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Grumman F7F Tigercat

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A colourful cat: Italeri 1/48 F7F-3P Tigercat (VMP-354)

by Marcello Rosa on May 5, 2022 · in Aviation — 19 Comments

Here are some photos of my Tigercat, completed in 2020 about the same time the news services were starting to talk a lot about a virus spreading from Wuhan. I consider the Tigercat a really good looking plane, with the combination of the [...]

1/48 AMT F7F-3N Tigercat

by John Clark on April 12, 2021 · in Aviation — 20 Comments

This is the AMT Tigercat with aftermarket cockpits, canopies, props, landing gear, and wheels. The figures were bashed together to make Korean War era Marine aviators.

1/48 Italeri F7F-3 Tigercat

by David Kopielski on February 15, 2020 · in Aviation — 9 Comments

The F7F-3 Tigercat is a sleek looking aircraft that was built and entered service very late in world war II and also utilized in the Korean war. This 1/48 Italeri kit was a nice build but required a base to have it sit on the landing gear [...]

1/48 Scale F7F-Tigercat

by Rodney J. Williams on January 4, 2020 · in Aviation — 10 Comments

Sometime in the early 1990's I met up with "Pylon Dave Jone's" who lived in Oklahoma/U.S.A. Dave sent me over 500 color 3-1/2" x 5" prints. I scanned in all of the photos, including several black and white prints then [...]

Grumman Tigercat F7F-2D (1/48 AMT Ertl F7 2N – conversion)

by Franco Damiani on January 3, 2020 · in Aviation — 24 Comments

Drone control Tigercats served the fleet along and well, their excellent performance continuing to give them capability to work with with newer hight-performance target drones as they entered service in early 1950s. on December 1956, the [...]

F-7F 3 Tigercat 1/48 Italeri

by Josef Rössner on December 19, 2017 · in Aviation — 29 Comments

My last kit F-7F 3 from U.S.M.C., MAG-33, Phoang, Korea, 1953

1/48 AMT F7F-2N Tigercat night fighter

by Dan DeSilva on December 25, 2016 · in Aviation — 22 Comments

Hi all, I hope you are having a good Christmastime with friends and family. I have had this kit sitting for a while waiting to get the outer wing panels properly set to finish the kit. It is the AMT 1/48 F7F-2N. I made use of Obscureco [...]

1/48 AMT F7F Tigercat

by Louis Gardner on October 29, 2016 · in Aviation — 29 Comments

This is another one of my favorite planes. This one was built with the addition of a set of True Details resin wheels. I had heard some of the horror stories about how the wheels fall apart after a while so I replaced them right off the [...]

1/72 Monogram F7F- COIN

by Robert Royes on April 1, 2016 · in Aviation — 11 Comments

Something I did a few years ago, Snakeyes and gun pod came from Monogram F-4, rocket pods from Heller T-28, AIM-9's from spare parts box, fuel tanks from Hasegawa T-33, seat- Airfix Tornado. Not sure about the decals but they are S. [...]

1/48th AMT F7F-3N Tigercat

by Jim Sullivan on September 4, 2015 · in Aviation — 43 Comments

I found this F7F-3N AMT kit to be a smooth build with no noticeable problems other than those that were self-inflicted. Despite filling the nose with lead, I found the model to be a dedicated tail-sitter. AMT must have been aware of that [...]