Grumman F4F Wildcat
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First of the Vero Beach Projects- The Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat (1/48th Scale)
I'm not sure what i can say about the Tamiya F4F that hasn't already been said by others. It marked Tamiya's return (in a BIG way) to the 48th scale aircraft segment, it filled a ginormous gap in WWII Naval Aviation subjects (and spelled [...]
The Wildcatfish (Tamiya 1/48 F4F-4 conversion)
A nice way to turn a $30 kit into a $150 model. Tamiya's excellent F4F-4 with the Cutting Edge conversion set to do the F4F-3S "Wildcatfish." and the Just Plane Stuff F3F-3 wing set. The sets included new non-folding wings [...]
1/48 Tamiya F4F Wildcat
Built straight out of the box after being rescued at a yard sale. The model had been painted with a dark blue rattle can and most of the detail had been badly obscured. Luckily the paint stripped off easily with oven cleaner. I only [...]
1/48 Classic Airframes Grumman Duck
After seeing all the Wildcats with the beautiful medium blue over gray. I thought I would post pictures of my Grumman Duck. I finished it earlier this year. It was my first biplane, but I got the bug and wanted to finish a model with [...]
Tamiya F4F Wildcat
I've built about 40-45 1/48 model aircraft over the last 25 years (yes, I am the world's slowest builder, lol) but this Wildcat was my first Tamiya kit. I finished it last year and I have to say that all I had heard about its ease of [...]
1/32 Trumpeter F4F-4 Wildcat
Mostly OOB, I added the fuel tank under the cockpit floor. You can't really see it unless you look through the windows on the lower fuselage, but I know it is there...lol.
Paint is Mr. Color, and floquil. Decals by superscale.
Thanks,
Rob
Hobby Boss 1/48th F4F-3 Wildcat 'Wake Island Defender'
This model went together with no trouble at all. The fit was very good and I experienced no problems with alignment. Paints were Floquil Navy Blue Grey, and US Navy Grey mixed with Concrete from their Railroad Colors line. I used the [...]
Tamiya 1/48th F4F-4 with KMC F4F-3 Conversion Set
This Wildcat is finished in the VF-42 markings of the machine flown by Scott McCuskey at the Battle of Coral Sea, while shipped aboard the USS Yorktown. The KMC -3 wings fit very nicely, but cutting and filing the mating surface requires [...]
Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat 1/48
The Tamiya Wildcat was a nice kit to build, clever parts breakdown and no fit problem (as with most Tamiya kits); the only extra I put in to it was some details in the cockpit. There was a lot of talk about the floor in this kit (as the [...]
The “Wairarapa Wildcat”
1/48 Hasegawa P40 Kittyhawk Mk III built OOB with kit decals representing Geoff Fisken's famous mount. Images done with a Canon Powershot SD600 Digital camera.
The Olive Drab is a home mix of green and brown with red and yellow added and a [...]
