Douglas TBD Devastator

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Douglas TBD-1 Devastator BuNo 1512, ‘6-T-2’ of Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6), USS Enterprise, as spotted for launch at the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942, about two hours before it was lost with Ensign Severin Rombach and ARM2c Wilburn Glenn: a three-seat carrier torpedo bomber with a Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp radial in a NACA cowling, a three-blade propeller, a long framed greenhouse canopy over the three crew, a low wing with corrugated upper skin and outer panels that folded upward, main wheels that retracted only halfway into fairings under the wing, and a Mk 13 torpedo slung semi-recessed under the belly, shown tail down on its wheels with the wings spread: non-specular Blue Gray upper surfaces and fuselage sides over Light Gray undersides, black propeller blades, a white star on a blue disc without the red centre on each side of the rear fuselage and above and below each wing, and a black ‘2’ ahead of the fuselage star, as photographed aboard Enterprise in May and June 1942 (no Devastator survives anywhere; shape from a TBD-1 three-view, scaled to the published dimensions and checked against wartime photographs; the photographs are black and white, so the colours are the standard 1942 US Navy finish, the upper port wing star follows the rule of the time rather than a photograph, and the canopy is shown closed). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 335 models · download .glb (1.2 MB) · Plate 93 in The Hangar