The Devastator looks so good! Really look forward to see it airborne again.
Writing an article sure eats up time. I've been asked to write one for a dutch magazine, just takes way longer then i expected.

Cheers,

Bart

Hiya Paul,

2+ to what Bart said! Looks darned good, particularly those corrugations.

Cheers,
Shane.

Thanks, fellas!

Bart—you aren’t kidding about the time. And I had it easy: my article was in English. Dutch would have taken me much longer

Paul

Beautiful plane Paul

J

Paul, you do great work! Plane looks superb, just right amount of detail.
The paint job is perfect.
I look forward to the flight crew's arrival.

The rudder really “pops” in that light, nice job.

Michael

The Kohtails really stand out nicely, Koh!

Fantastic looking TBD-1 Paul !

She really stands out and like others have said, the details look superb

Very nice
Now we need a matching sized SBD and F4F

Thanks, y’all!

Jon—there very well may be an SBD in the future. Just not sure when. And I wouldn’t mind taking a crack at a bigger Wildcat once I get the guts to design the scale gear.

Worked on sculpting a pilot tonight. Got about 80% done. Also pulled some photos for the pilot’s telescopic sight.

Paul

imagine trying to fly and look through that!

Seriously! And with someone shooting at you:O

Hollywood would make that look easy

Some footage showing TBD's in this clip

Dive Bomber (1941) Official Trailer - Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray Movie HD (3 min 17 sec)

Cheers,

Bart

Hey, look at me! I'm posting some stuff!

Well, just a bunch of odds and ends. But at least I have something to show finally.

The canopy was tacked down before the last purdy photo, but here are some pics for posterity.

Next on the punch list was to fab up that telescopic sight that we talked about awhile ago. It really stands out so it was worth some effort.

The giant antenna post got some love, too. You may recall that the original one piece cocktail stick got sheared off with the first nose over. The lower portion was replaced with a more robust steel screw inserted into an aluminum tube. But now the upper part is done--it was fabbed from a bit of telescoping tube and some basswood to slip over the stub of the lower bit. A couple of magnets hold the two parts together.

And lastly, the landing light is done. It now has a lens, and is shinier than the crappy cell phone photo below.

Paul