stevej60

Best laid plans Martin,once again that awful join just looked terrible under the white primer so cutting my lossed after a second lot of filler and sanding I went for the Sea Blue scheme which is OK as I've never modelled a Wildcat in this later scheme and it fits nicely with the finished Corsair and upcoming Hellcat.Anyway she was brushed in Sea Blue and later some breaking up of the solid colour with medium blue both Tamiya colours. A coat of Humbrol gloss brushed and an hour later yet more hairy moments with HB's decals,the 6's both cracked up so spares were sought.HB would have you leave of the fuselage stars and even had me checking photo's of this unit's aircraft but they were painted on the real thing as was the small 6 on the cowling which are not supplied so again came from spares.

Great start Dave cockpit looks the business.

Nice to see this one Nigel just started it myself a couple of weeks ago.

Great progress Enzo.

Great subject Dave one of my all time favourite aircraft.

Cracking job all round!

Great build and finish Derek,like the love child of a Corsair and an FW 190.

Looks great on the sprue Col and just the right scale for the subject.

Exactly what these classic GB's are about VP,great builds like this of long forgotten kit's!

Nice one John one of my favourite Hasegawa oldie's.

Hi folk's,well it won't win any prizes but with a seat base scratch built,decals and masking tape harness a dry run with the glazing on and it can just about pass as a cockpit!

Evening folk's.got a session in today and fitted and painted the U/C doors etc painted the blue tail tips and tried the decals all fine so far.

Many thank's decal's are superb and considering they were not intended for this kit needed no adjusting round the nose.I will in future seek out another for those other options too.

Hi folk's,with the Fury done and the Mosquito only a few jobs away from completion time to restart the Hornet so after a touch of filler here and there I primed in white then masked the wheel well's. I then criss crossed fine lines of black with the airbrush before a few coats of thinned light Gray. After the darker gray upper surface was sprayed I oversprayed in lighter gray then oversprayed one light coat of a third shade to blend it all in.

Hi Pete yes I've built the other two boxing's but not this version with the taller tail.I find the wing to fuselage join can be troublesome at the under fuselage to tailwheel join if it looks poor I can swing over to the Sea Blue scheme which will hide it better.

Hi folk's,last entry for this GB is the Zero easy kit which I have never seen or built before,one of the two options included is a naval subject.

Afternoon folk's another kit which shouldn't take much time to build is this version of the Wildcat.Planning to do the Atlantic scheme for this one.

Hi folk's,loved the Corsair build so as I wanted to do a few more three Naval subjects in this easy kit format,number one is the Hellcat.

Hi folk's finally with the release of Carracal's superb decal sheet's to build this oldie which has sat a good few years due to it's original decals being unusable. The Carracal decal's are superb with not only Sea Blue and Gray/White schemes but a couple of special schemes too they behaved beautifully too.Thank's for looking in.

Hi folk's in the gallery,borrowed my sons display cards for a nicer photo.

Afternoon folk's as promised some Gallery shot's.Esci 1/48 Fury.

Thanks Dermo.Pop a couple of photos on never seen these built.

As requested John,the highly detailed cockpit. Anf for good measure the highly detailed wheel bay.Some work needed on both me thinks.

Really enjoyed the Hobbyboss easy kit builds in this and the FW 190 GB so if all goes well with the two left to do here and there being plenty of time left I have a Hellcat,Wildcat and Zero winging their way here all eligible for the GB we'll see.

Outstanding finish an all of them CC,beautiful work.