Grumman F4F Wildcat
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- Camouflage & Markings – Grumman F4F Wildcat
- Tamiya’s 1:48 Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat
- 1/48 Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat VF-6, USS Enterprise “6-F-5” Midway Group Build
- Year of The Cat Group Build: Grumman Martlet Mk III – Hobby Boss 1/48 Wildcat F4F-3A
- 1/32 Revell F4F-4 Wildcat, Lt Cdr John Thatch, VF-3 USS Yorktown, Midway June 4, 1942
- 1:48 scale Hobby Boss F4F-3, “Wildcat”
- FM-2 Wildcat (Arma Hobby 1/72)
- Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat "White 18" – Tamiya 1/48
- Tamiya 1/48 FM-2 conversion
- Tamiya F4F-4, converted to an F4F-3, “Wildcat”
Marine Corps Guadalcanal F4F-4 Wildcat
This is the Tamiya 1/48 kit that has been posted here by many others. I sought to build a USMC version as used on Guadalcanal in 1942.
Kit is fairly simple except as others have noted, the undercarriage is most complex and a challenge [...]
Sunk F4F Wildcat "Felix the Cat" from USS Lexington CV-2
Disclaimer: I really struggled if I would publish this yet or not.
In March 4th 2018 the oceanographic ship RV Petrel found the old wreck of the carrier CV-2 USS Lexington, sunk in the Coral Sea battle. Among the items scattered on the [...]
Revised: Tamiya 1/48 F4F-4 Wildcat
Tamiya's Wildcat with Aires detail set.
Dragon Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat of LTJG Arthur Brassfield
LTJG Arthur Brassfield opened his account on 05MAY42 while defending USS Lexington (CV-2) during the Battle of Coral Sea. On that day he was credited with downing an H6K “Mavis” flying boat, a kill he shared with two other VF-42 [...]
Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat, Airfix 1/72
My earliest memory of the Wildcat was seeing Jack Leynwood’s classic box art on Revell’s original release of their 1/32 kit in the late 60s. It shows a pair of Wildcats led by CDR Jimmy Thatch flying over a frantically maneuvering [...]
1:32 Scale, Trumpeter, F4F-4, 'Wildcat'
Decent kit that went together very well. Building her with wings deployed was a little bit of a pain in the hind quarters, While Trumpeter gives you the option of folded or extended wings, I think the kit is designed more to have the [...]
Wing Folded Wildcat
Here’s my 1/72 Airfix Wildcat. The problems were probably all self-induced but this one fought me all the way. I found the landing gear particularly difficult and never did get them to fit perfectly. Additionally, it was a good thing I [...]
1/48 Eduard F4F-3 Wildcat
The Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat was borne from the failures of the F4F-1 and F4F-2 which was lacking in performance than the winner of the US navy monoplane fighter competition, the Brewster Buffalo. It was quickly ordered by the French and [...]
