I have seen the Trumpeter 1/32 TBD-1 Devastator - Good News

Was up at the LHS this afternoon and they had one of the new Trumpeter 1/32 TBD-1 Devastator kits.

Yes! Thirty years of "coming soon" has arrived! It's no longer vaporware. It's real.

So how is it?

It's like this: 20 years ago Trumpeter - who was under a lot of criticism for the accuracy of their kits - released the SBD-2, SBD-3 and SBD-5 Dauntless kits. They were perfect. That's because Trumpeter made the genius decision to take the Accurate Miniatures Dauntless kits - the best kits of the Dauntless series available - and upsize them. Those kits are as good as the A-M originals.

Trumpeter did it again with this kit. They have upsized and added additional excellent surface detail to the superb Great Wall Hobby 1/48 Devastator.

I'm just in the process of finishing one of the VT-8 at Midway release kits from Great Wall, so I am as familiar with that kit as I was with the Accurate Minitaures SBDs when the Trumpeter kits came out. This kit is an upsize of the Great Wall kit.

And that's good news if you - like me - have been wishing this kit would materialize in the real plastic.

Buy. In. Confidence.

Mine is on the way from Squadron with their great pre-release deal that includes a decal sheet from Gold Medal Models that provides markings for every TBD squadron - pre-war and wartime.

Whoopee!