Grumman F6F Hellcat
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Thanks, again, iModeler! 1/48 Eduard F6F-3 Hellcat “Weekend Edition”
Photo caption reads: F6F Hellcat civilian aircraft is in flight. June, 1970, Charles F. Willis, then Alaska Airlines' Board Chairman, with his F6F-3 "Little Nugget" painted in his airline's colors. The big jetliners were [...]
F6F-3 Hellcat
A well-known Eduard kit in 1/72 scale. I've added landing and navigation lights. Also kit contains colored photo etched parts for engine and cockpit. Painted with Tamiya and Gunze acrylics. Oils for washes and weathering along with [...]
1/48th Hasegawa F6F-3 Hellcat
When I saw the actual photo of this plane, I just knew I had to build it. Other than the quite unusual white paint trim, it's pretty much a standard WWII tri-color Hellcat. I know it was from a Navy squadron but I have yet to identify [...]
D-Day GB – Grumman Hellcat Mk.I
A well-known carrier-based aircraft, produced by Grumman. The British Fleet Air Arm (FAA) received 1263 F6Fs under the Lend-Lease Act. This E-L aircraft was based on the HMS Emperor during D-Day.
HobbyBoss 1/48 kit, Techmod decals. Build [...]
Hellcat Mk 2. Eduard 1/48 scale.
Well here is. I won this kit on the random draw last year and I finally finished.
It has been a fun build but not without a problem or two, down to me rather than the kit itself. See the WIP for details.
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Painted in the F.A.A. [...]
Otaki 1/48 F6F-5 (N) of VF91 (N)
This is a model of an aircraft of VF-91 (N) flown off Bon Homme Richard during the end of 1945. The is an OOB, with the exception of the radar dome on the right wing, Otaki kit. I built this quite a number of years ago and it is showing [...]
1/48 Otaki F6-F3 Hellcat
The 1/48 Otaki F6-F3 Hellcat, as old as it is, still makes up into a fine looking model. While comparing this to my new Eduard Weekender kit, there were plenty of subtle differences, but we're talking decades apart, and the Otaki still [...]
Hasegawa Hellcat – the 1/48 F6F-3 by Tony Prince
Being a lover of carrier borne aircraft & the USN WWII in particular, I built this kit a few years ago (pre Eduard), but noted the adverse comments regarding the 'smile' on the cowling ring. Being very happy with other aspects of the [...]
11 November
This day in history: 11 November 1944
In the summer of 1942, on his 21st birthday, Alfred Theodore Graham, Jr., a small-town newspaper reporter from Jacksonville, New York, enlisted in the U.S. Navy. After training as an aerial gunner and [...]
Let's see if a good story makes this boring dark blue airplane interesting
If a good story can make a "boring dark blue airplane" interesting, as commenters said about Bruce Porter's airplane, here's a rip-roarer of a story.
This is the F6F-5 Hellcat flown by my friend former ENS Clarence [...]
