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- Thread starter Claymore
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Very pretty. Nice touches with the airgun (spraygun)
I finished 3 tiny Trumpeter 1/350 scale Curtiss SB2C Helldivers. Easy builds, with masking and airbrushing, enamel details, decals (almost all except the US markings were custom printed by MAV Decals), a wash and exhaust stains, and a matt coat. Each aircraft is a model of an actual, specific aircraft.
Iwo Jima: This is an SB2C-3 of VB-3 aboard USS Yorktown, covering the Iwo Jima landings in Feb 1945 with Task Force 58, doing close air support and dive-bombing. No. 110 was one of the few at that stage retaining the earlier three-colour camouflage scheme.
Atlantic Cover: The grey one, aircraft 51, of is an SB2C-4 of XVF-200 (Experimental Development Squadron 200) based at NAS Atlantic City in late 1945, painted in the "Atlantic" scheme of dark gull grey and white.
Rescue: This bright-nosed SB2C-4 is an air/sea rescue aircraft based with the Air Sea Rescue Unit at NAS Kaneohe, Hawaii, in Dec 1945, doing search and spotting, supply drop, and direction of other aircraft and boats where needed. Original unit markings on tail and fuselage were painted over.
Iwo Jima: This is an SB2C-3 of VB-3 aboard USS Yorktown, covering the Iwo Jima landings in Feb 1945 with Task Force 58, doing close air support and dive-bombing. No. 110 was one of the few at that stage retaining the earlier three-colour camouflage scheme.
Atlantic Cover: The grey one, aircraft 51, of is an SB2C-4 of XVF-200 (Experimental Development Squadron 200) based at NAS Atlantic City in late 1945, painted in the "Atlantic" scheme of dark gull grey and white.
Rescue: This bright-nosed SB2C-4 is an air/sea rescue aircraft based with the Air Sea Rescue Unit at NAS Kaneohe, Hawaii, in Dec 1945, doing search and spotting, supply drop, and direction of other aircraft and boats where needed. Original unit markings on tail and fuselage were painted over.
Heller 1/50 AMD-BA/Dornier Alpha Jet.
This Heller kit is an odd scale, and not a great kit - colour inaccuracies, lots of fit issues, raised panel lines making correction harder, and detail was rather so-so. Still, it's an interesting and rare subject. I built it as a Dassault-Bréguet/Dornier Alpha Jet A flying for the Luftwaffe in the 1970s. There is an option for the Patrouille de France aerobatic team, but I didn't want to chance yellowing decals on a white finish.
This Heller kit is an odd scale, and not a great kit - colour inaccuracies, lots of fit issues, raised panel lines making correction harder, and detail was rather so-so. Still, it's an interesting and rare subject. I built it as a Dassault-Bréguet/Dornier Alpha Jet A flying for the Luftwaffe in the 1970s. There is an option for the Patrouille de France aerobatic team, but I didn't want to chance yellowing decals on a white finish.