Grumman F4F Wildcat
The F4F Database at iModeler
126 articles
F4F-4 Wildcat – Cat of the Pacific War
(link)
Today story will be short. The Airfix F4F Wildcat model is quite a popular model available for many years. I wanted to face him. As it turned out, it has a lot of imperfections that can effectively discourage novice modelers. [...]
Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat
Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat
Eduard, 1/48, ProfiPACK (#82201)
Eduard: BRASSIN F4F-3 wheels early (#648767), F4F gun barrels PRINT (#648769),
F4F exhausts PRINT (#648766), F4F-3 TFAce (#EX878)
Maketa i fotografije: Miroslav D. Šljivić
F4F-3 [...]
Eduard 1/48 Martlet III
In October 1940, Greece was attacked by the Italian Army. Though the Greeks repulsed the first Italian attack, the situation was difficult because Hitler was ready to reinforce his ally. A Greek Purchasing Commission came to the United [...]
Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat
Grumman’s Wildcat was the first of the Grumman cats (Wildcat, Hellcat, Tigercat, Bearcat, Tomcat) to enter service with the US Navy back in 1940. It was the backbone of the USN fighter fleet during the early years of World War 2 and [...]
Eduard F4F-3 Wildcat, 1/48. 'The Navy's First Ace'
Following Eduard's amazing 2022 new tooling of the infamous A6M2, I eagerly looked forward to their rendition of the Wildcat and this kit certainly doesn't disappoint.
Unsurprisingly the first Wildcat Eduard releases is the F4F-3, [...]
Hobby Boss 1/48 FM-1 Wildcat
Finally cleared a finished model off my bench. Used the Hobby Boss kit to finish as a Marlet Mk-1 assigned to 804 Squadron, RNAS, Hatston, Orkney Islands, Scotland, 1940. Early Marlets had non-folding wings and were predominately use by [...]
Two Old 1/72 Model Kits of the Grumman Wildcats (Revell and Frog)
A couple of months ago I started work on these two kits, Revell's and Frog's F4F-4 Wildcats. I wanted to build them together like the way I did with my Bearcats back in March and enjoy the whole process. My original game plan was to build [...]
The wages of writing :-)
So, some of you may have noticed over at the Eduard website that they have an actual historian writing their Wildcat history (with more to come). That would be yours truly, who was asked by Vlad if I would do that, and said [...]
