Herr Baron,

Thanks for the photos of the interior.

No need to convert them.

I'm able to download the photos and use the PDF995 converter to do that.

Just thinking about how nice it is that such information is available nowadays.

When I purchased and built my first AURORA SBC-3 kit in 1970, no such information was available .

Only the publication of Airpower and Wings magazines in 1971 began to make aircraft details available to me..

Thanks again ! 

Thanks for the link, Goose!  And I scanned some images last night, and uploaded them:

The control panels, both viewed from aft:

A shot of the starboard sidewall of the cockpit:

and a photo of the gunner with the machine gun deployed, and the sketch of the machine gun, stowed, with the turtledeck structure:

I can put these into a pdf if you'd like, and email them to you.  Shoot me a pm with details, if you'd like.

the Baron

Hey, Goose, I dug out my copy last night, I'll scan the interior photos.  They're few, unfortunately, but there are a couple b/w photos, plus a b/w line sketch of the rear gunner's mount and turtledeck.

What's really maddening is that there is no photo of the radioman/gunner's seat.  I think he had a pedestal seat, rather than a ring and bucket, as on the TBD.  But there's no pic in the Squadron book.

If there is an existing SBC anywhere in the world, this would be a nice subject for a "Detail & Scale" book.

It also occurs to me now to look up any builds of the Classic Airframes kit, to see if they've got pictures of the parts.

I also fixed the links to my images at Photobucket.  Don't know what happened before, but they were showing as links, rather than images.

Hey, Goose, I dug out my copy last night, I'll scan the interior photos.  They're few, unfortunately, but there are a couple b/w photos, plus a b/w line sketch of the rear gunner's mount and turtledeck.

What's really maddening is that there is no photo of the radioman/gunner's seat.  I think he had a pedestal seat, rather than a ring and bucket, as on the TBD.  But there's no pic in the Squadron book.

If there is an existing SBC anywhere in the world, this would be a nice subject for a "Detail & Scale" book.

It also occurs to me now to look up any builds of the Classic Airframes kit, to see if they've got pictures of the parts.

the Baron

Sprue-ce Goose

the Baron

Ok, here's the followup to my thread from yesterday, 

I have the following kits started, but halted, and sitting on the bench:

Aurora SBC-3

Another nostalgia build.  This was to be an exercise in sanding and rescribing.  All the idiot marks are gone, and some lines rescribed, but I stopped working on this, when I couldn't decide to use the completely false interior, or scratchbuild a more accurate version.  But externally, not a bad kit, she cries out for finishing.

Brad

Herr Baron:

I realize I'm bringing back this thread from the un-dead.............but I was just sorting through my own AURORA SBC-3 kit ( nostalgia build ) deciding if building might now be feasible due to the on-line color profile paint schemes and the possibility of making my own decals. 

Every so often, I do a Google image search for information on that aircraft but have yet to locate cockpit photos.

I'm curious if you have located a source for cockpit photos?

Hey, Goose!

No, thanks for the bump!  Regarding the SBC, I have the Squadron "In Action" number.  I'm working pretty much from that.  Do you have it?  I can see about the photos.

I was unaware of a Squadron publication on that aircraft 

Well, that's a bite in the bum!  Apologies for the links rather than embedded images.  That appears to be a function of the new version of Photobucket.  I grabbed the same links I usually do.

And since it's been bumped, I ought to give an update on these kits.

I finished the P-47 razorback, in 2009:

and I finished the SBD, as my entry in the first Monogram Mafia build right here at FSM.  I finished it as an A-24:

I have revived the Essex build, and hope to finish it this year.  I have the hangar deck roughed in:

and attended to cleaning up the flight deck somewhat:

The other kits are all still in progress

Sprue-ce Goose

the Baron

Ok, here's the followup to my thread from yesterday, 

I have the following kits started, but halted, and sitting on the bench:

Aurora SBC-3

Another nostalgia build.  This was to be an exercise in sanding and rescribing.  All the idiot marks are gone, and some lines rescribed, but I stopped working on this, when I couldn't decide to use the completely false interior, or scratchbuild a more accurate version.  But externally, not a bad kit, she cries out for finishing.

Brad

Herr Baron:

I realize I'm bringing back this thread from the un-dead.............but I was just sorting through my own AURORA SBC-3 kit ( nostalgia build ) deciding if building might now be feasible due to the on-line color profile paint schemes and the possibility of making my own decals. 

Every so often, I do a Google image search for information on that aircraft but have yet to locate cockpit photos.

I'm curious if you have located a source for cockpit photos?

Hey, Goose!

No, thanks for the bump!  Regarding the SBC, I have the Squadron "In Action" number.  I'm working pretty much from that.  Do you have it?  I can see about the photos.

the Baron

Ok, here's the followup to my thread from yesterday, 

I have the following kits started, but halted, and sitting on the bench:

Aurora SBC-3

Another nostalgia build.  This was to be an exercise in sanding and rescribing.  All the idiot marks are gone, and some lines rescribed, but I stopped working on this, when I couldn't decide to use the completely false interior, or scratchbuild a more accurate version.  But externally, not a bad kit, she cries out for finishing.

Brad

Herr Baron:

I realize I'm bringing back this thread from the un-dead.............but I was just sorting through my own AURORA SBC-3 kit ( nostalgia build ) deciding if building might now be feasible due to the on-line color profile paint schemes and the possibility of making my own decals. 

Every so often, I do a Google image search for information on that aircraft but have yet to locate cockpit photos.

I'm curious if you have located a source for cockpit photos?

Well, here's the first of the 12 kits, finished, a Monogram 1/48 TBF.  I've finished her as a TBF-1C of VT-10 in the South Pacific, Fall 1942.

A view from the port side of the aircraft:

Colors are Tamiya Aircraft colors, Intermediate Blue over Intermediate Gray, with chalk pastels for weathering, especially to fade the upper surfaces, for the engine exhaust and for the wing gun blast smudges; and some washing for oil leak staining, and to pop the relief on the landing gear and wheels.

I added some interior detail, I hope you can see it well enough from these shots:

I added the radioman's seat, in the stowed position, from some sheet styrene, with masking tape for the seat belt.

Here's a shot of the middle cockpit:

and of the pilot's office:

If you remember this kit from your childhood, you may remember that Monogram included a decal of a generic instrument panel, instead of a molded, detailed panel.  I had the idea of making it a little more three dimensional, to dress it up.  I made a photocopy of the decal, first, to use as a template.  Then I cut a piece of clear plastic (the collar stiffener from a new dress shirt-never throw away anything!), and used the template as a guide to punch out the holes for the instruments.  I painted that flat black.  Then, I put the decal on a piece of styrene stock, cut to shape, and used white glue to attach the overlay.  It looks a little better than the decal.

Here's a shot of the aircraft from the starboard side:

I ran into a snag when installing the turret; it wouldn't fit in the opening.  The cockpit floor has a shelf at the back, and that shelf stuck out too far to allow the turret into place.  I had to pry that shelf up a little, to get the turret in, but then, the canopy wouldn't fit at that corner.  At that point, I declared victory on this kit, and considered it a lesson learned for the second Monogram TBF I have on the bench, which is also ready to have the turret installed.  I can remove that shelf, sand it down, then install the turret and then re-install the shelf.

Here is a view of this bird from above:

Despite the fit problems inherent to a kit with working features (which I disabled, by design), I enjoyed building this.  I'm a nostalgia builder, and this really took me back to my early days.  I had fun building it.  I hope you enjoy seeing the results!  And to Hammer-no aftermarket pieces touched this model (except the decals), all details came from the sprue box and old lamp cord!

Regards,

Brad

Thanks, Sean, I'll check out the group build

I'm with you about Aurora.  You probably remember, as I do, when they were just about the only one on the block who made some of these subjects.  And if we noticed that something wasn't quite accurate, there was no aftermarket resin or photoetch.  We cracked open a radio and scavenged the wire and little bits out of it.  Not to put down the aftermarket stuff, or contemporary kits, they're fantastic.  But I just like doing some of these things from scratch.

Brad - I would like to invite you up to the "No More Excuses" GB. There are several of us who have "Shelf Sallies" taking up space .  Wow all of these kits are Fantastic, I am a old kit builder myself. I will pull an old Airfix or Matchbox kit over the TamiG's 9 out of 10 times.  I am really impressed with your figure painting, I hope to be able to get that good someday. 

Aurora kits rule I will be building the old Gotha Bomber for the Knights in the Sky II GB

Well, I'll still be casting and painting toy soldiers, too.  This just applies to plastic models.

And of course, I made the normal sort of personal improvement resolutions, too 

I'm happy with procrastination and my "modeling" ADD.

Good luck though! I will give you this though; at least all yours are within the same period and mostly within the same cat. Unlike mine: 2x 120mm figs, 1x 1/35 modern dio, 1x 1/48 WWII bomber, and 1x 1/48 modern jet fighter! (That's what I mean by "modeling" ADD!)

(maybe I'l take on your challenge next year .... or maybe in '11 ... or .....)