GB-50 1:48 SB2C-4 Helldiver - Zombie Build

[fubar57]

Username: fubar57
First name: George
Category: Advanced
Manufacturer: Pro Modeler
Model: SB2C-4 Helldiver Kit No. 85-5935
Scale: 1:48

Started this in the last century. The kit is dated 1997 so I probably started it in 1998 as I wasn't a stash builder at the time. Going to do aircraft #51 in the "Atlantic Scheme"

 

[fubar57]

The Goods, not mine but from cybermodeler...

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Where we sits. It seems the whole issue was to do with a misalignment of the rear gunners station and snow-balled from there. This morning I tried to gently pry the pieces up a bit to aid alignment and they promptly snapped of, all the better. For starters I clean up the area the arrows are point to. The cockpit is complete save for the pilots seat

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The offending area at the rear of the gunners station. A clean-up and repaint are in order methinks

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Yikes!!!! The radio and radar station.This looked far better in the box without my glasses on, from a distance. Not sure what the gouge marks are from but I should be able to improve this

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Engine looks decent, just need to add the PE harness

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[Airframes]

Standing by ...............

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Added innards to Post #2

 

[rochie]

Nice, barely started it

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice one. I built a Monogram version of this when I was a teenager. It had flappy wings if I recall.

 

[Wayne Little]

Good one George.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks guys. Looking for an "Atlantic Scheme" to go with my Avenger. Detail and Scale says they were 4Es but not all carried the right wing radar pod so if I can find an aircraft photo'd from the left and not showing the right wing.....that's my kite

 

[fubar57]

Still fettling away at the gunners station. There are quite a few builds of this kit but none of the build in progress. I did find a video but it didn't help. I decided to work on other areas in the meantime. Some pretty skookum attachment points. The Tamiya saw made short work of these

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We meet again old friend

 

[CATCH 22]

Thanks guys. Looking for an "Atlantic Scheme" to go with my Avenger. Detail and Scale says they were 4Es but not all carried the right wing radar pod so if I can find an aircraft photo'd from the left and not showing the right wing.....that's my kite

D&S shows a -4 from the left side (page 7), #47. Where exactly (page) did you find the above information ('cause I couldn't).
The same a/c is shown in "Helldiver in action" , page 26, as a colour profile with a description"4E in post-war markings from 1946". You have that? On page 41 there is a photo of the same a/c with another one # 51 in the ASW scheme. Let me know if you don't have/need those.
Cheers!

 

[fubar57]

Thanks Yves. This is from Detail and Scale, Pgs. 41 and 42

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I need to go through my decals for numbers. What can't be seen in the above photos are the letters XVF mid fuselage. Karl PMd me more photos of #47 and #51 showing these. #51 definitely doesn't have the radar pod or Yagi antennas at the time of the photo and

 

[CATCH 22]

Thanks Yves. This is from Detail and Scale, Pgs. 41 and 42

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Oh, I see. I was trying to find a photo of an ASW-Helldiver with the above text and couldn't. Honestly I haven't seen that many photos of Helldivers in the ASW-scheme. Years ago I wanted to build an A-25A/B Shrike and searched the WWW for information, going through several Hell diver-pages as well . I'm sure I've seen the white # 49 as a model. Don't know where though. I have a hard-copy archive as well with some internet sites copied and printed out (many of them don't exist any more), I'll give it a try.
Cheers!
P.S. Found it, here: SB2C-4 Helldiver by Hubert Ortinger (Revell 1/48)

 

[fubar57]

Alrighty...I've decided on my aircraft. Karl and I did some back and forth over the past few days and I will be doing #51 which I added to Post #1

 

[Wurger]

Ok.... are you sure you attached it to the post #1? I can't see anything.

 

[fubar57]

Done again, wording and all

 

[Wurger]

Ok. Now the changing can be seen.

 

[fubar57]

And I just went back and I had two photos......deleted one just now

 

[Wurger]

Two large shots of the Helldiver pair found at ... Curtiss SB2C




And here the 51...

the source: U.S. Navy Aircraft History: An Unusual SB2C

 

[fubar57]

Reading the article makes this the perfect oddball for me. Thanks for the link