Here is what was built on this quiet Saturday afternoon.

I know, it is a wow!  Wait CallSignOwl until I get to the cockpit, it seems to be almost double the amount of steps to assemble.

Toshi

Thank you BrandonK, so do I.  It was between the Avenger or a Dauntless.

Toshi

Yes Jay Jay, you inspired me with your B-26 engine build!

Toshi

Looking good Toshi. I love the Avengers.

BK

There you go Toshi, great looking engine.  I knew you could do it.

I worked on this engine for most of the day.  It's probably not correct as far as wiring goes but this is the first time I did anything close to this.  In reality, this is my first ever scratch build wires I've done.  

I looked at a lot of photos and this is as close to what I can conceive.  Thank you for your time forum members.

Toshi

Cool, thanks for posting this Toshi as I will use the color chart on mine too.

If you look closely at the schematic build sheet you will notice the paint codes, guess what, there are no paint codes offered at all.  Last night I googled the paint codes and found them, where else?  Here on the FSM forum dated from 2005, this kit debut was 2004.  There are a total of sixteen pages, WOW!

To my fellow forum members,

i have just finished building my Visible B-17G "Flying Fortress".  Now I'll start on the Trumpeter 1:32 TBF Avenger, here is the start begining with a part of the engine.

Toshi

To hogfanfs,

It looks like a giant pregnant guppy!  LOL!  I hope I won't disappoint members like you with my build, thank you for the read and reply.

Toshi

I have to agree, that will be one huge build once complete! Looking forward to your progress Toshi!

To Gamera,

So true, so true.  LOL!

To GMorrison,

Three crew and a big torpedo = Humongous!  LOL!!

Thanks guys, it's nothing- took me about three years to finish that 1/48th kit- Toshi will probably have his done in less than two weeks 

Built one in 9th grade. Very few shape errors; overall a great kit.  Definitely not one of Tamiyas fab 4, but great none the less.

Three crew and a big torpedo inside.

LOL!  One look and you wonder how the hell it even attempted to take off the carrier deck.  Your Avenger looks awesome.  Thanks for stopping by.

Toshi

Yup, BrandonK, when I saw the fuselage I freaked out.  Wow, why so big?  LOL!

No problem, this should be a fun build.  Such a huge kit if I may say so.  Thanks for stopping by.

Toshi

OOOOO that's right purty Gamera.  I hope mine turns out near as well.

This is a real monster. I've got on in the stash. It's supposed to be one of Trumpeter's best, but it's almost a direct copy of the AM kit, so that's no surprising. Im wathcing

Whoa yeah! I've built the 1/48th Accurate Miniatures kit and it's friggin' huge. In 1/32nd it would have to be gigantic. I've seen two of the actual planes in museums-  hard to imagine something that big could ever land on a carrier! 

That's gonna be a HUGE build. 1/32 Avenger, WOWZERS !!

Man, nice kit ,Toshi !

 I'll br following this one for sure since I have an Accurate Miniatures !/48 scale  in the stash.  I was going to start my TBF-1C before the B-26 but the box is loaded with a high parts count and a bunch of am stuff, so it was rather intimidating to me.  Since I started messing with the simple Monogram B-26's AM parts, I feel better about the TBF now though and I think I am ready to jump into building it.  Your TBF will be a good learning tool for me.