Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver - FINISHED

two right wings 

Picture from Wikimedia - creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ 

 

Ammunition boxes "removed" ... 

The seat is from Ultracast, some small parts homemade 

I painted the bottle in the rear cockpit green for oxygen - have no clue whether this is correct 

Instruments are hand painted - no decals used 

 

 

 

trying to fit the Revell outer wing to the Wolfpack inner part 

three times right wing: full resinwing, resingwing with cut out for slats, mixed inner wing resin and outer wingpanel from Revellkitwing 

insert was vacformed over resinwing and glued into place with Bondic 

primed 

For whatever reason I seem to be the only one where the kit part does not fit (left). Luckily I could vacform a replacement using the kit part (right). 

 

 

 

 

 

Building an inflatable dinghy ... 

inflatable dinghy and where it's stored 

almost there ... 

 

de-arming the wing cannons - before and after 

 

 

 

 

 

working on the looks of the airflow deflector - left original, right reworked 

 

 

 

the Montex masks didn't stick well enough so I had to replace some with Tamiya tape 

 

 

 

 

Masking for the yellow Rescue Strip 

Yellow painted ... 

the usual home cut masks .. resized from the Catalina project 

 

 

 

 

first landing leg is ready for paintjob 

gunner seat from Ultracast 

Ultracast seat is a huge improvement 

Maketar masks for the wings 

obviously Helldivers had one frame painted red ... 

final clear coat missing othersiwe finished 

unmasking tore off some paint - sanded with Tamiya 1200 grit 

black primer 

Vallejo intermediate blue 71.299 

Thin layer of Vallejo Sea Blue 71.300 

... fixed! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Missed to add the red "escape hatch" decal - now it's too bright and needs some gentle toning down 

Wing is now ready for the final semi gloss coat 

I think the fuel tank filler cap should be red 

Propeller finished - decals are from Kora 

had to drill away a mounting rod - now have to restore the paint 

ready for painiting 

rear gunner seat is in - I also added the missing blue teardrop shaped light 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The scratch built Fairchild camera has found it's place also 

the Yagi antenna come from the Accurate Miniatures TBM kit as they are more detailed than the Revell parts 

 

Struts made out of 0.8mm brass tube with 0.6mm inserts which held the final 0.4mm alu tubes. Painting: primed, two coats of different reds, gloss coat, wash and semi closs coat 

It is possible to thread EZ wire twice into a 0.4mm brass tube!