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Grumman F6F Hellcat

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

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 [...]

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

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

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, [...]

Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat, Eduard 1/72

My first Hellcat! ENS Gordon Arthur Stanley, VF-27, USS Princeton (CVL-23), October 1944 I couldn't resist and I did the cat mouth camo. Gordon Arthur Stanley, born on July 13th, 1921, in Seattle, Washington state, shot down 8 enemy [...]

Black Cat

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

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

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

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 [...]

The first build of my son, George (4)

Hi fellow modellers, Want to share with you something big for me and for George as well. George had just finished his first model today (02.0402020). He started it when he was 3 and finished when he is 4. For the first build, I had [...]

Scratch built 1/32 f6f-3 hellcat

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 [...]