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World War II: USA
Aircraft of the United States in WWII.
Hosted by Rowan Baylis
FM-1 Wildcat 1/48 [finished]
Czarny
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Krakow, Poland
Joined: April 16, 2009
KitMaker: 68 posts
AeroScale: 62 posts
Posted: Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 08:15 AM UTC
I'm proud to present you my las finished model - FM-1 Wildcat in 1/48 made by Hobby Boss. I have added Eduard Zoom to upgrade interior. This Wildcat was a part of VC-12 from USS Core (CVE-13). I have some bad luck making this little thing but I'm happy with final outcome.
Hope you will like it:















Bigskip
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England - South East, United Kingdom
Joined: June 27, 2006
KitMaker: 2,487 posts
AeroScale: 575 posts
Posted: Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 09:05 AM UTC
That looks really good, what problems did you have, i've done the f4 early by hobby boss and found it a great little kit, just an issue with the gear.

Andy
Yeti123
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Michigan, United States
Joined: February 11, 2008
KitMaker: 311 posts
AeroScale: 278 posts
Posted: Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 05:18 PM UTC
Marcin:
Great job on the Wildcat. I think the Atlantic scheme is one of my favorites

Taylor
Siderius
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Tennessee, United States
Joined: September 20, 2005
KitMaker: 1,747 posts
AeroScale: 1,673 posts
Posted: Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 05:43 PM UTC
Great job there. Love that Atlantic paint job on the cat! Again, good job. Russell
Moonchild
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Slovenia
Joined: March 30, 2009
KitMaker: 106 posts
AeroScale: 105 posts
Posted: Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 09:21 PM UTC
Really nice Wildcat, I like it.
tferedo
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Philippines
Joined: July 30, 2008
KitMaker: 58 posts
AeroScale: 36 posts
Posted: Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 04:23 PM UTC
Very nicely built and colors are spot on!
chukw1
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California, United States
Joined: November 28, 2007
KitMaker: 817 posts
AeroScale: 729 posts
Posted: Monday, June 01, 2009 - 03:47 AM UTC
I love it! That's a great finish on this little brute- and the paint chipping is very well done- nice and random. How did you do this?

Cheers- and good luck in the MOM contest as well!
chuk
Czarny
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Krakow, Poland
Joined: April 16, 2009
KitMaker: 68 posts
AeroScale: 62 posts
Posted: Friday, June 05, 2009 - 10:00 AM UTC
Tahnks guys for all your kind words. I'm happy that you like this model.

Bigskip -> Model is perfectly engineered, saying that I have bad luck I was thinking about fretting to glue engine before gluing engine housing or I have put on paper external tank before it get dry, so I have to repaint it.


Chukw1 -> Chipping was done using old brush and fast drying vallejo's alcohol based aluminum paint. I was tapping along panel lines, because paint was drying fast, every time I was touching model, brush were leaving different imprint


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