Hello guys,
I can see it is a while when I was here. I have some update, I hope you will like it.
Well, I finished working on legs and stabilizer. And because there was really bad tailwheel, I made new one.
Also there is very inaccurate exhaust part, which is really useless. I cut new metal sheets covering exhausts and placed them on fuselage. I plan to put exhausts after the painting.
When I was checking that I did not forget something, I noticed that the plane I am building is different version. All photos I have found showing version F8F-2P - photographic reconnaisance aircraft. I do not know why I did not realized that earlier...
I am not an expert to Bearcats and I did not have any details of structure on left side which looked strange, so I started to ask around and got some nice advices. It turned that it is camera with special anti oil cover. Also, this version has much taller tail... bad news.
Therefore I made camera cover on the left side, plus I drilled small hole, where I plan to put a bit modified transparent stripe representing camera window.But I do not care about tail size. This would be too much.
However, I think I improved this kit beyond my original intention anyway.
4 attached images. Click to enlarge.
