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Ahoy Just finished my build thread on the infamous TBD the failure at Midway. Not to good of a day out here gloom and doom day gray clouds and getting cold but I took her out for some pictures scince the build id concluded. I would likje to thank everyone here on the forum for your replies I am honered. Boats.

Build completed Ahoy The TBD Devestator build is now completed I will have to do a little touch up here and there all that was left from the last post was the landing gear tyres, and torpedo. Landing gear struts made from paper tubeing,Tyres made from laminated cardboard sanded to shape and paointed flat black. tommorow i will take her outside for some finished picxtures nad have the finished build pix on the finished builds forum. boats

Wing assemblies and installation Ahoy Here is the update for the night the build still continues been at this all day long old boats is getting tuckered out. Ok for today is the assembly of the wings the wings in ther kit come in 8 sections a center section 2 outer wing panels 2 inner wing panels and 2 wing tips. first the sections were cutted out off the sheets formed and glued together. I added the wing ribs and sparts to the wings I set the wing assembly aside to dry for about 5 hours came later and burnished out the seams ans smooth them out. Next I glued the intire wing unit

Ahoy Helldiver Thanks for the reply on my TBD, Yep a good project work on in the office make certain you keep the janitor busy cleaning up all those paper chips that fall on the floor LOLlllllllllllll It will keep you busy thanks Boats

Fuselage unit completed Ahoy Here is the update for today starting to look like a TBD without a doubt. Fuselage assembly completed starting with touch up here and there I added more interier detail inside the cockpit compartment. when that was done I got started on the upper cockpit compartment decking that fits flush with the top of the fuselage sides. painted same zinc chromate yellow. when this was finished I started on the canopy sections first cutting out the canopy sections from the printed sheets I cutted out all of the window openings. I painted the inside of the canopy fra

Completeing the fuselage assembly Ahoy Here is the update for the now more will follow this evening as the build continues. Here the three photos show the ebgine placement details on the kit like that of most card kits they hardly give you anything that resembles and egine nothing but just a printing of the engine. Useing woode dowling chucked up to a turret lathe i turned 7 clyinder heads and constructed the govewrnor ring and pushrods all paibted flat black when dry picked out with aluminum color. letting this dry will return to paint the governor ring and installation of the th

Closeing of the fuselage skin and tail feathers Ahoy Here is the update for the night, All fuselage skins are installed to the fuselage unit. Next I went to the stabilizer and rudder assemblies, I added the 2 spars to the fuselage unit and let dry. when dry I constructed the tail feathers and installed same.when this unit was dried I made a batch of blue gray paint all waterbased I used black, White Green and blue mixed well useing a dry brush I touched up the weather useing the blue. Still needs more touch up I have far more work on the fuselage before I get started on the rest

Cockpit details Ahoy Here is the update of the build assemblying the cockpit compartment. first cutting out all the parts to make up the cockpit compartment were trwated seprately by adding this strips of paper to raise all panel frames as shown on the photos aftewr all parts were glued to position I airbrushed same with zinc chromate yellow. Still adding more details to the cockpit then i will close up the fuselage.Boats.

Ahoy this will be my first build log here on this delightfull and wonderfull forum. This is a card kit I had for years and decided to build it here. for those who are not aquainted with card kits the following photos will give you an I dea how these models are assembled and their secrets. I been building card for many years on end. My favorite is plastic with the economy of the skyrocketing cost of plastic kits has turned me back to the bygone age of card modeling. Card modeling in the USA was popular at one time until the event of plastic and balsa wood came to view. the kit comes

Ahoy Holmes Thank you for your wonderfull reply.Yes the PB@Y is named after coronado. and their PBY is named after Catalina island. Both aircraft were used through out the war and after. The PB2Y was striken from the navcy register in 1953. They used the Martin Mars exclusively. The Mars was striken in 1956 and sold for scrap. They were saved from their demise when canada forest Industries bought from the Navy and used them as Borate Bombers only two such example exist today and still flying. I bought this kit in 1966 from Archers Hobby world the worlds first mail order house

Ahoy Here is a old vacuform kit of the consolidated PB2-Y Coronado flyingboat. The company Sutcliff dont make this kit anymore, It went out of buisness in 1972 I bought this in 1966, I searched a lot of modeling forums to see if this aircraft was ever modeled by anyone except me. Boats

Ahoy Darth thank you sir for your reply some day i will try and locate another kit of this and have it painted with White upper decking and polished aluminum. this was a good kit to build pretty expensive at the time. I hate to see how much they are now $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Thank you for the reply. Boats

Ahoy Here is another of my collections i found laying around the hpouse that I Forgot I had. I had this bird for 9 years first time it seen the light of day in 9 years after I built it. This is the Minicraft 1/72 Boeing 377 Statocruiser This truely was a delightfull kit and build after I completed the model i had second thoughts that I should have painted the upper decking White and the rest was polished Aluminum. I went ahead and built her straight from the box. I used Kitchen foil cemented down with duluted contact cement I used acetone for thinning.

Ahoy aircommando130 Thanks for the reply I am honered. Monogram produced four different versions of the famed C-47. 3 of them were box scaled not certain what scale around 1/72 or perhaps smaller. the first kit they released was the C-47 Skytrain with a paratrooper poseing under the plane when he bailed out. plane No.2 is the DC-3 TWA. by 1967 they released the AC-47 Spooky or Puff in the same scale. 11 years later they came out with the 1/48 scale kit. the rest is history. Thanks for the reply. Boats :stupid:

Ahoy Piano Guy Thank you for your wonderful reply, this is a excelent kit like most kits in general there are a few issues here and there. I never had or heard that Trumpeter made one of these kits if so they are expensive and miles better then the Monogram kit. I cant see anything wrong with the Monogram kit the onlt plastic surgury involved on my build is that I dropped the flaps and filled in the front and sides of the flap wells. and adding some interier structures to the flap wells, Monogram made a great kit A kit that is 35 years old still can hold a candel next