Douglas SBD-1 Dauntless, USMC 2-MB-13

 

Correct diameter but too deep….🙁 

 

Correct diameter and correct depth🙂 

1,5 mm brass tube glued into 2 of 6 holes on the front of the motor. 2. Attempt fits.  

 

Brass tubes glued with CA to the front of the fuselage.  

Engine from the kit. I found the pushrods and ignition wires too massive and removed them. New pushrods of 0.6 mm round rod in place. Wires coming at next.  

 

 

 

 

1,5 mm brass tube as connector for power supply (3 V DC) 

Its easier to fit the flaps to the wing before installing the wing to the fuselage.  

 

Very good fit.  

 

 

Connection cables successfully soldered.  

Connection points for inflight configuration and voltage supply for the motor.  

 

LSO light (red, green, amber). 1st step: cut out cleaned, rear plate added (0,13 mm plastic), 3 lights (punched with 0,8 mm flattened needle) from colored self adhesive foil.  

Step 2: transparent cover made of narrow strip of Tesa tape.  

Step 3: masked with an externally cutted mask (Tamiya tape).  

Green is a mix of H131 and H2. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The result of a good modeling day🙂 

 

 

Last airbrush session: dark grey as antiglare panel.  

Unfortunately red and yellow are in the wrong place 🙁 so I had to fix them.  

 

On course again: yellow stripe is now correct in the middle.  

 

For in flight configuration you don’t need the landing legs.  

Ground plate 1 (left): 40 mm Bambus & printed Dibond sandwich plate.  

Ground plate 2 (right): 40 mm Bambus & printed Dibond sandwich plate.  

Both ground plates together.  

Rear panel 1 (left): printed Dibond sandwich plate & 12 mm birch wood Mux plate 250x50 mm 

Both rear panels together.  

 

Both displays together minus attachments for the SBD’s (2-MB-13 and Hanno’s 2-MB-1) and batteries.  

 

 

 

Result of the group build: both planes of the VMB-2 together… (right flies the squadron leader, Hanno’s MB-1🙂)