Grumman F6F Hellcat
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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 [...]
1/48 Eduard F6-F3 Hellcat – Alex Vraciu White 19
This was my entry for a local group build with a „feline” theme. Started with an week end edition kit, added some photo-etched seat belts and Techmod decals for the plane of Alex Vraciu.
It started on the wrong foot since I used the [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
