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SB2U-3 Vindicator (1/48 Scale, Academy Hobby): Review & Advice Needed on my Second Model Kit

by Derek Bowen on February 15, 2022 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

This Vindicator represents one of the USMC planes stationed at Midway Island that participated in the Battle of Midway. The white "stripes" are medical tape the crews used to patch the canvas exterior and the grey lines around [...]

World War II Dive Bombers

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

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 [...]

1/48 SB2U-1 Vindicator (Academy)

by Won-hui Lee on June 16, 2018 · in Aviation · 15 ≡

This genre is unfamiliar to me and it is very difficult for me. the manual was so difficult that it was even harder.

Captain Richard E. Fleming,USMC, VMSB-241, Accurate Miniatures, Vought SB2U-3 Vindicator

by Chuck A. Villanueva on June 8, 2017 · in Aviation · 23 ≡

I saved this for last of my builds for Midway. A Marine first and foremost, Capt Fleming was fully aware of the limitations of the Vindicator, facing a far more superior force in the Japanese Navy. Faster planes, ships bristling with [...]

Vought Chesapeake

by Tom Cleaver on January 10, 2013 · in Aviation · 4 ≡

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 [...]