SBC-3 Helldiver 1/48

Hello,

When Promodeler released this one around 1997, I jumped on it an made an Atlantic white/gray scheme, rather clean look. The radar pod is scratched and few things added in the cockpit. The undercarriage wheel wells are rebuilded, but I’ve lost the pics… A wonderfull kit, that only needs some care along the wings joints.

Cheers !

Looks great!

Mike

Nice work… Always liked the look of the Son of a B*tch 2nd Class and the Atlantic camo really makes it a head-turner… A late Marine friend of mine was a gunner in the Beast after WW2 ended and said it was a bird he loved to hate, but refered to it as an SBDueceC (Ess-bee-DOO-see) In one of his sea-stories he mentioned that the pilots really hated it when the turtleback was down because apparently it caused a lot of buffeting…

Very nice.
Thanks for posting.

Cheers…

Nice!!!. I’ve always said that the Helldiver is so ugly its pretty

Sweet!Never saw one in that scheme before.

Very nice build. Looks great in the Atlantic scheme.

Regards, Rick

Love it!! Outstanding model.

A-men. Nice work there- pics show that thsoe Atlantic Beasts took a beating. I’d say you got it right- cheers, ineed!

chuk

That’s a beautiful job. Very authentic.[tup]

Nice work and an impressive paint scheme. Thanks for sharing.

Great model of a great bird. Nicley done.

Again, excellent work. [tup]

That is a great-looking plane! I didn’t realize that radar was small enough to be carried in a pod on those things. With radar technology being very new back then, I would not have thought that all the radar electronics would fit in such a small space (power supplies, antennae, electronics, etc.). Impressive build!

Looks great!!! the paint job is fantastic, I love it!!

congratulations!

Best regards

Jeremias