Trumpeter SBD Dauntless

[@hirstyboy97]

I have built the 48th scale version of this a few times and it’s my favourite air wing of ww2 I will be purchasing this scale version, you made a fine build my friend,I will be using your video as a guide,great job 👍

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you very much :)

[@robbo1068]

Terrific job and an excellent final result.....you absolutely did this kit justice! I have a 1/32 Dauntless in my stash to build sometime soon....thanks for the inspiration and your vid is a great guide for my future build. That first tune took me back to the 1960's psychedelic pop rock.....memories!! Look forward to seeing what you next have for us.

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you very much! Be patient with the fuselage fit, it wasn't easy.

[@chrisworthington1027]

I've been building for years in the 1/48 scale, I recently purchased a couple kits in 1/32. I'm really looking forward to the upgrade in size. Great job on this build your an inspiration

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you :) I find 1:32 easier on the eyes... (we're not getting any younger) and easier to detail.. Good luck on your builds!

[@kees1705vanwely]

Awesome, worthy the remembrance of John James Powers, Dusty Kleiss, Dick Best and many others.

[@DavidRLentz-b7i]

Absolutely! The Battle of Midway, 4-7 June, 1942.

[@jayrohumbertoguzmanvalenci1351]

What a beautiful model! Excellent work. I will getting my oun Dauntless in this scale, soon! I like the way that you work with the motor. Greetings from Guatemala, the Land of Quetzal Bird, simbol of Freedom.

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you very much :) I hope your Dauntless looks great! Greetings from Greece :)

[@DavidMartin-ym2te]

The best weathering I have seen. Not too regular like too many pre-shaded models. Very nice indeed.

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you very much :)

[@robertsalanon2909]

Belle maquette avec des couleurs réussies , bravo ...Great plane ...

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you very much!

[@razif6916]

Hell yeah..was waiting for this build

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Hope you liked it :)

[@davidharrington1133]

Lovely details, ordered one from China today based on this vid.

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Good choice!

[@aigarslindentals8315]

So perfect work ! Congratulations !

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you very much! :)

[@robertomander6030]

it's simply fantastic!!!!!!...but...a lot of work for the internal part only that then they are covered !!!...sorry for my bad english...congratulation, it's a super work!!!

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you very much:) Your english is fine... I know it's too much work that won't be seen.. but.. this is the spirit of model building... And besides... there IS this vid to show what's inside, isn't it? :)

[@kourampiedaki]

AMAZING, MIND BLOWING I AM SPEECHLESS 😁🤯😁🤯😁🤯

[@marshallblanton3690]

When’s the next build video coming out. Your video on the 1/32 revell mustang brought me to your channel i was looking for more info on the kit and ended up getting it

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Soon.... I came across some other activities and have been a little behind on my building and editing duties ;) Thanx for watching!

[@plan4u56]

Great SBD!!! But Hats Off to Your REASERCH on the Main Bottom Fuselage Flap PAINTED THE BOTTOM COLOR of the SBD!! For those Who May Doubt....Look at the Naval Aviation Museum's SBD-2 which saw Battle of Midway has over 200 bullet holes (now Covered up) That aircraft has that flap painted bottom color of aircraft... I believe that a museum in Michigan obtained a SBD from the bottom of one of the Great Lakes...Photos show the center flap the Bottom Color NOT RED.... Its only my opinion that at some point the Center flap started to get painted Red.. But I never have Read or seen a Directive on the matter..I Know, Really?! Color of a Center Flap?! Attention to Detail, it's important... How Important is up to the Builder.... Blessings Thank You Darrell Killingsworth

[@mikemontgomery2654]

Great work! I'm still not convinced the kit itself is really a 5 out of 5. I have yet to find a trumpeter kit that is truly a 5.

[@wbpsmodels3452]

It was my first trumpeter kit but somewhere I read that this one was Trumpeter's best kit... I guess I was lucky... But it was really excellent... Great detail, no flash, good fit... Thank you for watching :)

[@mikemontgomery2654]

@@wbpsmodels3452 One thing I'll warn you about now, with trumpeter kits, is the instrument panels. They are so hit or miss when it comes to detail, if they provide any at all.

[@bankamarvin2269]

Definitely 5 of 5.

[@bankamarvin2269]

It is a 5 out of 5

[@bankamarvin2269]

It is a 5 of 5 kit easily.

[@stephenmcdonald7908]

It looks very interesting

[@stuartbremner9680]

Very nice build 👍

[@joshuariddensdale2126]

I have this kit on my wishlist of kits to buy. Even though I'm getting more into collecting than building kits.

[@wbpsmodels3452]

It is a great kit... Not the easiest but really good one.. Mind the fitting of the two fuselage halves when you close the model... it gave me some trouble, I had to cut a few notches to close it. Thanks for watching. :)

[@Emtbtoday]

Missing your front canopy compass at the top of the front canopy it's tiny on the sprue just double check! What I'm noticing with mine is quite alot of levers from the side pannals missing! The holes are on the parts you glue on and like the lever ball head Moulded on but no levers on sprues I've had to make a couple now and the oxygen can pipes needs more added and quite a few parts from the heads on the engine whare the HT plugs at top go to nowhere lol alot of people say this is a brilliant kit but if you do your research you see its pretty poor and wrong in places hopefully we get a new 1.35 from border model's after the next Japanese "Kate" they are now working on for a battle of midway seatbelts are unusable aswell and front one's are missing the shoulder straps! I've ordered a set of new 3D printed seats with belts from thing site just waiting on them coming tomorrow to get it finished up now!

[@WACRE44]

That’s awesome thanks best one I ever seen!

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you very much! :)

[@StephenDawson-ih5mm]

Nice build like the paint job. Steve U.K.

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@azzaob510]

nice work, great video build and easy to follow :)

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you :)

[@tez4274]

That's a stunner

[@barrywhitfield930]

Great build!

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you Barry :)

[@hirstyboy97]

Great build 👍🏼👍🏼

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you very much :)

[@neilmacke4039]

Hi sure I built a dauntless in the 70’s that had a bomb release mechanism?! Or am I dementia’s lol Also my first kit was a spitfire 1/72 that had strings like a puppet but not sure if Airfix or matchbox. Cheers

[@tontonmimite1]

MAGNIFIQUE

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Mille Merci :)

[@hectorcarranza5870]

Do you sell finished Douglas SBD Dauntless. Thanks.

[@wbpsmodels3452]

I have not considered selling any of my models, but even if I did, the Dauntless was in the display when it crashed and is seriously damaged. Thank you for asking!

[@ramstacp]

Absolutely amazing! I’m relatively new to modeling and just bought a kit. Can you tell me what kind of glue you were using?

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you very much! Welcome to the hobby! I'm mainly using Tamiya glue (extra thin or extra thin fast).

[@Jack-Fleming]

Getting those 2 halves together was indeed a lot of fiddling, I ended with cutting two unnecessary studs in the hull.

[@wbpsmodels3452]

So did I (not the hull, the deck studs, amounts to the same).. It WAS a hassle, wasn't it? Thanks for watching! :)

[@Jack-Fleming]

@@wbpsmodels3452 Yes the deck stud's, it seemed they missed it bij a 1/2 mm. Love to watch and subscribed. Keep up the good work.

[@paulmargeson9858]

Nice!

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@cringer5104]

👏👏👏

[@LeMondeDeJudge]

Beuatiful !!!

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Thank you! :)

[@DavidRLentz-b7i]

David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Wednesday, 28 August, 2024) This kit looks quite intriguing. From what I hear, see, and read, Trumpeter kits, for all their considerable resources and determined efforts, can be uneven in their quality of manufacture, accuracy of design, etc. Their end results range from quite good to mistake-ridden, or rather mediocre of details-neither old Matchbox or Frog, nor new Tamiya or MiniArt. (By the way, if you as yet have had no acquaintance with MiniArt’s capability, go have a good, long, close look at their new kit of Republic’s late-war P-47D Thunderbolt “Teardrop Canopy” USAAF Fighter, in 1:48th-scale.) Still, I remain optimistic for the Chinese company. Have you seen (online, in person, etc.) the Merit International (now I ♥ Kits) 1:18th-scale conventional assembly kit-yes; given these oversized plastic, pre-assembled, pre-painted, terribly expensive replicas I over the past decade or so have seen here and there, that more than surprised me, too!-of the Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless USN Carrier-Based Dive Bomber (dated in the spring of 1942)? I watched someone building one in a video on his KZbin channel, AlexModeling (Monday, 2 July, 2018). I would like your assessment of it, please. Next, would you know if any kit makers offer a standard injection-mold polystyrene kit (CAD/CAM-based 3D printing, cast resin, photo-etched nickel-silver augmentation, too) of a wartime operational version (circa spring, 1942) of this aircraft in 1:24th-scale? In addition to the above three, I include in this ambitious multi-kit project 4) Academy’s (once Accurate Miniatures) 1:48th-scale Dauntless models. 3) Two of Airfix’s 1:72nd-scale kits of the nimble attacker. 4) Two of Brengun’s 1:144th-scale SBD-5 replicas (which may require backdating to an earlier variant); Yao’s Studio also makes 1:144th-scale kits of the doughty dive-bomber. 5) Three or four of Trumpeter’s 1:200nd-scale Dauntless miniatures (the manufacturer produces sets of these for their three Yorktown-class USN Aircraft Carrier kits). My plan is to build them all airborne, their propellers spinning, all positioned in a rakish angle portraying a steep dive, their red dive brakes deployed, their bomb yokes dropped down, set in a forced-perspective ærial diorama (FoPÆD) of a fateful south Pacific encounter as the warbirds queue high above a large, highly-detailed miniature of the Imperial Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi on the last day, at the last hour, it had steamed on its own power . . . .

[@Steve-dr7rr]

Are theses kits expensive

[@wbpsmodels3452]

This one was moderately priced but wasn't cheap. (~65 Euro)

[@Steve-dr7rr]

Do you thin your paint

[@wbpsmodels3452]

Yes, I usually thin my paints around 50-60% (50-60% paint, the rest is thinner)

[@simonbaker6962]

I had to turn off because of the annoying music. Shame.

[@wbpsmodels3452]

You can always turn the sound off... after all, I don't narrate... ;)

[@stevethomas-cc5lz]

what green is that your using on the cockpit name of paint and part number please if you can . i use tamiya paints but i dont see that color anywhere

[@wbpsmodels3452]

I don't remember the part number but the color is Vallejo Air Zink Chromate (as shown at 8:03).