Douglas SBD Dauntless
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- 1/48 Accurate Miniatures SBD-3 Dauntless, USS Enterprise VB-6, flown by Lt. Cmdr. Richard Best
- Remembering Dick Best and the Battle of Midway, 4 June 1942
- Hasegawa 1/72 SBD-2 Dauntless @ Midway
- Italeri 1:48 Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless NZ5060, RNZAF Piva, April 1944
- Work-In-Progress: 1/32 Trumpeter SBD
- WIP: 6th and Final Update: Trumpeter 1/32 SBD-3 “Midway Variant”
Flyhawk Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless of LTJG Jack “Dusty” Kleiss
LTJG Jack “Dusty” Kleiss was a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot with Scouting Six flying from the USS Enterprise (CV-6). His first combat was during the raid on Kwajalein Atoll where he hit Japanese shore installations and [...]
SBD Dauntless in 1/144 – the second of three
SBD Dauntless from USS Lexington, November 1943. Another Brengun kit, using the photo etch details and vac-form canopy. Finished in MRP paints, Michael Harding oils and AK weathering pencils and powders.
Accurate Miniatures 1/48 SBD-1 Dauntless
The sublime Accurate Miniatures SBD kit was only marred by the decals that resisted to all solvents that I applied.
SBD3 Dauntless 1942, Flyhawk 1/72
Let me post a Flyhawk Dauntless. I am a Flyhawk devotee by nature, and they have brought us a kit that lives up to our expectations in aircraft modelling. I was amazed to learn that this was their first model aeroplane kit. The aircraft I [...]
1/72 Marine SBD-1 Dauntless
A couple of years ago I replaced my Airfix "Sail12" SBD-3 Dauntless (below) with a better Hasegawa kit.
Rather than leave the old kit sitting on the obsoletes shelf I repainted and redecaled it for 2-MB-1, the commander's [...]
1/72 SBD-5 Dauntless – VB-16, April 1944.
“White 35” was a SBD-5 assigned to VB-16 on the USS Lexington (CV-16) in April 1944. It was flown by LTJG George Blacken & RM Leo Boulanger.
I used a 1996 boxing of the Hasegawa SBD-5, which came with decals for White 45 of the [...]
Academy USMC SBD-1 "Pearl Harbor"
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 [...]
Trumpeter 1:32 Scale, Douglass SBD-5 "Dauntless"
First one for 2023...
Actually, I started this kit back in 2018, 2019, I think? Sat on the shelf for a bit while I moved onto other things.
Trumpeter has this reputation of either making really nice kits, or some real dogs. This one [...]
SBD-3 Dauntless (Flyhawk 1:72)
SBD was a scout and dive bomber aircraft produced by Douglas from mid-1940 to mid-1944. Scout Bomber Douglas was also known by the nickname Slow But Deadly and is famous by its actions against Japanese fleet at the Battle of Midway. The [...]
Trumpeter 1/32 SBD-1/2 Dauntless, kit # 02241
I started this Model on 4 June, 2022, the 80th anniversary of the battle of Midway. The Trumpeter kit offers two sets of markings, one for a pre-war SBD-1 of VMB-2 (Marine Bombing 2) and SBD-2 of VMSB-241. (Marine Scout Bombing 241). The [...]
