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| John Cooper | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit # 12, Grumman F6F Hellcat | Parked | 07-Dec-10 08:23 |  | | Views : 1553 | | The Wildcat in formation with some of its older and more battered FAA and RAF comrades. |
| John Cooper | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit # 12, Grumman F6F Hellcat | Parked | 07-Dec-10 08:21 |  | | Views : 1446 | | The model, at over 28g, was much heavier than other , similar sized, WW2 models that I have built. The barrel-like fuselage is fairly massive and the short nose required many grams of weight for balance. |
| John Cooper | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit # 12, Grumman F6F Hellcat | Parked | 07-Dec-10 08:17 |  | | Views : 1473 | | The model represents a Royal Navy Martlet used in North Africa in 1942. I tried to give it a dusty, desert-weathered finish. |
| John Cooper | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit # 12, Grumman F6F Hellcat | Build | 07-Dec-10 08:13 |  | | Views : 1296 | | Here you can see the balsa spars, that frication-fit into paper tubes in the wings. |
| John Cooper | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit # 12, Grumman F6F Hellcat | Build | 07-Dec-10 08:11 |  | | Views : 1271 | | I covered the model with grey tissue (chalked with light blue) and beige tissue (chalked with light brown) |
| John Cooper | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit # 12, Grumman F6F Hellcat | Build | 07-Dec-10 08:07 |  | | Views : 1864 | | I made the wings removable with sacrificial balsa spars. This has already saved the model from damage, after a nose dive into the gym floor during trimming. |
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