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HELLCAT F6F-3 EDUARD 1/72


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Evening all. Here for your perusal and critique is my entry for the Grumman GB. As the title says it's an Eduard 1/72 F6f-3 Hellcat depicting a Hellcat flown by Lt Lochridge of VF-38 at Guadalcanal in 1943. The kit was the Profipack version with decals from a Weekend kit. The kit is a delight to build which you really have to try hard to mess up. I managed to break the gun barrels as I built it so I replaced them with Master P-47 barrels which look better than the kit ones. Paints are mostly Tamiya with some Revell white. 

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Cheers Allan

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3 hours ago, djos said:

Very interesting color scheme, and very nice model, i like it a lot

Best regards Djordje

 

3 hours ago, PattheCat said:

A very nice rendition of my favourite "cat".

Thanks Djordje and pattthecat for your comments.

 

Cheers Allan 

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19 hours ago, Kitchen Modeller said:

This is great - very nice colour scheme too - don't see that one very often. You are right about the guns - they look awesome. I have this kit in the stash and you've made me very excited about building it...

Thanks for your comments Kitchen Modeller.

 

Cheers Allan 

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  • 2 weeks later...

Thanks Crane. The majority of the decals were put on with only warm water. I find the Eduard decals to be very easy to use and conform well to the model. I did use Microsol /set with the first star but this left a white residue on the Klear gloss coat so I didn’t use it after that.

 

Cheers Allan 

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