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  1. EDIT: link to post with the final model: Hello! This build was intended to be a nice easy thing I do in the background, and I wasn't therefore intending to waste a lot of forum space on a WIP thread. But a few sessions in, I feel like my memory is so rubbish that I'm actually missing having the 'diary' of sorts to keep track of what I was doing. Plus the questions, the endless questions that keep popping into my head. So apologies in advance for you poor souls who are unfortunate enough to stumble into this thread! So yes, the Airfix Wildcat, which seems to have garnered much love on these forums. I was lucky enough to stumble on one of these at KB models in Havant on the south coast (a hidden gem of a shop for those of you in the area). After seeing @bigbadbadge's terrific build of it a few months ago, I couldn't resist. This'll be OOB, the plan being to just have fun and not get too fussed with making it rubbish, rather enjoy the build and be free to try out new techniques and materials along the way. I'm slowly planning to work my way through various FAA carrier aircraft, and am always on the lookout for wing fold versions. The new Arma of course is very appealing but doesn't, I believe, have that option OOB. Finding a decent kit modern kit with a wing folding option is fairly rare I think in this scale; that alone is a big selling point for me. So far, the cockpit has gone together OOB. Airfix instrument decals are, let's be honest, a bit naff, and the single worst looking bit is the centre instrument panel, which of course is the one bit of the cockpit that you can actually see. Ah well, build it and move on. I got a bit lazy on this; I tried using klear, which wasn't all that great, gave it a quick wash, and kind got bored about the time that I was meant to be highlighting it. So, it's a bit meh, but I'll move on. Airfix, I think, messed up the decal callouts on this one but it's no biggie. Oh and some Eduard belts that I was also too lazy to paint. Sorry, top quality content you're getting here! The undercarriage needed a fair bit of cleaning, the molds are showing signs of seam build up and a fair amount of misalignment on the wee fiddly struts. Engine got a lick of some random paints, and here we are. Notice the shim of styrene I added under the cockpit, the idea being I wanted to leave the two windows in the lower fuselage clear, since I thought they might add some lighting to the interior; but wanted to avoid being able just to look straight through out the other side of the fuselage. I was equally lazy in not varnishing, washing or highlighting the wheel bay. Sorry! Maybe I'll do some of the undercarriage later. I'm lucky enough that a wander over to Duxford is not a particularly uncommon event, and the wildcat VI (I think it is), is often on display. I copied the colour from that, which is a mix of I guess Grumman grey, sky, black and aluminium. I actually undercoated everthing in alclad aluminium and build up the various colours gradually on to in the hope of getting a bit of that 'worn to metallic' look you can see here. It didn't work very well, I think overshading the colour with metallic might have looked better. So fuselage has gone together rather nicely without any obvious issues. Except of course that the PVA glue for the windows was still drying and I stuck my finger right into one and pushed it in so that it was precariously hanging by a corner, soon to become the most annoying permanent fuselage rattle. Fortunately... there this little gap in the cockpit floor, just about large enough for a sewing needle, and the window had hung on enough to get it back in. I should stop using the kid's crappy PVA glue really... Airfix seem to have made a bit of pig's ear of converting the double wasp-fitting fuselage of the original F4F kit into the single row cyclone cowling. Reading back through the forums here and looking at the sprue, it seems like they correctly included the cyclone orignially, but used a wasp-powered Martlet Mark II for the cowling shape. Then on discovering the error, added another sprue that extends the forbody and has the correct shorter cowl. I'm hoping this means I can use the unused MkII style cowl to turn one of the F4F-4 kits into a Mk. II in the future... But anyway in the meantime, the forebody extension is a bit off; the detail on the cowl doesn't quite align, and because the original fuselage tool is rounded off at the front to taper into the wasp cowl, the extension doesn't lie flush at all. It looks like Airfix made a half hearted attempt to put a 'lip' on the extension to bridge that gap, but that didn't really make it past quality control in this case. I opted to add the two sides of the extension to the fuselage individually, pushed hard back, and do as messy a job with the cement as possible to minimise the gap I'd have to fill to remove that extension line. The added bonus is that it leaves a very airfix-like-panel line extension! So a fair bit of filling and rescribing to do there, but nothing too major. So there we are, lovely kit to build so far. Cheers, Andy
  2. Airfix is to release in 2016 a 1/72nd Grumman Martlet IV kit - ref.A02074 Source: http://www.airfix.com/uk-en/news/workbench/exclusive-new-2016-announcement-airfix-at-ipms-telford/ V.P.
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