1/48 Accurate Miniatures SBD-3 Dauntless 

by Ralph Emerson "Shonen Red" Dabao

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This is the Accurate Miniature's SBD-3 Dauntless with markings used during the battle of Coral Sea. The kit is built out of the box style with no aftermarket parts. The construction of the kit seems fine. Superdetailing those small parts is quite hard specially there are many of them to detail up. 

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For the interior paint, instead of using interior green, I've substituted it with Tamiya flat green. The underside paint was painted using Tamiya Light Blue and the upperside with Tamiya US Blue. For the weathering of the kit, I've used a silver undercoat then chip them away using an angled tweezers. The black marks were done using pastels.

Ralph

Photos and text © by Shonen Red