Nice one, Bernd! What paints did you use?
I have several Eduard-Hellcats in my stash. Guess I need to build one ....
I also know that problem when you build armor and aircraft. I have always 2 kits on the bench at the same time.

Torsten

Bernd,
Just an outstanding build of a USN WW11 F6F-3 Hellcat. Very nicely done tri-color paint scheme, with just the right amount of weathering. As for the wheels, they look just fine in your pictures. Up close I'm sure that the details are a little soft.

I've been building nothing but aircraft for several years now, although I have built several armor pieces, and I have a real interest in race cars from the 1960s-1980s. I wonder if I could post just some finished pictures in Pre-Flight forum, so that I could share my work with my Aeroscale friends, rather then in the other sites where none of us generally visits.

Joel

As for the wheels, they look just fine in your pictures. Up close I'm sure that the details are a little soft.

Hello Joel, thank you very much. The first "version" of my weathering attempt was way overdone, so i "graded" it back. WWII USN aircraft were well maintained.
I would love to see your armor kits here, cars or racers are tempting me too, its just a question of time until the first car on my bench.
Why not posting and sharing ?

Bernd,
Your F6F looks awesome! I really like how your colors merge seamlessly!

Gary

Very nice work! Turned out great.

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As for the wheels, they look just fine in your pictures. Up close I'm sure that the details are a little soft.

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The details in the wheels are actually very nice for plastic parts. The problem is that the wheels represent the smooth-tired early narrow wheels, which are inaccurate for most of the marking options included in the kit.
Luckily, Eduard seemed to listen to feedback, and their later boxings (excluding weekend editions, I presume) seem to include resin wheels.

With the early boxings, one could widen the plastic wheels with some styrene sheet if smooth-tired wheels are OK, or use some resin parts.

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Hello Joel, thank you very much. The first "version" of my weathering attempt was way overdone, so i "graded" it back. WWII USN aircraft were well maintained.
I would love to see your armor kits here, cars or racers are tempting me too, its just a question of time until the first car on my bench.
Why not posting and sharing ?

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My thoughts were that my posts of just finished non-aircraft builds would be moved to the appropriate Kitmakers Network, where I'm not known, and I don't know anyone. That's not the real issue, it's that like almost all of us I never visit those sites, so those builds would most likely not be seen by my Aeroscale friends.

For me, I just like looking at a well built model, no matter what the type is. Hopefully one of the mods will respond as to what is correct procedure. Maybe changing the name of the forum to "ready for display" or something along those lines would be more representative of the model content.

Joel

Bernd,
I almost always do the same light overspray after sealing the decals. The problem is that all decals are printed as though they're brand new markings on a new aircraft. And for the most part we're not modeling a new aircraft.
Joel

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Bernd,
I almost always do the same light overspray after sealing the decals. The problem is that all decals are printed as though they're brand new markings on a new aircraft. And for the most part we're not modeling a new aircraft.
Joel

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Correct, Joel, some "down shading" of the decals make the build look more realistic.
On the other hand, too much weathering says a lot about the weathering quality of the builder but will look wrong too.