LetLetLet ~ Warplanes
Let Let Let - Warplanes => Warplane Art => Topic started by: No.1 on February 14, 2016, 02:23:13 PM
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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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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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Thank you for kind words and support :) Tell me please, what left from factory there?
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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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Thank you my friend :-ok
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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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Great and inspiration :-ok
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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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Progress on my side- panels ;) Rivets and bolts coming some later :))
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This is a great subject!
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Thank you!
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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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:))
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Rivets and bolts :))
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nice work!!
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Thank you mate, here is shadows work :))
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It's getting better and better. Good job! :-salut
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Thank you :)) More progress later today ;)
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Little progress, I am lazy last days, sorry :-red
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Great so far !
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Slow and lazy back to the subject ;)
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Very nice - eager to see the first profile!! :-cool
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Hello :-salut
Very interesting subject. France received a lot of SBD-5s and some A-24s.
Jicéhem :-wave
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I hope I will soon be back, just to relax a bit. I hope I will make some French machines too
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Back to the project ;)
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Glad to see you back on track with the SBD! Nice work
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Thank you friend :)) This go into details and I hope I will have first profile tomorrow
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very nice!!
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Completed first :))
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Splendid work!
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Thank you :))
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superb as always !
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Thanks :))
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Another one for own pleasure ;)
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No idea of unit but it is interesting with its 'Mustang' style drop tanks
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Great!
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Nice profiles, my friend!
I have seen photos of that style drop tank being used to apply pesticides in the Pacific to lessen insect problems.
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Thanks friends :) I did not know that use, interesting!
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Money talk, I get orders :))
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Next one
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Very nice!
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Thanks :))
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still great! :-cool
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Thanks :))
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French A-24B
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The French airplane was built about a kilometer south of where I work!
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Ooo great!!! Then you will like this one :))
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And last in this turn
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The French are very nice!!!
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Thanks mate :))
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Very nice, like it a lot !
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Thanks :))
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Excellent!
Oh, I forgot to mention earlier--check your references closely as some (not all it seems) French Dauntlesses had the larger pneumatic tail wheel tire of the A-24.