Curtiss SB2C Helldiver
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1/48 Pro Modeler SB2C-4 Curtiss Helldiver VB-83, USS Essex, April 1945
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
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 [...]
SB2C-4 Helldiver
Well this is my just finished 1/48 scale Revell Pro-Modeler SB2C-4 Helldiver, in the colors and markings of VB-84, U.S.S. Bunker Hill, 1945.
I read that the Helldiver was not universally loved by those who used it, but I imagine this big [...]
SB2C-4 Helldiver Academy 1/72 kit
It has been a while since I have posted and I have finally finished a kit to offer. My two WIP albums haven't changed but I did finish my first aircraft kit since childhood and thought I would put it up to show my highs and lows and open [...]
Promodeller 1/48 SB2C Helldiver w/Wolfpack wingfold
promodeller 1997 vintage...the decals exploded upon impact with the water so i cobbled them from the the stash...didn't have too many white codes so i stole them from a Korean war corsair...the wing fold went very smooth...had it done in [...]
1/48 Pro Modeler VB-83 Curtis SB2C-4 Helldiver
Inspired by Tom's posting the other day of an "Essex" Helldiver, here's mine from VB83.
I built this one basically OOB with some minor scratch built additions to the cockpit. Construction was simple and straight-forward, I was [...]
1/72 Cyber Hobby SB2C3 Helldiver
Just finished this. The kit looked lovely in the box, especially the interior, but was plagued by poor instructions, ill fitting parts (dive brakes, open canopy). The engine cylinders are configured wrong. 2 of the canopy pieces snapped in [...]
