Aeroplane Heaven Helldiver.

Ferry_vO said:
Coming after the Typhoon: https://www.facebook.com/Aeroplaneheaven/posts/875943029210738

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Great NEWS!!! Finally someone will do Helldiver (Razbam stopped this project years ago).Im very happy to see it!

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Now I came back with this desktop wallpaper ;> :

 
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After getting the sad news of Ickie's passing following his lack of posts here I'm almost afraid to ask, but...
Has anybody had recent contact with forum member Helldiver? No recent posts since June of last year, if I read his profile right. :concern:
 
Dont know, but he was waiting for any Helldiver model....

TARPSBird said:
After getting the sad news of Ickie's passing following his lack of posts here I'm almost afraid to ask, but...
Has anybody had recent contact with forum member Helldiver? No recent posts since June of last year, if I read his profile right. :concern:
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Dont know, but he was waiting for any Helldiver model.... I hope he will see its.
 
That's what I say fella's !
Some people were just plain rude/mean to Helldiver

I hope he is still with us. :applause:
 
Very good news. Having just re-discovered the Vertigo SBD Dauntless just last week and what fun it is to fly, I thought that a Helldiver would be a great aircraft to accompany it, except that there wasn't one for FSX. Now there's one on its way!
 
It is great to see a Helldiver in development for FSX! I am curious however about why there is a shaded line/ridge on the fuselage, running below the port-side cockpit section, as well as what looks to be a shorter ridge around the same area on the starboard-side(?).
 
Hi John,

There isn't a ridge there, it's just the render engine picking up the edge of the internal cockpit wall - doesn'r show in the sim.
 
TARPSBird said:
After getting the sad news of Ickie's passing following his lack of posts here I'm almost afraid to ask, but...
Has anybody had recent contact with forum member Helldiver? No recent posts since June of last year, if I read his profile right. :concern:
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From his profile, he last visited in October.
 
Good to know, Bazz, thank you! I have been around a few different Helldiver restorations (though a -5, -3 and -1A), so this will be a definite must have. Although for many, many years now, there has only been the one airworthy/flying Helldiver (the SB2C-5 operated by the Commemorative Air Force), there are three more Helldiver restorations, in advanced state, which be airworthy/flown when completed - an SB2C-5 owned/under restoration by Fagen Fighters, a SB2C-1A owned by Jim Slattery/under restoration by Vulture's Row Aviation, and a SB2C-3 owned/under restoration by the Yanks Air Museum. Very likely the first of the current restorations to fly will be the Jim Slattery SB2C-1A (unique for its level of absolute authenticity in restoration, and for all of the mixture of early and post-production mod items that make it quite different to the later production variants).
 
Bomber_12th said:
Good to know, Bazz, thank you! I have been around a few different Helldiver restorations (though a -5, -3 and -1A), so this will be a definite must have. Although for many, many years now, there has only been the one airworthy/flying Helldiver (the SB2C-5 operated by the Commemorative Air Force), there are three more Helldiver restorations, in advanced state, which be airworthy/flown when completed - an SB2C-5 owned/under restoration by Fagen Fighters, a SB2C-1A owned by Jim Slattery/under restoration by Vulture's Row Aviation, and a SB2C-3 owned/under restoration by the Yanks Air Museum. Very likely the first of the current restorations to fly will be the Jim Slattery SB2C-1A (unique for its level of absolute authenticity in restoration, and for all of the mixture of early and post-production mod items that make it quite different to the later production variants).
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I've always resisted doing an SBC2 as I believed them to be a little ugly and ungainly. However since getting into this thing it has really grown on me. I started the Monogram kit a few years back and never finished it for simiar reasons. Maybe I will finish it now! The early Monogram is a fine kit in 1/48. I had a couple of original early kits and one was a builder rather than a keeper so I started to build it up.

On a technical note, the version we are doing is the early -4 without radar.:engel016:
 

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