AWESOME "When Hell Freezes Over!" Groupbuild...

Reasoned

CHECK THIS LINK OUT!

http://www.air-and-space.com/Curtiss%20SB2C%20Helldiver.htm

BTW, I have the AM SB2C-4 kit, decided to look in the box...WTF??? what gives with the IP decals???? there's like 20 of these tiny dial decals.

I have been looking at that link since Manny started this thread...

Hans, I think you need to have a talk with the CAF wing leader of the Helldiver and tell them they painted the Helldiver wrong. Looks more like Blue Angel Blue than Dark Sea Blue..

Did some initial test-fitting of the big ugly beast tonight. She may not be a looker in the traditional sense, but she's got presence. 

Overall, the ProModeler kit reminds me of the PV-1 I'm working on, albeit with a few fit issues, more flash, and those stupid big Monogram sprue tabs. Oh, and a very sloppy grip at the stabilizers. 

How big is this sucker? Here it is next to my paint mule, Fail Frank, which is somewhere between a Fw 190 and a P-51. 

Also couldn't resist picking up the Eduard zoom interior set. Looks very nice. I'm tempted to spring for the set that includes the flaps, even though the kit has some basic PE dive flaps. If the Eduard ones for this are anything like the set for the AM Dauntless, they're a major leap ahead. That and I just really don't want to drill out the plastic centers!

Damn you Doogs and flashing that beautiful Helldiver before mine has had a chance to even ship!! I was ok waiting but now I'm going to be peeking out the curtains everytime I hear a car drive by waiting for the delivery to make it home..

Need a styrene fix!!!!!

pzl66

Damn you Doogs and flashing that beautiful Helldiver before mine has had a chance to even ship!! I was ok waiting but now I'm going to be peeking out the curtains everytime I hear a car drive by waiting for the delivery to make it home..

Need a styrene fix!!!!!

Glad to help!

Pulled the trigger on the Eduard dive flaps. The kit PE...not bad...but the center plastic is strange and has nothing on this:

DoogsATX

pzl66:

Damn you Doogs and flashing that beautiful Helldiver before mine has had a chance to even ship!! I was ok waiting but now I'm going to be peeking out the curtains everytime I hear a car drive by waiting for the delivery to make it home..

Need a styrene fix!!!!!

 

Glad to help!

Pulled the trigger on the Eduard dive flaps. The kit PE...not bad...but the center plastic is strange and has nothing on this:

Len

Are you going to make your 1/48 scale Helldiver look better than ChukW's Helldiver that he did a couple of years ago?

fermis

Manstein's revenge:

....I wonder if Fermis was bluffin' about throwing in on this one?

 

When have I ever bluffed?!!!

Definitely in with the 1/72 (on it's way to me now)....maybe....MAYBE...I'll throw in a 1/48 Pro-Mod as well. Starting back to work next week, so I've got 6 months of slow building....even slower than I've been lately.

Mikeym_us

Are you going to make your 1/48 scale Helldiver look better than ChukW's Helldiver that he did a couple of years ago?

 

Unlikely......that is a very tall order!!!

Chuk did set the bar high when he did his Helldiver. And if Manny even pulls that off in 1/72 we may need to chip in and buy him a seeing eye dog.

fermis

Mikeym_us:

Are you going to make your 1/48 scale Helldiver look better than ChukW's Helldiver that he did a couple of years ago?

 

 

Unlikely......that is a very tall order!!!

troublemaker66

 

DoogsATX:

 

 

pzl66:

Damn you Doogs and flashing that beautiful Helldiver before mine has had a chance to even ship!! I was ok waiting but now I'm going to be peeking out the curtains everytime I hear a car drive by waiting for the delivery to make it home..

Need a styrene fix!!!!!

 

 

Glad to help!

Pulled the trigger on the Eduard dive flaps. The kit PE...not bad...but the center plastic is strange and has nothing on this:

 

Listen Doogs, I know you`re a talented modeler and all but did you really LOOK at that picture?Some of those parts look microscopic to me. I`m not saying you can`t do it, I`m just gonna be watching intently... I`m sticking to the kit PE `cause if I had the Eduard set they`d wind up in the spares box after I mangled them... Hopefully, yours will be on your kit. Good luck !

 

Len

Len - most of those flaps, are, I believe, one or two big folding pieces. Honestly they don't scare me anything like the flaps Eduard does for the AM Dauntless. 

72nd Cyber-Hobby kit has some wicked and small PE dive-flaps:

Scheme I like the best:

Manstein's revenge

72nd Cyber-Hobby kit has some wicked and small PE dive-flaps:

Scheme I like the best:

I approve that scheme for your finished kit...

That is a good look, Blue/Blue/white with the white flashes. I've got a Corsair with a similar pattern, a very slick look.

So tomorrow is the big day for the big tailed beast! I wont be able to start right away as I am waiting to get my pro modeler Helldiver... Will be watching you guys til I can join.

Got my Eduard flaps and HVAR rockets today and I'm planning to start at midnight tonight, but once the HK B-25 shows Thursday progress will slow considerably...

Still waiting on my copy to arrive

fermis

Still waiting on my copy to arrive

The 72 or the 48?

fermis

Still waiting on my copy to arrive

pzl66

 

fermis:

 

Still waiting on my copy to arrive

 

 

The 72 or the 48?

1/72.........1/48s been in the stash a while.

Guess what I got today!!!!

Sweet deal!! Though Manny may think you are still bluffing and just pulled the picture off the internet, will need to be verified with AZ ice tea..

fermis

Guess what I got today!!!!

 

Guess you will have that one done tomorrow huh?

Hercmech

fermis:

Guess what I got today!!!!

 

 

Guess you will have that one done tomorrow huh?

Finished it yesterday!!!

Yah, I'm that fast!!!

fermis

Guess what I got today!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manstein's revenge

 

Looks like that Helldiver is giving the Yamato...errrrrrrrrrrr---HELL!!!!

 

If only it were...diving

fermis

Guess what I got today!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manstein's revenge

 

fermis:

 

Guess what I got today!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He's bluffing---that doesn't look like his thumb...

 

That boxing comes with a thumb?!?!?

Manstein's revenge

That is an awsome looking kit.

*wishing my beast was here for me to work on.