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Grumman F6F Hellcat

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Vintage Lindberg 1/72 F6F Hellcat (with just a few tweaks)

by David Garcia on July 27, 2021
in Aviation — 11 Comments

One thing about the Lindberg kits I have built is that the parts fit properly. All I did to this kit is open up the closed engine face and add a spare engine, some guns and an antenna. Everything else is out of the box. I did use the [...]

Minsi III – F6F-5 Hellcat, Eduard 1/72

by Istvan Havril on July 10, 2021
in Aviation — 11 Comments

This is one of Capt. David McCampbell's Hellcats. The kit is well engineered, the fit is great. List of modifications: -riveted the entire surface -changed the .50 cal barrels to metal tubes -brake cabels added to the landing gears -made [...]

1/48 Hasegawa Ki-100-1 Empire of Japan Group Build

by Tom Bebout on November 30, 2020
in Aviation — 16 Comments

Thanks to Louis Gardner for starting this GB as it gave me a reason to build some of the Japanese A/C in my stash. The Ki-100-1 was quite a successful fighter and gave the allies all they could handle towards the end of the war. The Ki-100 [...]

F6F -5N Hellcat over Brooklyn.1/72 Eduard

by Robert Royes on November 24, 2020
in Aviation — 12 Comments

This is a Eduards over tree kit, no decals no PE, perfect, I didn't need the kit decals and I don't do PE to well. The markings are of a F6F-5N of the Navy Reserve stationed at NAS Floyd Bennett Field Brooklyn NY. 1949. There is a bit [...]

1/48 EDUARD F-6F3 Hellcat

by Boris Grgić on November 16, 2020
in Aviation — 9 Comments

Fun little kit, out of the box. Eduard made it too easy with this one, no need for filling, sanding, correcting...everything fit like a charm. This was the first time I got a chance to compare Hellcat with previously assembled Bf-109, [...]

Black Cat

by Marcus Vinicius Teixeira Borges on September 9, 2020
in Aviation — 8 Comments

The FAA used quite a number of Hellcats,and one of those was completely painted in glossy black! Though there are a number of controversies,I decided that such a camo shouldn´t be passed by... The kit used is the 1/48 Eduard Weekend [...]

Review: Eduard 1/48 F6F-3 Hellcat review

by iModeler Youtube Picks on August 26, 2020
in Aviation, Reviews

The 1/48 Eduard F6F-5N Nightfighter with Illumination is finished.

by David Kopielski on July 4, 2020
in Aviation — 14 Comments

This build is the 1/48 Eduard F6F-5N Hellcat Nightfighter. This is Eduard’s “Weekend Edition” so it comes with some resin detail accessories like radar pod, gun barrels, exhaust pipes, and under wing antenna. I also added Eduard’s [...]

1/48 F6F-5N Hellcat

by John Healy on April 14, 2020
in Aviation — 25 Comments

This is the Eduard Weekend Edition kit built with a few add ones. The model represents the Hellcat flown by VMF(N)-533’s Captain Robert Baird on Okinawa in the summer of 1945. Baird became the Marines’ first night fighter ace with [...]

Scratch built 1/32 f6f-3 hellcat

by Rodney J. Williams on March 28, 2020
in Aviation — 13 Comments

I acquired some cockpit and wheel well photo's, so I did my best to duplicate all of these items into this 1/32 scale model. I had to call upon my art talent to draw some logos that the pilot had someone paint on his airplane and/or apply [...]