Making slow progress on the SBD-3 profile. I’m still trying to locate dimension and detail information for the DF antenna inside the cockpit so that will likely be one of the last items added. So far markings research has been completed for the following pilots:...
After a year and a half of research, my SBD-3 scale drawing is finally finished. Once I have my initial color template completed, I intend on doing 3-4 aircraft from the Battle of Midway between now and the 80th anniversary of that battle next June. The first profiles...
The reason I spend so much time researching and creating an accurate scale drawing for my color profiles is if the drawing has dimensional errors, the aircraft’s markings will not line up where they should. Either the marking will have to be ‘fudged’...
Curtiss Hawk H81-A-2, P-8184, #44 of the A.V.G. Second Squadron Flight Leader Peter Wright, Rangoon, China, January 1942. Click the gallery thumbnail below for a larger...
Curtiss Hawk H81-A-2, P-8134, #48 of the A.V.G. Second Squadron, David Lee ‘Tex’ Hill, Toungoo, China, December 1941. ‘Tex’ Hill started his aviation career in the U.S. Navy flying TBD Devastators and SB2U Vindicators. He volunteered to join...
