Frosty
SOH-CM-2025
Excellent work, guys!! She really looks great!!
About that last bit; according to sources, the Helldiver could be fitted with the US Mk.13 torpedo. This was not carried inside the bay, as the Mk.13 was too long to fit inside, but on a special rack/adapter on the centerline with the bomb bay doors in the open position. Both the doors and the current torpedo model are to scale - as much as the reference material allows anyway, so the only thing needed is the adapter/pylon model itself. For additional details, see the book "In Detail And Scale, No.52 - SB2C Helldiver", page 51 in the developer's FTP's library.
Perhaps the Mk.24 FIDO model fits without the adapter but that was an acoustic homing torpedo.
Additional information; the bomb bay could be fitted with one centerline rack for a single 1,000 lb or 1,610 lb bomb (AP or GP) or two side-by-side racks for bombs of smaller size, max. size 1,000 lb AP. The 1,000lb GP was too wide for these racks. According to the photographs on page 56 of the same book, these racks appear to be some kind of 'swing', a similar device as found on the SBD and the Stuka. Not surprisingly, these two aircraft are also dive bombers.
[I might as well copy the piccies here:]
;-)
Frosty
About that last bit; according to sources, the Helldiver could be fitted with the US Mk.13 torpedo. This was not carried inside the bay, as the Mk.13 was too long to fit inside, but on a special rack/adapter on the centerline with the bomb bay doors in the open position. Both the doors and the current torpedo model are to scale - as much as the reference material allows anyway, so the only thing needed is the adapter/pylon model itself. For additional details, see the book "In Detail And Scale, No.52 - SB2C Helldiver", page 51 in the developer's FTP's library.
Perhaps the Mk.24 FIDO model fits without the adapter but that was an acoustic homing torpedo.
Additional information; the bomb bay could be fitted with one centerline rack for a single 1,000 lb or 1,610 lb bomb (AP or GP) or two side-by-side racks for bombs of smaller size, max. size 1,000 lb AP. The 1,000lb GP was too wide for these racks. According to the photographs on page 56 of the same book, these racks appear to be some kind of 'swing', a similar device as found on the SBD and the Stuka. Not surprisingly, these two aircraft are also dive bombers.
[I might as well copy the piccies here:]
;-)
Frosty
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