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Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: GTX_Admin on December 08, 2024, 01:36:15 AM

Title: Douglas SBD Dauntless/A-24 Banshee Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: GTX_Admin on December 08, 2024, 01:36:15 AM
A thread for your Douglas SBD Dauntless/A-24 Banshee Ideas and Inspiration.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Douglas_SBD_Dauntless_dropping_a_bomb%2C_circa_in_1942.jpg)
Title: Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: GTX_Admin on December 08, 2024, 01:36:44 AM
To begin, what about a Portuguese or Turkish one?
Title: Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: finsrin on December 08, 2024, 06:53:23 AM
Did build a modernized mixed power version SBDJ.
https://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=2747.msg171309#msg171309
Title: Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: Old Wombat on December 08, 2024, 03:53:12 PM
I have an Italeri version that will end up in RAN colours.
Title: Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: Volkodav on December 08, 2024, 10:06:37 PM
I have an Italeri version that will end up in RAN colours.

Nice
Title: Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless/A-24 Banshee Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: KiwiZac on March 19, 2025, 10:59:34 AM
Agreed, I like this idea.
Title: Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: Old Wombat on March 19, 2025, 11:05:15 AM
I have an Italeri version that will end up in RAN colours.

Nice

Agreed, I like this idea.

 :smiley: :smiley:

One day!  ;)  Time & more consistent mojo would be helpful, though! ::)  :icon_crap:
Title: Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless/A-24 Banshee Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: upnorth on March 19, 2025, 01:18:16 PM
I wonder about clandestinely getting some to the Greeks for their resistance against Italy and Germany during WWII. It would makea good precursor to their usage of the Curtiss Helldiver in  the post war years.
Title: Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: GTX_Admin on March 20, 2025, 01:13:18 AM
I have an Italeri version that will end up in RAN colours.


Perhaps as an addition to the Southern Sea Eagles - The Alternative RAN FAA (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=3420.msg50745#msg50745) story?
Title: Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless Ideas and Inspiration
Post by: Old Wombat on March 20, 2025, 10:42:05 AM
I have an Italeri version that will end up in RAN colours.


Perhaps as an addition to the Southern Sea Eagles - The Alternative RAN FAA ([url]http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=3420.msg50745#msg50745[/url]) story?


Yes & No. ;)

It's for my own RA Marines time-line but there are sufficient overlaps that it could fit into either. :smiley:

(In my RAMs t-l Australia's first aircraft carrier is the pre-WW1 Dreadnought-class HMAS Australia conversion (I have the kit. I have the styrene. Need the time & mojo.  ;)  ).