Douglas SBD Dauntless
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Midway Group Build – VMSB-241 SBD-2
Too busy working with the editors on the upcoming "Pacific Thunder" (out in August, you can pre-order on Amazon now) to build anything new for the group build but here's my Trumpeter SBD-2 from VMSB-241 built a few years back, [...]
SBD-3 Dauntless, Battle of Midway (repost)
I posted this project here three-and-a-half years ago, and sometime back Martin indicated it would be OK to add previous project photos when the Midway Group Build went live.
The kit is Trumpeter's 1/32 offering, with additional scratch [...]
Hasegawa 1/72 SBD-2 Dauntless @ Midway
What began as an OOB build turned into something a bit more complex. I had 2 SDB's in the stash to pick from for the Midway group build, and selected the Hasegawa SDB-3. The Midway decal set I was able to secure for it was for a Marine [...]
Remembering Dick Best and the Battle of Midway, 4 June 1942
Today is the 73rd anniversary of the Battle of Midway, the battle that changed the course of the war in the Pacific.
I'd like to take this time to remember my friend, the late Richard H. "Dick" Best, the only person I ever met [...]
REVELL 1/144 SBD-1 Dauntless “Yellow wing” MARINES
In the seventies bought a model of DOUNTLESS and since he waited in stash.
10 years ago I decided to build it in Markings U.S.Marines yellow wing according to the instructions 1/48 ACCURATE MINIATURES SBD-1 Build years before im [...]
1/32 SBD-4 Dauntless, No 25 Squadron RNZAF, Espiritu Santo Island, 1944
In early 1944, No 25 Squadron RNZAF began operational training on SBD-4 aircraft at Pallikulo on Espiritu Santo Island in the New Hebrides. These SBD-4s were ex-USMC aircraft, and in quite poor condition. Operational training included [...]
Dauntless, Done… SBD-4, 1/48, Hasegawa
After much ado and diligent effort over the past two and and a half weeks, I am calling my SBD-4 Dauntless 'done'...for a fairly unskilled builder like me it has been a challenge but I am pleased overall with the result which I humbly [...]
DOUGLAS SBD-5 DAUNTLESS
No. 25 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force
Piva Airfield, Bougainville, March - May 1944
Accurate Miniatures produce(d) some of the best models ever, I have build a few now and they are all excellent. The SBD is no exception. [...]
Armee de l'Air A-24B – 1/48 Accurate Miniatures SBD-5 kit
An SBD with invasion stripes. Actually an A-24B, used by the Armee de l'Air during the battles for the French channel ports in 1944-45. Decals came from a European release of the kit, large tail wheel from the spares box.
A-M 1/48 SBD-5 Dauntless
Another OOB build of one of the best OOB kits ever released, the Accurate Miniatures SBD-5 Dauntless in the markings of VMSB-232 during the Central Pacific Campaign. Following the successful taking of Kwajalein in the Marshalls, the other [...]
