Grumman F4F Wildcat
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Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat
Grumman’s Wildcat was the first of the Grumman cats (Wildcat, Hellcat, Tigercat, Bearcat, Tomcat) to enter service with the US Navy back in 1940. It was the backbone of the USN fighter fleet during the early years of World War 2 and [...]
Eduard F4F-3 Wildcat, 1/48. 'The Navy's First Ace'
Following Eduard's amazing 2022 new tooling of the infamous A6M2, I eagerly looked forward to their rendition of the Wildcat and this kit certainly doesn't disappoint.
Unsurprisingly the first Wildcat Eduard releases is the F4F-3, [...]
Hobby Boss 1/48 FM-1 Wildcat
Finally cleared a finished model off my bench. Used the Hobby Boss kit to finish as a Marlet Mk-1 assigned to 804 Squadron, RNAS, Hatston, Orkney Islands, Scotland, 1940. Early Marlets had non-folding wings and were predominately use by [...]
Two Old 1/72 Model Kits of the Grumman Wildcats (Revell and Frog)
A couple of months ago I started work on these two kits, Revell's and Frog's F4F-4 Wildcats. I wanted to build them together like the way I did with my Bearcats back in March and enjoy the whole process. My original game plan was to build [...]
The wages of writing :-)
So, some of you may have noticed over at the Eduard website that they have an actual historian writing their Wildcat history (with more to come). That would be yours truly, who was asked by Vlad if I would do that, and said [...]
Review: Eduard 1/48 F4F-3 Wildcat – Wake Island
The F4F-3 was the outcome of a development process by Grumman in response to a 1938 U.S. Navy requirement for a replacement for the F3F biplane fighters. The Navy was conservative in its planning; while the Brewster Aircraft Co. would [...]
Review: Further Thoughts About the New Eduard F4F-3
Mostly I tend to work with older kits, usually things that have been sitting in my storage for a while, but every once in a while I'll jump on The Latest and Greatest, whatever that may happen to be at the moment. The new Eduard -3 Wildcat [...]
Review: Wildcat Arriving!, A Review of the New Eduard's 1/48 Grumman F4F-3
Ever since building the very good but not perfect Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat back in the mid 90's you would think that they would follow up with a -3 and FM late Wildcat. But no we were just given just the one. Hobby Boss has produced a series [...]
Hobby Boss, 1:48 Scale F4F-4, 'Wildcat'
Finally, calling this one DONE...and it is WAY late for a Midway group build on another forum, However, Ama post it anyways...
1:48 scale Hobby Boss kit of Grumman's F4F-4 'Wildcat'. I did use a couple aftermarket goodies, like Reskit [...]
