Douglas SBD Dauntless
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Work-In-Progress: 1/32 Trumpeter SBD
Here are some pictures showing some of the assembly steps I took in building this Trumpeter 1/32 SBD Midway Edition. It is currently completely assembled, or at least assembled enough to start the painting process. Most of it is built [...]
Italeri 1:48 Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless NZ5060, RNZAF Piva, April 1944
No. 25 Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force was formed at Seagrove, Auckland in July 1943 with Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers and served in the Southern Pacific based at the Piva Airstrip on Bougainville, flying missions against [...]
Seats please....
Continuing with my Devastator, it became apparent that the seats were not going to cut it. They are actually ok, very good for the era, but I chose to scratch build the pilots and radio operators seats, I'm still deciding on the gunners [...]
Accurate Miniatures 1/48 SBD-5 Dauntless
AM 1/48 SBD-5. VMSB-331, Marshall Islands, Spring 1944.
I built this kit for a family friend whose late husband was a Marine Radio Operator/Gunner on SBD’s on Guadalcanal. She asked me one day after church how my new adventures in [...]
75th Anniversary – Battle of the Coral Sea: 1/700 U.S.S. Lexington (CV-2) & 1/72 Leppla/Liska VS-2 SBD
I finished two models to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea, which concluded with the sinking of the U.S.S. Lexington (CV-2) on May 8, 1942.
The ship is a 1/700 scale U.S.S. Lexington(CV-2) by Trumpeter. The [...]
1/700 SBD-Dauntless
1/700 Scale
Trumpeter SBD-Dauntless
I made ripples with AK Interactive's Water Gel Transparent.
White waves...Using Vallejo's Foam Effect.
Hasegawa 1/48 SBD-3
It's been so long ago that I built this kit I can only be sure that it was before Y2K. As punishment for my sins I decided that I would see if I could add enough detail to a Hasegawa SBD to match the out of the box detail of an Accurate [...]
Douglas SBD-3, "Dauntless", 'Scouting Six', USS Enterprise
‘S-1’ was a “Dauntless” assigned to Scouting Squadron Six, (VS-6) and was flown from
USS Enterprise, (CV-6), by Lt. Wilmer “Earl” Gallaher.
Lt. Gallaher flew this aircraft, putting the first of four 1,000 pound bombs delivered [...]
1/48 Accurate Miniatures SBD-3 Dauntless, USS Enterprise VB-6, flown by Lt. Cmdr. Richard Best
75 years ago today "Dick" Best changed history with a single 1,000 pound bomb. At that exact instant, he also changed the course of the War in favor of the United States in the Pacific Theater. It has been written that this [...]
Dick Best – the man who sank the Akagi and won the Battle of Midway
Between 1998 and 2001 when he died, I had the privilege of knowing one of the most interesting people I ever met, Dick Best, the man who sank the Akagi and changed the Battle of Midway. As you'll find out reading below, Dick did not think [...]
