This is a shameless plea for your comments. I just posted my hellcat in "The Critic's Corner" and would love any comments you can give. I have learned so much from all of you on this site over the last year, so I would love an honest critique from you all.



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I'm no expert, but it sure looks sweet to me!! Love those panel lines...how'd you do those?

Thanks for the positive comment. For the panel lines, I tried Brandydoguk's method of pencil lead. Read about it here It worked great and I liked that it allowed the panel lines to come through the decals a little better than usual. (I did think it was a little too dark though and am on a quest to find a lighter colored lead.)

Thanks again.
Leon

Thanks! Going to give that a try...

Hi Leon

Beautiful job!

All the extras look great and the finish is superb. What paints and decals did you use?

One thing I wondered is whether there should be a non-slip finish at the wing-root. In Detail & Scale it says that this varied in application from a/c to a/c, so it may also be correct to have none.

All the best

Rowan

Thanks Merlin.

The main colors (sky, slate grey and sea grey) were model master enamels and all others were Tamiya. I have tried to move totally into the tamiya acrylics, but being color blind when the directions don't give a tamiya mix, I often end up going into the enamels which actually say the names of the colors that I am looking for

The decals were a mix of the kit decals and some aeromaster hellcat stencils, and I decided to be brave and paint on the white instead of using the decals.

As for the non-slip finish. I have no idea. All I have is the hellcat walk around and I could find no pictures (except for one not very good profile) of the royal navy (FAA? are they the same??) hellcat, so I just went with the kit directions on the major decisions. In fact I have to tell you that when I put on the "no step" stencils (one of which is right by the wing root) I questioned "where does the pilot step then??" This just shows how little I actually know...

Thanks again.
Leon

Hi Leon,
I've taken a look in the critics corner and your Hellcat is great. I will be looking a few more times, then, if I can, I'll give you some of that constructive criticism. It does look very good though, one to be proud of
Mal

Thanks Mal, I look forward to hearing any of your thoughts.

Leon