Revell 1/48 SBD-5 Dauntless COMPLETED

Golanthius said:
Rookie? Huh :rolleyes: It's weird because I can search for an hour when I first drop it and never find it. Then one day I can walk in the room and look down and it's sitting right there. IDK.
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Usually I find my missing parts within 15 minutes. 99% of the time, I see which direction it flew. Only 2 or 3 times I resorted to clearing my bench work space.

I am still missing the command tower of one of my battleship kits. I didn't lose it, the damn cat must've found it on my bench thinking it's a toy. Still looking after a month. Still can't find it.
 
Classic Monogram kit! You could use PE dive flaps, but the kit flaps look fine drilled out. There's a meditative quality to drilling out those holes.
Are you keeping the operating features, like the dropping bomb, or "modeling" them over?
 
the Baron said:
Classic Monogram kit! You could use PE dive flaps, but the kit flaps look fine drilled out. There's a meditative quality to drilling out those holes.
Are you keeping the operating features, like the dropping bomb, or "modeling" them over?
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I believe the drop bomb is in the kit so I will be using it. I did not get the PE dive flaps so I will most likely drill out the kit flaps.
 
Watching this one closely, I'd like to do one myself. Yours is looking fantastic!

Now a 1/48 scale Enterprise.....
 
Got the engine painted and mounted. Also got the wings on.
 

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Ah, wait a minute-I think I was mistaken in my previous comment. This isn't the old original Monogram Dauntless, is it? That kit had a much simpler interior, the cowling was a single piece with the engine molded onto the firewall, it had a pilot and gunner figure, and it had a dropable bomb actuated with a lever installed in the fuselage. It hooked into the bomb through a hole in the bottom of the fuselage, and a trigger that protruded from the bottom of the fuselage, just aft of the dive brakes. Is this a kit Revell reboxed from another maker, like Hasegawa?
 
Ah, OK, it's the Accurate Miniatures kit. Yeah, not the same one I thought of at first glance. It's a great kit!
I still do like the old Monogram kit, though, a good nostalgia build.
 

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