) SB2C-4 Hellldiver
Hello Folks
My latest completed build. This time last of US Navy dive bomber SB2C-4 Helldiver from Revell. The kit goes together rather well the only problem I have was installing resin replacement wheel bays. I have some gaps to fill [...]
Video: SB2C-5 HELLDIVER by SPECIAL HOBBY (video preview)
1/72 Special Hobby SB2C-5 Helldiver “The Final Version”.
The final production version of the famous Helldiver dive bomber was the SB2C-5 which was able to carry much more fuel, featured a paddle-bladed propeller without a spinner, [...]
