**** DONE: GB-61 1/48 Douglas TBD-1A Floatplane – Carrier and Maritime Aircraft

[A4K]

Looks lovely Vic, great work.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Donivanp]

Nice

 

[Airframes]

Really nice work there Vic, very neat.

 

[Crimea_River]

Good looking details Vic and, no, I've not seen that brand before.

 

[fubar57]

Great looking innards Vic and with Andy on the harnesses

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Many thanks gents. I managed a bit more today and after deciding some little switched were too much bother. As you can see all the cockpit parts are now in place, tomorrow I'll have a go at joining the two halves together, from preliminary checks this looks to be a major headache. We will see.

I have a question with this next pic. This is the torpedo aiming window on the underside of the fuselage and it had doors that close up as one would see with a bomb bay. My question is, should it be cockpit green or chromate yellow! Any suggestions or pointers please, and thanks for any input.

 

[Grant Barr]

Sweet looking interior Vic! As for your question on the "bomb bay" I would be inclined towards chromate yellow, but I'm sure more knowledgeable folk than I will give a more definitive answer.

Keep up the great work!

 

[Wayne Little]

Great work Vic, that work looks great.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Sweet looking interior Vic! As for your question on the "bomb bay" I would be inclined towards chromate yellow, but I'm sure more knowledgeable folk than I will give a more definitive answer.

Keep up the great work!

Thanks Grant and as you can see at this point I've hedged my bets but have to confess I'm leaning towards the chromate.

 

[Donivanp]

Anything outside oh the cockpit should be chromate green . Great looking interior.

 

[SaparotRob]

Beautiful work. Nice documenting it before it's hidden.

 

[fubar57]

PM sent Vic

 

[A4K]

Looks great Vic.
I agree with Don on the Chromate Green for the bomb bay, but disagree on all parts outside the cockpit being that colour. U/C wells for example can be all sorts of colours.

 

[Crimea_River]

Looks great Vic and I hope you don't need to dip into the Aspirins.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Once again, many thanks gents for the compliments.

Thanks to George (thank you again Geo) who sent me this great pic of the bomb sight window protection doors this morning I now know the colour is most likely to be chromate green.

What was also of interest were the doors themselves, nothing like the kit provided doors which I had modified with the PE parts supplied in the kit.
See here where I've removed the PE after finding them lacking.

The kit instructions as you can see lead to confusion and at first gave me the impression the folds go upward.

No holes in these so having removed them from the plastic, I set about sorting some holes.

They look a bit rough but a couple of sprays of primer before the chromate should sort it.

 

[rochie]

nicely done Vic

 

[Wurger]

 

[Donivanp]

The early ones were all bare metal inside, including the cockpit. It was early 1940 there got paint. Imagine flying on a bright sunny day in a nice shiny cockpit.