After donating some parts to the 'Weta' that I did a couple of years ago, I was left with this, the venerable old Airfix 1/72nd scale Douglas Dauntless, minus weaponry. Hmmm... What to do... Looking through some pictures on the net brought a very colourful Hellcat onto my screen, and I had the answer: A Dauntless target tug, which of course it never was. This is, after all, Silly Week.
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No serious modifications, but a lot of stuff left off, like 3 bombs, the center-line bomb slinger thingy, machine
gun(s) and mount. Stretched sprue aerial, and gear doors were replaced with plastic card. Scaled up, the original doors would have cause enough drag that dive brakes would be unnecessary.