Revell 1/48 SBD-5 Dauntless COMPLETED

[BlackSheepTwoOneFour]

Rookie? Huh It’s weird because I can search for an hour when I first drop it and never find it. Then one day I can walk in the room and look down and it’s sitting right there. IDK.

Usually I find my missing parts within 15 minutes. 99% of the time, I see which direction it flew. Only 2 or 3 times I resorted to clearing my bench work space.

I am still missing the command tower of one of my battleship kits. I didn’t lose it, the damn cat must’ve found it on my bench thinking it’s a toy. Still looking after a month. Still can’t find it.

 

[the Baron]

Classic Monogram kit! You could use PE dive flaps, but the kit flaps look fine drilled out. There's a meditative quality to drilling out those holes.
Are you keeping the operating features, like the dropping bomb, or "modeling" them over?

 

[TimM63]

Classic Monogram kit! You could use PE dive flaps, but the kit flaps look fine drilled out. There's a meditative quality to drilling out those holes.
Are you keeping the operating features, like the dropping bomb, or "modeling" them over?

I believe the drop bomb is in the kit so I will be using it. I did not get the PE dive flaps so I will most likely drill out the kit flaps.

 

[TimM63]

Some progress made. Cockpit is in (pain in the a@&).

 

[BlackSheepTwoOneFour]

Well done!

 

[TimM63]

Well done!

Thank you.

 

[Bear43]

You did a great job on that cockpit. It looks really good.

 

[TimM63]

You did a great job on that cockpit. It looks really good.

Thank you Bear

 

[Down Time]

Watching this one closely, I'd like to do one myself. Yours is looking fantastic!

Now a 1/48 scale Enterprise.....

 

[TimM63]

Got the engine painted and mounted. Also got the wings on.

 

[Bear43]

The engine looks really good.

 

[TimM63]

The engine looks really good.

Thank you. I need to touch up the dry brushing a little bit.

 

[the Baron]

Ah, wait a minute-I think I was mistaken in my previous comment. This isn't the old original Monogram Dauntless, is it? That kit had a much simpler interior, the cowling was a single piece with the engine molded onto the firewall, it had a pilot and gunner figure, and it had a dropable bomb actuated with a lever installed in the fuselage. It hooked into the bomb through a hole in the bottom of the fuselage, and a trigger that protruded from the bottom of the fuselage, just aft of the dive brakes. Is this a kit Revell reboxed from another maker, like Hasegawa?

 

[the Baron]

Ah, OK, it's the Accurate Miniatures kit. Yeah, not the same one I thought of at first glance. It's a great kit!
I still do like the old Monogram kit, though, a good nostalgia build.

 

[TimM63]

I have it primed and ready base coat.

 

[Pantherman]

I have it primed and ready base coat.

Nice. Pantherman

 

[Bear43]

Looking good.

 

[TimM63]

Projected paint scheme is done. Let me know your thoughts.

 

[Bear43]

I think it looks nice.

 

[TimM63]

I think it looks nice.

Thank you. I wasn’t sure how the USN Sea Blue was going to look but the more I look at it the more I like it.