Grumman F6F Hellcat
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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, [...]
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 [...]
