1/48 Italeri SBD 5 Dauntless

Gallery Article by Rodrigo Caselli Belem on Feb 19 2016

 

      

This is my beautiful SBD5 Dauntless 1:48 from Italeri.

The kit was built almost totally out of the box including decals. The only add was the seatbelts of photoetched. The kit is pretty good, except for the link between wings and fuselage, that need a little amount of filler, and the canopy that is not totally fit when in the open position.

After a coat of Vallejo black surface primer it was free hand airbrushed using Vallejo Air paints. The scheme used was American Navy Version B – SBD5 – VMSB-231 – Major Elmer Glidden and Sgt James Boile; Marshall Island 1944. 

The colors used were:

Interior

  • Olive green Tamya XF-58

Cockpit details

  • Nato black and aluminium Model air ValIejo

Fuselage          

  • Under - Dead White Game air Vallejo

  • Middle – US intermediate blue Model air Vallejo

  • Top – Signal blue Model air Vallejo

Machine gun – Gun metal Model Masters

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After the main areas were painted, I then added some post shading and weathering with black and gray pastel chalk. The decals laid down beautifully with decal set from Model Master, finished with a coat of Artfix matt varnish. 

The antenna wire was made with 0.2mm fishing line.
Enjoy the pictures.

Rodrigo Caselli Belem

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Photos and text © by Rodrigo Caselli Belem