Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver - FINISHED
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two right wings
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Picture from Wikimedia - creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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Ammunition boxes "removed" ...
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The seat is from Ultracast, some small parts homemade
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I painted the bottle in the rear cockpit green for oxygen - have no clue whether this is correct
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Instruments are hand painted - no decals used
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trying to fit the Revell outer wing to the Wolfpack inner part
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three times right wing: full resinwing, resingwing with cut out for slats, mixed inner wing resin and outer wingpanel from Revellkitwing
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insert was vacformed over resinwing and glued into place with Bondic
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primed
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For whatever reason I seem to be the only one where the kit part does not fit (left). Luckily I could vacform a replacement using the kit part (right).
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Building an inflatable dinghy ...
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inflatable dinghy and where it's stored
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almost there ...
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de-arming the wing cannons - before and after
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working on the looks of the airflow deflector - left original, right reworked
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the Montex masks didn't stick well enough so I had to replace some with Tamiya tape
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Masking for the yellow Rescue Strip
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Yellow painted ...
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the usual home cut masks .. resized from the Catalina project
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first landing leg is ready for paintjob
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gunner seat from Ultracast
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Ultracast seat is a huge improvement
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Maketar masks for the wings
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obviously Helldivers had one frame painted red ...
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final clear coat missing othersiwe finished
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unmasking tore off some paint - sanded with Tamiya 1200 grit
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black primer
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Vallejo intermediate blue 71.299
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Thin layer of Vallejo Sea Blue 71.300
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... fixed!
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Missed to add the red "escape hatch" decal - now it's too bright and needs some gentle toning down
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Wing is now ready for the final semi gloss coat
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I think the fuel tank filler cap should be red
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Propeller finished - decals are from Kora
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had to drill away a mounting rod - now have to restore the paint
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ready for painiting
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rear gunner seat is in - I also added the missing blue teardrop shaped light
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The scratch built Fairchild camera has found it's place also
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the Yagi antenna come from the Accurate Miniatures TBM kit as they are more detailed than the Revell parts
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Struts made out of 0.8mm brass tube with 0.6mm inserts which held the final 0.4mm alu tubes. Painting: primed, two coats of different reds, gloss coat, wash and semi closs coat
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It is possible to thread EZ wire twice into a 0.4mm brass tube!
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Helldiver from NAS Kanehoe bay in the Air Sea rescue role.