1/48 Accurate Miniatures SB2C-1C Helldiver VB-17 (Finished)

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Turned out great. I built that one a while ago - the promoder boxing - and was pretty pleased with the kit. She is a big plane for sure. Really not a well liked airplane. Government contracting at its worst I suppose.

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I always like your builds. I’ve been on here for about a year and have seen a half dozen or so. I believe they have all been WW2 subjects. Have you ever built a modern jet?

Also, I recently posted something wanting to use Montex mask. Someone replied how you like to use them. Where can I go to purchase?

Thanks for posting. It’s awesome.

Paul

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Thanks. I remember reading in my brief research that it was responsible for over 300 Japanese ships being destroyed, not too shabby. It was reportedly not a bad as the pilots said and not as good as Curtiss said it was going to be…it fell somewhere in the middle perhaps…

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Thanks. I suppose I would have been happier with that boxing.

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Thanks Paul. Aside of a few subjects, I’m not big on modern stuff. The most recent thing I’ve built was the F-86. I am however intrigued by the Tamiya Skyraider and the F-14. Maybe someday.

I get my Montex, as well as most of my modeling supplies, off ebay. A company called “Victory Models Production” carries them.

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My gosh LD, these are looking so good it’s getting ridiculous! The lower fuselage is just breathtaking.

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That looks great, I love the detail in the cockpit and the weathering of the exterior. It might not have been the most well-liked aircraft, but your rendition looks amazing. You mentioned issues with the Dauntless, I think I may have run into the same problem, no matter how hard I tried, I could not get the cowling to fit onto it, and I wound up setting the kit aside. I lost the arrestor hook somewhere too lol. How did you wind up resolving that issue? I do like the detail of the AM kit, it’s a shame about the cowling, if I could figure out how to fix it, I would probably finish the build, albeit with a missing arrestor hook.

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You did great, Joe.

Chad darned near stole my line. I was going to say the undercarriage looks so good, you might consider displaying this one upside down!

(I don’t mean that to take away from the rest of it)

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Lovely finish LD. Your robust shading and variation on the wings really pops. Congrats.

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Great work on your Beast! She sure looks like she’s been in the South Pacific for awhile, but ready to have another swing at the Rising Sun.

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I just typed a post and just as I was gonna press submit it vanished! This hapenned to me the other day too. Has anyone else experienced this?

Let’s do this again… Excellent looking Helldiver. The paint and weathering are spot on.[t$t]

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Yup just what I thought. Came out spectacular.

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Yes.

I used to think it was my hand inadvertantly touching something on the touchpad or whatever, but lately I’m not so sure.

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The finish on this is fantastic, I am going to shamelessly copy your build when I get around to my AM kit build.

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Thanks Chad

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Thanks. It’s actually one particular boxing from what I could tell. They have dash 5 parts mixed with dash 3 (the dash 5 had a longer front end). You’ll have to buy another kit to finish yours unfortunately. I discuss it here:

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/2/t/185487.aspx

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Thanks Greg. No display, it will be on it’s way to Maryland soon.

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Thanks Hoss

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Thanks Stik

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Thanks PJ