Grumman F6F Hellcat
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1/72 F6F-5 Hellcat
My attempt to make headway on my stash of unbuilt kits settled on a second 1/72 Academy F6F this week. In 2021 I built this kit as Alex Vraciu's F6F-3 - (link). This time I would build the kit as a F6F-5 in overall Glossy Sea Blue.
I [...]
Eduard 1/48 Grumman Hellcat 1 (F6F-3)
This is a great kit that I thoroughly enjoyed building and am reasonably happy with the results. Anything else is superfluous.
It's one half of a twin boxing-still have a Hellcat 2 (F6F-5), Pacific Theatre.
Hellcat F6F-5 1/48 Hobbyboss
A few years ago I was at a local club day admiring the work done by my fellow modelers and mooching through the boxes under the tables of models for sale (always the best bit of the day for me) when I came across the Hobbyboss Hellcat, I [...]
Hellcat Mk2 Eduard 1/48
Well it's been a long time since I got round to posting something but I have been plugging away in the man cave and checking in every day to see what everyone's been building.
The Hellcat is one of my favorites along with it's little [...]
1/72 F6F-3 Hellcat – HobbyBoss 80256
I ended up taking a step back from modeling with the nice summer weather setting in and having multiple tasks around the house and garden. What I did not plan was the course of action required after a few medical tests due to a few [...]
Guerre d'Indochine...1/48 Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat, Aviation Navale
My dad finished the next French in the line.
Hobby Boss kit with Berna Decals, the nose and fuselage side numbers are a bit oversized, the missing tail "1" was taken from a French Corsair sheet. The roundels come in three pieces [...]
F6F-3 Hellcat kit from Eduard "weekend edition" 1/48
Hello friends,
today I have another US NAVY aircraft for you: It is the nice F6F-3 Hellcat kit from Eduard.
The kit: "Eduard 84160 F6F-3P weekend edition" The model is almost completely build from the box, I only added seat [...]
F6F-3 Hellcat – 1/72 Minicraft/Academy
Calling it done. Lt. Alex Vraciu’s F6F-3 Hellcat with VF-6 on USS Intrepid (CV-11) in June 1944. Minicraft/Academy 1/72 scale kit with aftermarket resin/photoetch cockpit by Aires and decals by PrintScale. Only at the last minute did I [...]
Vintage Lindberg 1/72 F6F Hellcat (with just a few tweaks)
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 [...]
