Almost Finished

Thanks everyone! @lgardner, @gwskat, @gblair,@fiveten, and @johnb. Appreciate the comments.

I can see the finish line just up ahead. Prop attached and all weathering completed. But...as luck would have it, the Modeler's Curse struck at the last minute and I broke the antenna mask off. I glued it back on but several days later I broke it again while in the middle of rigging. And then I ran out of my favorite Uschi thread and it seems every online hobby shop is out of stock. I will have to use EZ Line instead which is a bit too thick for my liking but it does the job. The mast is back on with EZ attached.

Regarding your last comment, George @gblair, all I have to say is "ain't that the truth"!

Looking super, my friend @eb801! Hope all works well with the antenna wire.

Just Part of the Fun!

@gwskat, @gblair, @fiveteen @johnb, @lgardner:

It sure is! I finally got the antenna rigged. After breaking off the tail mast and main mast several times and not having much luck with EZ Line - hey that's what I get for actually ordering "heavy" instead of "fine" - and getting extremely frustrated, I switched to the old stand by: invisible sewing thread. Much better.

Here it is complete with yellow wheel chocks that Otaki included in the kit. A few more touch ups and I will be posting this in the headlines soon:

The sewing thread as antenna wire looks good to me, Eric @eb801
As do the insulators.
The wheel chocks are a nice addition, good idea of Otaki to include them.

Eric Berg (@eb801)
I'm going to jump on the band wagon and echo what the guys said above. You did an excellent job with this. It definitely looks the part. For me the aerial antennae's are the hardest part of the build too, besides painting figures... and notice I don't normally add figures to my models.

I'm looking forward to seeing it in the headlines section soon.

Thank you for contributing to our group.

Congratulations on finishing this Hellcat, Eric @eb801
She looks really nice.
For some reason I also struggle with getting the antenna wires and masts to attach nicely. I think yours do look quite nice.