1/32 Trumpeter SBD-2 Dauntless

[LSP_Kevin]

39 minutes ago, Oldbaldguy said:

Make sense?

 

It does to me, finally!

 

Kev

[olgerd83]

20 hours ago, Oldbaldguy said:

Make sense?

 

It does make perfect sense, I was confused about 2 sticks in the kit, I didn't realized that it's the same, but duplicated...

any way, thanks everyone for making it clear, I cut it out and cockpit is ready to be closed, finally ))

 

[olgerd83]

Let's continue

- both fuselage parts are glued, it was a hard process to put them together without gaps, "steps", that's Trumpeter yeah....

 

 

 

- engine is done, decided not to do a lot of details, just basic work with wires and paint

 

 

 

 

Thanks for watching

[Brett M]

Great looking engine there 

[olgerd83]

an update after a long gap:

 

- glued wings and added them to fuselage, masked and sanded

 

 

- Trumpeter decided that it's a very nice idea to give flaps and air brakes in parts like this

 

- fuselage is ready for painting

 

- masked and glued canopy, covered with primer

 

 

To be continued...

 

 

[Brett M]

Looks familiar, nice progress you’ve made!

 

Question for you on your canopy; was there an open version and a closed version in the kit? My -5 has both.....if it’s the same, I think you might have the open version for the pilot in place. The windscreen extended slightly past the edge of the cockpit sill, so the closed version looks slightly different. Might be too late to change, but here’s a image from mine to show the difference.

 

SBD-2 from Airliners

https://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/Douglas-SBD-2-Dauntless/1685262/L?qsp=eJwtjEEKwkAMRe%2BStS6q4KK7egEFvUBMPlqszpAJ1KH07sbB3eM9eAtJejs%2Bfq0Z1FMBmzxoQ5mNX4X6hZ6oczINpstNt7uIJZkfawhlxyCC7NC/P5nCfglF2uce3y4Adm5M%2B0N4HUueuD3gPE60rl/5dS4T

Edited November 24, 2020 by Brett M

[olgerd83]

7 hours ago, Brett M said:

Might be too late to change, but here’s a image from mine to show the difference.

 

Thanks Brett. Yes, I have 2 options closed/opened and I decided to do the opened one.

I think it's not too late, I glued it with a white glue, just for paint work, so it can easily be removed. However, I already started to paint model and, if I move windscreen perhaps I would have to repaint that part.

 

39 minutes ago, MARU5137 said:

IMPRESSIVE  Workmanship. 

Dauntless 360° tour.

 

Thanks

[olgerd83]

Small update:

- I will fix windshield issue a bit later, meanwhile I made preshading

 

 

- used silver on hatches and wing edges

 

- add salt on top of silver paint

 

and covered with yellow zinc chromate, after that used salt again

 

- painted in main colors top - Hataka - A218, bottom A050

 

- masked tail, covered it with white, again masked and painted red lines

 

- very-very thin layer of base blue gray on tail

 

again salt on top of base color

 

and covered with mix of base color and light gray, approx. 50/50%

 

 

that's all for today

 

[olgerd83]

new update:

- mask and painted black anti slippery walk sides

 

 

- attached engine, painted inside parts of cowler

 

- moved windscreen a bit back, thanks again for point on that

 

- covered model with future and waiting for decals

 

 

[Out2gtcha]

Looks great Oleg! 

[olgerd83]

Ok, so I can say that the model is COMPLETED.

Of course, there are some mistakes and errors, but I enjoyed the process and the result, this is the most important for me.

Moreover, this light doesn't show all "50 shades of grey" ))) perhaps will take some other pictures during summertime

Hope you will enjoy watching as well.

 

 

 

 

 

[olgerd83]

 

 

[Brett M]

Nicely done, Oleg! She looks great 

[Rockie Yarwood]

Beautiful model and finish, Oleg!