Tag: Grumman Wildcat

• Grumman Wildcat – Part Four – Neutrality Patrol

  

  This colour scheme on the Grumman F4F Wildcat is apparently real – it was seen in 1941 in the Atlantic aboard the USS RANGER conducting something called a Neutrality Patrol. It’s the standard US Navy Yellow Wing scheme adapted to the eastern seaboard. Neutrality? Was the USA expecting attack from the British or Germans or…

  Dick Stein

  May 30, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Chinese models, Colour Schemes, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  Decals, Grumman Wildcat, paint, US Navy, Yellow Wings

• Grumman Wildcat – Part Three – Nodecal

  

  Nodecal – the pill that makes you a better modeller. One review of this Hobby Boss Wildcat kit bemoaned the fact that there were no decals for the wing or fuselage bands. The review also went on to complain about the proportions of the tail and the scribing in the wing surfaces.Now, I’m not a…

  Dick Stein

  May 29, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Colour Schemes, Masking, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models, subassembly

  Decals, Grumman Wildcat, ID painting

• Grumman Wildcat – Part Two – Four-Part Harmony

  

  In each of the two pictures on this post there are four plastic parts. They’re glued up and setting overnight. The time taken to get to this point, including the washing of the parts, was about one hour. I’ve spent longer in the barbers. This would be a terrible thing for some modellers to contemplate.…

  Dick Stein

  May 27, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Chinese models, Model Airplane, Model building club, Scale Models, subassembly

  Grumman Wildcat, Hobby Boss, landing gear

• Grumman Wildcat – Part One – Hello Yellow

  

  My friend Warren once pulled up a Hobby Boss kit of the F4F Wildcat in early colours and it set me investigating. This plane turned up in one of the profiles out of a modelling magazine – I can’t tell you if the kit makers made theirs from the illustration or if the illustrator drew…

  Dick Stein

  May 25, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Box Art, Chinese models, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  1:72, Grumman Wildcat, Hobby Boss, Yellow Wings