Eduard 1/48 F6F-3 Hellcat ProfiPak

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Eduard 1/48 F6F-3 Hellcat ProfiPak

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Waiting for Extra Dark Sea Grey for my Ark Royal Phantom, i started on this: Image

Cracking kit falls together with no seam big enough to require filler.

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Cockpit with PhotoEtch (im beginning to hat this stuff)

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Fuselage together:

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Wings On
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Painted, waiting for it to cure then ill clear and start on decals!

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Looking good. I have this one in the stash.
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Falls together, awesome little kit!
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Good start!

This is a great kit - one of the best I've ever built [apart from fiddly bits] and your cockpit is looking good so far.

Here's my effort:

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Looking forward to more progress!
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your blue looks more convincing than mine, i think i should have tried the hataka paint set i have for navy colors.
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EricM wrote:your blue looks more convincing than mine, i think i should have tried the hataka paint set i have for navy colors.
I mixed all my colours by eye so probably nowhere near accurate!
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Made some progress on the Hellcat tonight, just gotta seal and weather and she'll be done..... oh and order some ED Brassin wheels to replace the two piece kit ones.


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