Grumman F4F Wildcat
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This is a true story about one of our local hometown "Daytona Beach" men, who went to War, and never made it back home.
His name was Walter Mayberry. He was a very gifted and talented "American" football player (not [...]
Calling this one DONE! Also the second for the year, Eduard's AWESOME F4F-3 "Wildcat". Fantastic kit, loved the build and will start another one shortly.
IMHO, I think this is the best kit of the F4F in any scale, hands down. [...]
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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
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 [...]