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Well my dad has a little yellow wings theme going on, among the subjects are a Wildcat and two Buffalos. So gonna join the group build..
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if info is true, early Wildcats had shiny interior
and cockpit tub done, used leftover PE seatbelts from one of the AM F3F kits
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Found out, that when you follow the instructions and glue the cockpit tub to the lower fuselage part and insert the whole thig into the rest of the fuselage, the upper cockpit parts don´t line up and theres a gap to the upper fuselage area.
Could get cockpit and lower fuselage apart again and glued the cockpit into the fuselage.
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Sorry, but that cockpit info is wrong. All Grumman-built F4Fs hd a Bronze Green cockpit interior. the intrior of the wheel well and the engine cowling is light aircraft grey.
Great progress, my friend @grimreaper!
Wildcats are always cool, Reinhard (@grimreaper). Looking forward to the rest of the build.
Love Wildcats! Following along...
Great choice and ditto progress, Reinhard @grimreaper Looks beautiful with yellow wings.
and fuselage closed
Solid progress, my friend @grimreaper!
Progressing nicely, Reinhard @grimreaper
Reinhard Spreitzhofer (@grimreaper) I am very happy to see your dad is building another Yellow Wings paint scheme. These are my all time favorite era aircraft.
Several years ago I built one of these and it went together well. The only thing I remember about the kit was the landing gear was tricky.
This one is looking really good.
some paint for the engine
getting the wings together according to the instructions the guns have to be glued into the halves before, but this way they most probably won´t "survive" until the end, so gonna insert some barrels at a later point
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Engine and wings look great, my friend @grimreaper! Wise decision to leave the barrels off, to install at later phases.
