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Good moaning, This project was a gift from a fellow BM member on one of our Plonk and Plastic gatherings, the vintage Airfix Dauntless was just the parts along with an extra Hasegawa Dauntless sprue and decals that were in one of his Hasegawa Dauntless kits!! I'm replacing the Airfix engine, cockpit interior, canopy, tailhook and some smaller items with Hasegawa parts, which go without saying are far superior to the 1967Airfix offering! The hardest part to replace was the engine, as the Airfix cowling is quite thick and needed the wall thinned drastically! The cockpit interior went a lot easier and only required minor alterations! So far I have drilled out all the dive brake holes (200+), attached the wings to the assembled fuselage and fixed on the cowling.... Airfix left off the exhausts on the cowls, I'm using replacement aftermarket resin parts, and they left off the covers to the two forward-firing machine guns which I replicated with Milliput! They also left out the recessed bomb area, easy to replicate... Here are photos of where I am up to right now: BTW I am leaving the Airfix rivets on as they add to the aircraft demure....oh as to why I am not building the superior Hasegawa kit, well they are bloody hard to get hold of and go for a lot of money on E-bay ... missed out on two so far but am still looking!! 🙂 Typical of that vintage the wheel wells are open and show the bottom of the cockpit floor... so I filled these in with card under the cockpit and thin plastic card around the wheel wells, quite easy really: Drilled the holes to locate the missing exhaust stubs; -
Hi, A "cusine" of Northrop Delta, alla Gammas including A17 Nomad, BT1 and N3PB - the Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless. The family relationship beteween all those construction I tried to explain in second post on N3PB. Thanks KRK4m for showing me this relationship many years ago. I've made this model also many years ago, before Hasegawa issued their nice kit. I used old Airfix kit, drilling more than 350 openings in airbrakes...And few other improvments added. Markings are from USS Ranger, Nov. 1942, during operation "Torch" (landing in West Africa). Comments welcome Regards Jerzy-Wojtek- 4 replies
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