**** DONE: GB-54 1:48 SBD-3 - Pacific Theater

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Seams the GD weather just doesn't want to help out.
Rain, heat, more rain, cold, heat.................
So I got back on the bench and couldn't help myself.
Added some hardly noticeable handles in the front and back offices.
View attachment 670501
! I think is something for the seat position??
2 & 3 I think are connected bomb release?
4 Unknown, but it was There!
5 Is the backseat Control Column. there are posts
that Claim the C.C. has a Stashed position against the
starboard wall, but I think it is confusion with 3, the
connected bomb release handle at the back seat.
These get painted caterpillar guts green!

Hi Bill.

1. Arrestor Hook Lever
2 and 3: Wobble Pump Handle
4. Not in the below reference pic
5. Indeed it's the backseater's control column. It was able to be detached and stowed on the PORT side

The pic below is an excerpt from here: upload pilots handbook for sbd-3 dauntless

 

[rochie]

great mods and fixes Bill

 

[T Bolt]

Great work there Bill

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Looks like there on a Pizza base ready for cooking!! As usual though, great fiddly work.

 

[N4521U]

Hi Bill.

1. Arrestor Hook Lever
2 and 3: Wobble Pump Handle
4. Not in the below reference pic
5. Indeed it's the backseater's control column. It was able to be detached and stowed on the PORT side

The pic below is an excerpt from here: upload pilots handbook for sbd-3 dauntless

View attachment 670626

At last, clarification! Thanks...

Looks like there on a Pizza base ready for cooking!! As usual though, great fiddly work.

It's a round of thick Plex from a plastix shop remnants box, with a layer of blue tac to keep control of them small pieces. Used often!

 

[N4521U]

WTH.......................... 3 pages and already wing fitting.
But......... I am soooooo f'n tired of the way wings so called FIT!
They just give me the sh!tes.
Why?????

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Looks like a good step. I take it the other side fits okay and all you gotta do is squeeze it in...............................................without crushing the fuselage!

 

[N4521U]

Looks like a good step. I take it the other side fits okay and all you gotta do is squeeze it in...............................................without crushing the fuselage!

Nope other side the same. Will have to file and sand the step down!!! P.O.S.

 

[Crimea_River]

That's a big gap!

 

[SaparotRob]

And yet, I'm sure that by its completion, it will be perfect.

 

[N4521U]

Not perfect................
However I have beena choppin anna sandin anna cussin!
Worked onner for about 2 anna bloody haff hours!
Itza gettin there!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

 

[Wurger]

Geez ! Bill , please, write in Christian ...

 

[SaparotRob]

Not perfect................
However I have beena choppin anna sandin anna cussin!
Worked onner for about 2 anna bloody haff hours!
Itza gettin there!

...and loving it.

 

[Crimea_River]

Geez ! Bill , please, write in Christian ...

Naw, it's more entertaining this way! Keep onner Bill!

 

[Carrera2]

Good one Bill. Reading the fella's citation, one wonders what honours his back-seater got.

Exactly! No word at all about the back seater who gave his life as well. The navy did not do well by it's enlisted aircrew.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far Bill!

 

[Ralph Haus]

Not perfect................
However I have beena choppin anna sandin anna cussin!
Worked onner for about 2 anna bloody haff hours!
Itza gettin there!

So. That's 'downunderish'? I though for a minute there that Artesh had hijacked Bill's account?

 

[Wurger]