**** DONE: 1/32 Grumman Wildcat F4F-3 Early – Carrier Aircraft GB

[N4521U]

You think?

 

[Wayne Little]

Doin' a good job there Vaughan...and watch out for them Judge types they are a weird lot...got there own special jackets and padded cells....

 

[Vaughan]

Doin' a good job there Vaughan...and watch out for them Judge types they are a weird lot...got there own special jackets and padded cells....

Thanks for the advice
Vaughan

 

[Crimea_River]

I've eaten all the padding off my cell walls.

 

[R Leonard]

Very nice work, look forward to following your progress. One thing, though, and before you get too far along, F4F-3s did not have shoulder belts, only a simple lap belt. Shoulder belts in Wildcats did not come out of the Grumman plant until around July 1942 in F4F-4s.

Even at Midway, the VF-3 and VF-6 F4F-4s had no shoulder belts. The VF-8 F4F-4s had a ship-designed and installed shoulder belt arrangement. My father remarked that he, having flown F4F-3s in VF-42 and F4F-4s in VF-3, with only lap belts, thought the VF-8 field mod was a clever idea when he saw it after flying over from Enterprise, where he had landed on 4 June after Yorktown was no longer available, on the 5th.

 

[Lucky13]

Looks great Vaughan!

 

[Vaughan]

Very nice work, look forward to following your progress. One thing, though, and before you get too far along, F4F-3s did not have shoulder belts, only a simple lap belt. Shoulder belts in Wildcats did not come out of the Grumman plant until around July 1942 in F4F-4s.

Even at Midway, the VF-3 and VF-6 F4F-4s had no shoulder belts. The VF-8 F4F-4s had a ship-designed and installed shoulder belt arrangement. My father remarked that he, having flown F4F-3s in VF-42 and F4F-4s in VF-3, with only lap belts, thought the VF-8 field mod was a clever idea when he saw it after flying over from Enterprise, where he had landed on 4 June after Yorktown was no longer available, on the 5th.

Thanks for the info( I don't know your name) I have already remove the shoulder belts having done a bit of research.
Vaughan

 

[N4521U]

Interesting bit of info on the belts. Something I need to keep in mind as I will be doing a 1/48th 3 model for the PTO GB.
Like your work Vaughn....

Bill

 

[Wayne Little]

Rich is the man for 'Cat' info...!

 

[meatloaf109]

What scheme are you going to do?

 

[javlin]

That is some nice work there Vaughn!Do like the weathering taking place

 

[Vaughan]

What scheme are you going to do?

Most probably the USS Wasp Paul. It's the easier option as this will be the first time that I have sprayed large areas of aluminium,
and there will be no fuselage bands only the cowling.
Vaughan

 

[Vaughan]

Hi All
I've made some further progress. Still building out of sequence I've assembled the drop tanks and sprayed and weathered them. The cowling has a coat of primer. Fuselage halves are sprayed interior green and a dry run with the office and wheel bay bulkhead. All's not looking good nothing lines up and when I close the two halves together there are massive gaps all around the wheel bay bulkhead. Will have to have a think on this one and work out the best course of action.
Vaughan

 

[meatloaf109]

Shim, shim, shim.
(Do-wop)

 

[Rogi]

Coolio

 

[Vic Balshaw]

You have a couple of worries there Vaughan, not sure what to suggest, but as Paul has stated, shim, shim, shim.

 

[Airframes]

Reminds me of the Dragon Mustang kit - which was worse, as nothing lined up!
Heard about a number of fit problems with various Trumpeter kits, but should be easy to rectify. As already mentioned, shim, and remove the offending bits, to replace with your own locating tabs.
Looking goo so far though.

 

[N4521U]

Shim shimminy, shim shimminy, shim shim, sharoo...

the padding in my cell is wearing thin.
I keep bashing my head against it.

What silver are you using Vaughn?

**If you were asking me Paul,
mine will be VMF211, Wake Island,
the last plane lost during the invasion Dec. 8 was flown by a Davidson.

If you weren't, disregard the last.

 

[woody]

Your work is looking good Vaughan hope you can get the fit issues sorted out.

 

[Wayne Little]

Your work is looking good Vaughan hope you can get the fit issues sorted out.

Agreed!