Dive Bomber Database

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Martin BM-1/2 Scratch-build

by Robert Knaack on February 19, 2025 · in Aviation · 38 ≡

Five years ago, after I’d completed building the VacWings O2U Corsair kit, I swore that I would never build another vacu-form biplane, because it was just too frustrating getting that top wing aligned properly on homemade wing struts. [...]

Academy/Accurate Miniatures USMC SBD-1

by Greg Fabian on September 2, 2023 · in Aviation · 30 ≡

This is my interpretation of the Douglas SBD-1 Dauntless by Accurate Miniatures/Academy. I really liked this kit a lot, mainly because it fit together well and had an almost extreme amount of interior detail (a lot of which I can't see, [...]

Academy USMC SBD-1 "Pearl Harbor"

by Robert Knaack on May 1, 2023 · in Aviation · 28 ≡

After spending three months on the card stock Russian tank, I decided I wanted to take a break and do something simple and easy. This Academy kit fit the bill nicely and accomplished two things: a) I finally upgraded my dive-bomber [...]

1/32 Revell Ju-87B Stuka

by Jay Mitchell on September 22, 2021 · in Aviation · 33 ≡

This was built as part of the Desert Air War group build . There are several great builds going on in that group . There are many interpretations of this particular aircraft. After much looking around the internet and looking at photos of [...]

The Ultimate Dive Bomber

by Robert Knaack on June 3, 2021 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

In this article I must confess to a bit of profound ignorance. Up until recently I was under the mistaken belief that the dive-bomber concept was obsolete by the end of WWII. I thought that the rise of powerful fighter aircraft carrying [...]

SBD-4 Dauntless from Hasegawa in 1/72 scale with cardboard carrier island

by Andreas Fey on May 17, 2020 · in Aviation · 34 ≡

SBD-4 Dauntless from Hasegawa in 1/72 Today I want to show you my SBD-4 Dauntless from Hasegawa in 1/72 scale. In order to give my model a beautiful environment, I modeled the island of an aircraft carrier out of cardboard. The island [...]

A-36 Apache dive bomber! Now is that a Mustang or not?

by Roland Sachsenhofer on May 3, 2020 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

At first sight the A-36 Apache looks like a representative of those early P-51 Mustang variants that were still powered by the American Allison engine. I would like to claim that even a second look will only produce few doubts to have a [...]

A Real "SAAB" Story

by Philip A. Stelzer on April 23, 2020 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

Greetings from Canada! This is my latest project , the SAAB B-17-BS Maritime reconnaisance floatplane. It was originally conceived as a dive bomber and I have always liked it's good looks and have regarded it as a Nordic [...]

Boeing F4B-4 dive-bomber

by Robert Knaack on March 23, 2020 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

Built from 1928-1935, with tube steel fuselage, wood wings with fabric covering, ailerons of corrugated aluminum. The US Navy began heavily investigating the tactic of dive bombing in the 1920s and 1930s. Of aircraft in current service at [...]

More Dive Bombers

by Robert Knaack on November 3, 2019 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

In a previous article, I presented my collection of 1/48 model dive-bombers that served with the Navy in WWII (SBC-3, SB2U, SBD-3, SB2C-3). In this article, I go back in time from there to the mid-1930s to present two aircraft that were [...]