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Eduard 1/48 F6F-3 Hellcat ProfiPak

Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:12 pm
by EricM
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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Re: Eduard 1/48 F6F-3 Hellcat ProfiPak

Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 9:44 pm
by Avgas
Looking good. I have this one in the stash.

Re: Eduard 1/48 F6F-3 Hellcat ProfiPak

Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 4:45 am
by EricM
Falls together, awesome little kit!

Re: Eduard 1/48 F6F-3 Hellcat ProfiPak

Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 4:31 pm
by matto21
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!

Re: Eduard 1/48 F6F-3 Hellcat ProfiPak

Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 4:57 pm
by EricM
your blue looks more convincing than mine, i think i should have tried the hataka paint set i have for navy colors.

Re: Eduard 1/48 F6F-3 Hellcat ProfiPak

Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 5:20 pm
by matto21
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!

Re: Eduard 1/48 F6F-3 Hellcat ProfiPak

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 7:24 am
by EricM
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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