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Douglas SBD Dauntless
« on: February 14, 2016, 02:23:13 PM »
Dear friends,

finally event in my life- color profile I work for my self  :-razz All of this years you are watch many color profile projects done for other customers and finally I get time to do something for my self. lets go- Douglas SBD Dauntless  :-ok

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Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2016, 04:33:50 PM »
Congratulations! You've picked a good subject with wide variety of possibilities!!!

In fact, I'm sitting about thirty miles from the Douglas plant where the A-24 version of the SBD was built, and I see the assembly factory nearly every day! :-cool

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Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2016, 04:38:26 PM »
Thank you for kind words and support :) Tell me please, what left from factory there?

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Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2016, 09:08:45 PM »
Let me see....from memory on the Douglas Plant. This was a government-funded factory built in the early forties and became known as Air Force Plant #3. Douglas was the manufacturer that ran the plant during WWII and post-war.

This plant built the A-24B, B-24, and A-26 during the war. The A-24 and B-24 were on the assembly lines at the same time for a little while. Also there was modification work done at Douglas/Tulsa on A-20s, B-24s, A-26s and the YB-40 escort conversions of the B-17s were done here.

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Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2016, 09:12:45 PM »
Thank you my friend :-ok

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Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2016, 09:31:51 PM »
Also, after WWII there were B-47s and B-66s built at Tulsa and modification lines for various machines. Now part of the factory builds school busses.

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Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2016, 09:55:01 PM »
Great and inspiration :-ok

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Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2016, 10:00:38 PM »
The Douglas plant is interesting--railroad tracks and unloading docks are on the southwest end and great doors on the northeast end. This plant assembled "knocked-down" kits that came from other manufacturers and these subassemblies were shipped to Tulsa by rail and the parts unloaded and fed into the production line. Finished airplanes came out the big doors on the northeast end! The B-24 subassemblies mostly came from Willow Run at least at first.

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Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2016, 08:40:18 AM »
Progress on my side- panels ;) Rivets and bolts coming some later :))

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Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2016, 08:56:45 AM »
This is a great subject!

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Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2016, 09:12:16 AM »
Thank you!

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Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2016, 01:07:03 PM »
Finally, after all you deserve to make one for your joy, no doubt it will look great as all of your works !

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Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2016, 01:08:18 PM »
:))

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Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless
« Reply #13 on: February 16, 2016, 08:37:27 AM »
Rivets and bolts :))

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Re: Douglas SBD Dauntless
« Reply #14 on: February 16, 2016, 07:22:00 PM »
nice work!!