Accurate Miniatures' model kits
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Accurate Miniatures 48th SBD-3 Dauntless USN
AM's offering of the Dauntless was an enjoyable kit to build. Despite the many detailed bits in the cockpit throughout the kit, the parts assembly process was pretty much as the instructions described. This is the 3rd Am kit i have [...]
Accurate Miniatures' 1/48 scale Vought SB2U-1 Vindicator
Here's the Accurate Miniatures Vought SB2U-1 "Vindicator".
I started it in 2005, and when I laid down the natural metal finish (Alclad II) to replicate the silver-colored lacquer "dope" used on the fabric, it reacted [...]
148th scale Accurate Miniatures TBM Avenger
AM kits are wonderfull kits heavy detail and really good fits I did find some room for additional detail in the fuel tank access panel and added some PE seat belts drilled out the guns and exhaust tubes both of my uncles flew in these in [...]
1:48 Accurate Miniatures F3F-1
Here's my attempt at the 1:48 Accurate Miniatures Grumman F3F-1, and it's built straight from the box. The only thing I added was the antenna wires. The kit is a real jewel - any flaws are mine alone. Accurate Miniatures was my favorite [...]
1/48 Accurate Miniatures SBD-3...
This is the Accruate Miniatures SBD-3 Dauntless. It depicts B-16 from VB-3 USS Yorktown June 4, 1942 Battle of Midway piloted by Lt.jg Osborne Beeman Wiseman and gunner ARM3c Grant Ulysses Dawn..The kit was built straight from the box. [...]
Armee de l'Air A-24B – 1/48 Accurate Miniatures SBD-5 kit
An SBD with invasion stripes. Actually an A-24B, used by the Armee de l'Air during the battles for the French channel ports in 1944-45. Decals came from a European release of the kit, large tail wheel from the spares box.
TBF-1 Avenger (conversion of the 1/48 Accurate Miniatures kit)
Done back in 1998, using the KMC TBF-1 conversion to do an early-production TBF-1. The KMC wingfold consisted of the resin wing center section; The outer wing "hangs" on a piece of piano wire from the resin center section to [...]
Vought Chesapeake
One of the first SB2U-1 kits, with the godawful short-shot fuselages. I wanted to go "Yellow Wings" here but needed to take the viewer's eye away from the filling of the fuselage "canyons", so decided to do a [...]
Helldivers! SB2C-1, two SB2C-4s, SB2C-5
All from the Monogram kit.
The SB2C-1 is the Accurate Miniatures release, corrected to be an SB2C-1 (what they provided was kinda/sorta an SB2C-1C), with 4 50s in the wings, the rear glass in the pilot's canopy, correct 3 blade prop, [...]
A-M 1/48 SBD-5 Dauntless
Another OOB build of one of the best OOB kits ever released, the Accurate Miniatures SBD-5 Dauntless in the markings of VMSB-232 during the Central Pacific Campaign. Following the successful taking of Kwajalein in the Marshalls, the other [...]
