1/48 Hasegawa F6F-3 Hellcat E. A. Valencia

[le_steph40]

Hello,
F6F-3 Hellcat VF-9, February 1944 flown by E. A. Valencia finally finished.
Lot of work with this model but I enjoyed it... More simple to make surgery for resin parts on this Hasegawa Hellcat than try to refine wings on the Airfix Hurricane I
The modifications on this build:
- Ignition wires added
- Landing light under the left wing filled
- Access panel for HDI filled (right side of the fuselage behind the rear vision window)
- Gunsight (Camera) and its access panel filled on the right wing (present only on the left wing)
- Brake lines added
- Eduard resin wheels
- Eduard photo-etched cockpit
- Exhaust stacks drilled
- KMC control surfaces
- Tail wheel strut drilled
- Main landing gear modified: torque links drilled and shifted a little to the down
- Recognition lights repositionned: shifted a couple to the rear
- Eduard sliding canopy
- Gunsight modified to a Mk.VIII

Now, all of my time to work on the P-47D

 

[Wurger]

Excellent !!!

 

[Airframes]

Great job Steph !

 

[Vic Balshaw]

This is a very nice build, a beauty Steph.

 

[Snautzer01]

Very good.

 

[SaparotRob]

Can't fool me. Those are colorized photos of a real Hellcat.

 

[Crimea_River]

Beauty.

 

[Gnomey]

Good work!

 

[DarrenW]

Wow that's one gorgeous Hellcat you got there! Is the screen inside the chin intake an add-on or part of the original kit? Either way it's a very nice touch!

 

[Wildcat]

Very nice!

 

[le_steph40]

Hello

Thank you all for the comments

Wow that's one gorgeous Hellcat you got there! Is the screen inside the chin intake an add-on or part of the original kit? Either way it's a very nice touch!

It's an add-on from Eduard included in the photo-etched set for the cockpit

 

[fubar57]

Turned out very nice Steph