Grumman F4F Wildcat
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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 [...]
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’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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The F4F-3 was the outcome of a development process by Grumman in response to a 1938 U.S. Navy requirement for a replacement for the F3F biplane fighters. The Navy was conservative in its planning; while the Brewster Aircraft Co. would [...]