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 [...]
Airfix 1/24 F6F-5 Hellcat
I have been on a long modeling hiatus but broke ground on the magnificent 1/24 F6F-5 Hellcat about two and half months ago. It is a really amazing kit, but true to form, I have added a lot of details to the kit. The WIP build to date can [...]
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 Mk1 Eduard 1/48
This is the second of my Hellcats ,this one a Mk1 flown from HMS Emperor helping to cover the Normandy landings hence the super cool invasion stripes and then was involved in operation 'Dragoon' ,the allied invasion of southern France.
As [...]
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 [...]
Eduard 1/48 F6F-5 Hellcat
Seems I forgot to post this one after it was finished last year, so here it is now.
Eduard Profipack kit, no problems with construction, paint is Model Master with Gunze coats. Weathering with various stuff.
Only real problem I had were [...]
Airfix 1/24 Hellcat MKII
Hellcat MKII operated by the FAA off HMS Khedive, East Indies, March- April 1945.
A relatively trouble free build. I was, however, disappointed by some of the detail left of by Airfix on such a large scale kit, but nothing that the [...]
Top Gun 1945 (UPDATED)
Lynn Ritger just spent the last three days playing "Squirrel!" in the digital archives of undesignated film footage at NARA and found some gems.
Lynn is a solid historian, but there are times he is seriously "bent." He [...]
