Okay, ya forced my hand, here’s my addtion to the Wildcat collection.
I used the Tamiya kit with the Just Plane Stuff -3 conversion.
Unlike some of them sold mine was in good shape with no major problems.
I did sand down the flotation bag covers on the wings which stood a little to high.
It’s a pretty straight forward conversion, the hardest part was finding enough information on the VMF-211 Wildcats.
Paint was Model Master inside & out and I kept it really clean.
These airplanes were freshly repainted on the way to Wake Island and didn’t last long enough to get dirty.
I didn’t do anything extra to it.
3 additional images. Click to enlarge.
Craig Abrahamson said on March 22, 2013
It looks like ya did just enough and did it just right to me. Nice build.
Gary Brantley said on March 23, 2013
Sweet!
Gary
Charles S said on May 15, 2013
Nice work. I like the scheme, a little different from the usual Wildcat.
Bill Bailey said on May 16, 2013
Thank you, Sir, I really like what you did with the Big Cat.