Second addition to my Battle of Midway 80th anniversary build.
After some excellent 1:700 ships (and supposedly 1:72 armor), Flyhawk released their first 1:72 aircraft and they nailed it the first time. There are a few minor things like open dive flaps (upper part should be closed), wrong stencils font and supposedly slightly wrong shape of the upper cowling transition towards the windshield, this is still an excellent first effort and just yesterday SBD-2 was announced.
The model represents Richard Best's aircraft just before flying to his first mission of the day, when his bomb doomed the Akagi carrier.
Mostly out of the box model, with just PE seatbelts added from a generic set.
Full article and gallery: https://vvsmodelling.com/2022/10/31/douglas-sbd-3-dauntless/
Work in progress: https://vvsmodelling.com/2022/10/04/flyhawk-172-sbd-3-dauntless-build-article/
After some excellent 1:700 ships (and supposedly 1:72 armor), Flyhawk released their first 1:72 aircraft and they nailed it the first time. There are a few minor things like open dive flaps (upper part should be closed), wrong stencils font and supposedly slightly wrong shape of the upper cowling transition towards the windshield, this is still an excellent first effort and just yesterday SBD-2 was announced.
The model represents Richard Best's aircraft just before flying to his first mission of the day, when his bomb doomed the Akagi carrier.
Mostly out of the box model, with just PE seatbelts added from a generic set.
Full article and gallery: https://vvsmodelling.com/2022/10/31/douglas-sbd-3-dauntless/
Work in progress: https://vvsmodelling.com/2022/10/04/flyhawk-172-sbd-3-dauntless-build-article/
