The Wildcat Channel at iModeler (91 articles)

The Wildcat Channel at iModeler

Grumman F4F Wildcat

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FM-2 Wildcat (Arma Hobby 1/72)

by Dmitry Stropalov on June 28, 2020
in Aviation — 38 Comments

Again this is a new model kit of a Polish manufacturer Arma Hobby, released in May this year (2020). FM-2 kit is the first variant of the F4F's, and more to come - the clear sprue contains fuselage windows not needed for this GM-built Wildcat. [...]

1/48 Hobby Boss F4F-3 Wildcat – the first Navy plane to score a kill in WWII

by Drew Tarter on May 4, 2020
in Aviation — 17 Comments

The Hobby Boss 1/48 F4F Wildcat series are good kits that come close to being great, but don't quite make it. I I built the F4F-3 'early version', which I converted to an F4F-3A. Highlights are good surface detail, a two-piece canopy, accurate [...]

Grumman Martlet 11 (Wildcat) ,Tamiya ,1/48

by neil foster on April 26, 2020
in Aviation — 23 Comments

This is the Tamiya kit finished in decals from Hannants "Yanks with roundels part 2". The kit was a joy to build which it would be coming from Tamiya , I wouldn't expect anything else really . Fit was great ,the build process was logical and the[...]

FM-1 Wildcat HobbyBoss 1/48

by René Martínez Sánchez on February 25, 2020
in Aviation — 14 Comments

Hello Everyone! This is my second completed kit of the year of many more to come. I knew that the hobbyboss is quite a good kit, I found it at a really good price in a hobbyshop and I couldn't resist. I detailed the cockpit with some copper wir[...]

Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat VF-6 “White 18”

by Andrew H on January 18, 2020
in Aviation — 9 Comments

This build is the first of a series of Grumman 'cats that I plan to build in time. The kit is the revered Tamiya offering with the pronounced rivet details. This kit went together exceptionally well, no surprise there. I finished this one a fe[...]

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 made a "master" CD disk a[...]

The Class of 2019: Completions, and a couple major repairs…

by Frederick J Seitz III on December 30, 2019
in Uncategorized — 11 Comments

Hey Folks! At the end of the year, it's always nice to see everyone's , 'Year in Review'!! I do have a couple that are close, but they won't count, because this article deals with completed kits. All these kits are 1:48 Scale, from multiple [...]

24-hour build: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat

by Mike Grant on December 2, 2019
in Aviation — 22 Comments

On one of the other modelling forums I frequent, there's an annual Group Build in which participants build an unstarted kit of their choice in a 24-hour period. Frequent updates have to be posted, with progress photos taken including a timepiec[...]

1/48 Tamiya P-51B

by Tom Bebout on October 25, 2019
in Aviation — 14 Comments

The Bebout Curtiss P-40 factory decided it was time to build another pony. Actually, I started this model as a duel build along with my P-40M Wairarapa Wildcat. However, disaster stuck as the Tamiya decals broke into hundreds of little pieces [...]

F4U-1A Corsair Arii 1/48

by neil foster on July 14, 2019
in Aviation — 24 Comments

Hi all , it's been a while since my last posting but here we are. This is an Arii kit of the brilliant F4U Corsair, it seems strange for me to say that as a lifelong modeller I've never built one of these before in any scale so when I saw it on [...]