Torpedo Bomber Douglas (Devastator)
Box art
First bits of resin assembled and some interior paints applied.
The resin radial engine (not shown) drew first blood as I used my razor saw, second blood with a croc clip pinging off (which I'd been using to keep my fingers away from said razor saw) and third blood of a sort when I nearly superglued two fingers together. :-D :-D
(No I haven't chucked it out the window, it's just out of the photo.)
The resin radial engine (not shown) drew first blood as I used my razor saw, second blood with a croc clip pinging off (which I'd been using to keep my fingers away from said razor saw) and third blood of a sort when I nearly superglued two fingers together. :-D :-D
(No I haven't chucked it out the window, it's just out of the photo.)
Bit more interior paint work.
The aforementioned offending/offensive engine. Needs a bit more work yet.
Aft twin machine guns assembled, various other bits ready for assembly soon.
Interior almost ready to seal up... the two fuselage halves are almost meeting due to some surgery on the cockpit parts but Mr Filler and Mr Surfacer will be making an appearance...
If I hadn't unboxed this myself, I could believe that this was a Bertie Basset / Frankenstein kit bash from several different kits merged together.
These wing tops and bottoms don't even have the same silhouette (OML, "outer mould line", as we'd call it at work) - there's going to be some serious slicing, shaving, filing, sanding and filling in my future.
Call me fussy, but I like parts to have at least a passing acquaintance with each other :-D :-D
These wing tops and bottoms don't even have the same silhouette (OML, "outer mould line", as we'd call it at work) - there's going to be some serious slicing, shaving, filing, sanding and filling in my future.
Call me fussy, but I like parts to have at least a passing acquaintance with each other :-D :-D
See, this is the sort of thing I'm pulling my hair out* with - this gun ring should fit inside the fuselage - see next photo.
* what little remains of it.
* what little remains of it.
Not my photo, off t'interwebz, but look: this is how that gun ring *should* fit!!
Source/(c): modelingmadness.com/review/preww2/huitbd.htm
Source/(c): modelingmadness.com/review/preww2/huitbd.htm
Looking "a bit plane" now.
Filler then Mr Surfacer.
This kit has drawn blood twice now :-D
Filler then Mr Surfacer.
This kit has drawn blood twice now :-D
The Devastation (!) continues... I think I'm going to have to use a low resolution camera from now on to hide the many, many flaws, bodges and general ick. *sob*
Not my finest work!!
Not my finest work!!
The decals/markings I'm doing - T-1 Bu.No. 0285, VT-2 off of USS Lexington at the Battle of Coral Sea, 1942.
The Devastation is finished - as good as I'm going to get it.
Doesn't look too bad at this distance
Just don't look too closely
Torpedo ready to launch, and bomb aimer's window open.
Rear cockpit retracted to poke the guns out
Landed amongst my USN Pacific CAG - Avenger (its successor) hovering ominously behind it.
Comments
28 18 June 2023, 14:01
CuajeteI have always wanted this kit. But this kind of thing is what makes me still not decided to have it, while I keep hoping that some manufacturer will release a more decent Devastator than this one from AZ and the one from Valom.
You're doing a good job of fighting 👍
25 June 2023, 18:36
Russ HainesI think we should start sending begging letters to Tamiya, Airfix etc. to make a nice modern tooled one where parts that are supposed to join together actually fit together for a start :-D
26 June 2023, 17:11
Russ HainesYep, just flush surface on the fuselage to butt the tailplanes up against 🙄
Any resemblance to an aircraft at the end is going to be purely coincidental... !!
27 June 2023, 05:36
Jan PetersIt looks like a devastator from here.
The journey may be hard, but it will be worth it in the end.
27 June 2023, 06:00
