We’ve been tossing this around in the US Naval A/C GB and finally decided to go for it.
Any aircraft serving in the Battle of Midway including Japanese and American, fighters, bombers, torpedo planes, recon planes etc… I think this should be a free for all… OOB all the way to scratch built is fine, and everything in between. No limit on number of entries, size of craft, maker of craft etc…
Darson - F4F
Jeeves - SBD-3 COMPLETE
Razordws - TBF COMPLETE
Pmm736 - SBD-2 COMPLETE
j.s.harrison - Zero
Pingtang - SBD-3 COMPLETE
Bobbaily - SBD-2 COMPLETE
tho9900 - A6M2 Model 21 Zero
KINGTHAD - SBD-2 COMPLETE
Traintrak - B5N2 Kate MIA
MrBee - Avenger
PanzerWulff - Buffalo
PakNick - Buffalo
Kremps - Custard Pie COMPLETE
(she’s sure they served that in the mess hall during the engagement, it was yummy! [dinner] sorry no pics)
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Partial list of aircraft used in engagement:
Oh yeah… I am in!! It is one of the most interesting battles of the war for me-- I have been reading about it for years! I will build at least an SBD…maybe an Avenger as well. I am currently building George Gay’s Devastator for the Pacific build…so it will be cool to continue on the theme…
Mike, not sure if ya have one near you but Hobby Lobby is ironically also running a 50% sale off all plastic models this week… would be a perfect time to pick up another AM Dauntless (the SBD-2 comes in Midway clothing) or an Avenger or Tamiya Wildcat!!!
oh yeah - I spoke of him on several occasions in different threads, but here is my uncle - AMMC3 Leo F. Broussard, tail gunner/radioman SBD’s 2?, 3, and 4… he enlisted in early 1941, became an Aviation Machinist Mate, finally obtaining the engine/carborator sub-rating, then trained as tail gunner in aviation gunnery school near Beeville, TX. problem was he was good at it (grew up hunting ducks in the bayous down here and knew how to lead a target with precision) … He ended up as an instructor at the school upon graduation. His biggest lament was not going right out to the war. Finally he got orders to the USS ??? (I think Lexington from some of our talks once I went in the Navy) … on his trip across the pacific the bomb was dropped and he never made it to combat.
When I was deployed in the Med he used to write me a lot after my aunt (his wife)died… we talked a lot about his time in, and his regret about not making it to combat… personally I am glad he never went… he was a very important influence growing up and some of his words still stick today. “If you’re not going to do it right the first time don’t do it at all” and so on… He used to love the pictures of the Med and of shipboard duty I would send him…
not really related to the Midway thread, but he trained many of the SBD gunners of the USMC and Navy, most probably some of the ones who fought in Midway either served with him in class or were trained by him… just wanted to bring it up… as SBD’s are one of my favorite kits for a reason… here he is:
Tom, I would love to join in on this one but if I do it will be towards the end. Need to clear some things off my desk and if time permits I’ll jump in. Great idea though.
Must resist urge to join another group build, must resist, must resis…[}:)][:D]
Tom the end date you’ve got in mind is going to be the killer for me, if there is any way you can take it out a bit (a lot actually) that would be great. Because the front half of this year is jam packed with builds IO am already committed too.
Otherwise put me down as a maybe for a Tamiya F4F Wildcat.
I would be interested in joining. I’ve always been interested in this subject. I usually reside over on the dark side, but I’m doing a ship for the Pearl Harbor build, so what the hey. Only problem is I currently have a ton on my plate build-wise. Either pushing the whole thing back or an extension of the end date would be real helpful, in order to clear a few things out, do a little research and pick up a kit. If it’s not feasible, thats OK.
Ok Tom you already know i’m in on this one[tup] put me down for an Avenger or Wildcat, not sure yet but whatever one i choose it’ll definatly be from the Yorktown…
Hmmm i guess i should start thinking about a tag eh…
Good idea for a GB. Midway is probably the event that holds the most interest for me from WW2.
If it starts straight away, I’ll enter my AM SBD-3 dauntless. I will have to do some research to find a suitable scheme. Out of the box it is a SBD from the battle of Coral sea, so I’ll get rid of the rudder stripes and insignia circles, and I should be pretty close. I’ll just need some squadron codes.
I’ll start building as soon as I finish my Aussie GB build, and my RC211V (shouldn’t be too long away). Then I’ll only have this build, the BoB build and the F-14 GB to deal with (if I don’t go entering any others that is).
Jules There weren’t any aircraft flying during midway that carried the tri-colour scheme. The tri colour scheme wasn’t introduced until early 1943. The only scheme that would have been used was the blue-grey over light grey one. The red and white rudder stripes and red insignia dots were also deleted after the coral sea battle. The insignia’s would have been in all six positions in the white star in blue circle format.
That’s probably more info than you needed, but I hope it helps anyway.
Tom-enjoyed the brief history about your uncle. I regret not spending more time with some great uncles that served in both Europe (w/Patton) and in the Pacific.
ok… just to get better participation, and because I like yall… [;)] let’s just have an open end date on this… I understand about the amount of builds etc… heck I dont even have an idea what I am going to build for this one!!!
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Daniel, you are absolutly right about the scheme there. The only thing that you might try is (at least the Marine squadron based at Midway VMSB-241) had blue and aircraft grey stripes on the rudder they had painted over the red and white, also the decals for the SBD-2 noted the red circles might show through a bit on the insignias as they were hand painted over with white. The squadron code itself had also been painted over leaving just the aircraft number on the fuselage. I’ll check around and see if I can find some reference for you.
I know it Bob! I’m like a kid in a candyshop lately!!! so many to pick from, so little time!!
thanks for the link, I do remember seeing that on the AM site before but you jogged my memory… pretty good idea how AM researches their planes too! Thanks!
Oh no, not another gb build, I cant pass on this one but I have knoe idea what to build. Jules, Darren are you guys following me from gb to gb? or maybe Im following you.
I agree-after reviewing the instructions, I noticed that the decal sheet only contained lap belts-no shoulder belts. I sent an e-mail to AM questioning that and received a reply stating that the SBD-2’s did not have shoulder belts. Hard to beat that kind of service. Already planning on doing their recon Mustang for the North Africa build when that on kicks off…
