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David Duckett | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit # 12, Grumman F6F Hellcat | Parked | 17-Jun-21 19:53 | | Views : 641 | |
John Cooper | Dave Diels Engineering, Inc Kit # 12, Grumman F6F Hellcat | Parked | 07-Dec-10 08:23 | | Views : 1564 | 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 : 1457 | 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 : 1484 | 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 : 1310 | 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 : 1282 | I covered the model with grey tissue (chalked with light blue) and beige tissue (chalked with light brown) |
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