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Curtiss SB2C Helldiver

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Ready for Take Off. Academy 1/72 SB2C-4 Helldiver with Photo etch

by Christopher Rene Ellul on September 6, 2021 · in Diorama — 22 Comments

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

by Robert Knaack on September 2, 2020 · in Aviation — 16 Comments

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 [...]

Helldiver Down

by James B Robinson on August 15, 2019 · in Photo Collections — 20 Comments

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

by Robert Knaack on April 11, 2019 · in Aviation — 19 Comments

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

by Hongseob CHOI on June 25, 2018 · in Aviation — 8 Comments

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

by Robert Royes on March 9, 2018 · in Aviation — 16 Comments

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

by Michal Walusz on December 28, 2017 · in Aviation — 17 Comments

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)

by iModeler Youtube Picks on September 10, 2017 · in Aviation

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, [...]

1/48 Pro Modeler SB2C-4 Curtiss Helldiver VB-83, USS Essex, April 1945

by Louis Gardner on January 27, 2017 · in Aviation — 47 Comments

This one is hot off the work bench. It's number two for the year, but I started it last year. I literally just finished it less than an hour or so ago... I have been posting updates with the build progress here on Imodeler. I would [...]

1/48 SB2C-4 Helldiver

by John Healy on June 16, 2016 · in Aviation — 36 Comments

Another one I never posted from a few years back. This is the Revellogram Promodeler kit from the late 90s. The decals were terrible and yellowed, so I cobbled together spares to model a USS Bunker Hill Helldiver. I painted it with [...]