Chris Bucholtz Posted June 2, 2011 Report Posted June 2, 2011 Here's the SBD-3 Dauntless I wasaiming to have finished by today for the USS Hornet Midway display: Hey! It's done on time! Only problem: the people on the ship who contacted me about this and were supposed to set it up for installation today are apparently on vacation. Ugh...
Mark Aldrich Posted June 2, 2011 Report Posted June 2, 2011 Beautiful work....Love it when a plan doesn't come together!
David M. Knights Posted June 2, 2011 Report Posted June 2, 2011 Very nice Chris. Glad to see someone can build for a deadline. I hate that.
ghodges Posted June 2, 2011 Report Posted June 2, 2011 Delightful dainty Dauntless Chris! They'll be thrilled with your work once they return from slacking off! GIL
Chris Bucholtz Posted June 3, 2011 Author Report Posted June 3, 2011 An update - my wife (!) went over to the Hornet and cajoled the ship's staffers - the models are now aboard, and I will go in at oh-dark-thirty Saturday to formally set up the display! Modelers make things come together...
Dick Montgomery Posted June 3, 2011 Report Posted June 3, 2011 Excellent work and judging only from the pic it is really difficult to tell that it is in 72nd scale. The dive brakes are very well done.
ClareWentzel Posted June 3, 2011 Report Posted June 3, 2011 Great job Chris. Love the SBD. Did you use PE for the dive brakes? Looks very realistic. Also, from what I can see, the cockpit and gunners area are both really improved.
VonL Posted June 4, 2011 Report Posted June 4, 2011 Nice piece - ! That's some serious buildin', for a deadline and all.
Chris Bucholtz Posted June 4, 2011 Author Report Posted June 4, 2011 Here's the gory details: Those are PART photo-etched dive brakes, with scratch-built actuator mechanisms inside them. Themodel has Quickboost elevators, an interior made with PART, Jaguar and Tom's Modelworks components, Pavla sliding canopies, Quickboost wheels, Aires machine gun barrels, and some scratchbuilt details, like the pilot's single wide lap belt (shoulder straps didn't arrive until August 1942!). I wired the kit engine, and added the generator from the top of a control column from the spares box. The decals are from Starfighter (B-8 from their F11C sheet and the LSO stripe and fuselage roundels from their TBD set), Aeromaster (fuselage and lower wing insignia) and Iliad (the roundels on the top wing were intended for a B-17!).
ClareWentzel Posted June 4, 2011 Report Posted June 4, 2011 Man!!! Great Job Chris. Maybe someone can contact the people who produce the Journal and add an article on this build. Seiously, it would be a great article on how to make a fantastic model using all of the parts available to us modelers.
aAzZ09 Posted June 12, 2011 Report Posted June 12, 2011 Way to go, Chris! That looks great, Best Mark Fiedler (aAzZ09) IPMS #14333
GeorgeC Posted June 24, 2011 Report Posted June 24, 2011 I surely hope that they'll appreciate the effort, Chris. Nice job! Geo. Cully
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