Eduard 1/48 F6F-3

[Wayne Little]

...Thought something looked not quite right....

 

[jbrady]

Engine does look good but have you glued the engine cowl on? It looks to be at the wrong angle.

No I've still got to paint the inside of the cowling and I haven't decided if I'm going to open the cowl flaps. I've never stretched sprue and I'll have to practice that so I can make the flap actuators... I got to remember that this is only my sixth or seventh kit.

 

[Wurger]

Anyway she looks good.

 

[Crimea_River]

.... I haven't decided if I'm going to open the cowl flaps. .

The beauty of the kit you have there is that there are 3 kits in one so it's a good opportunity to try to open the flaps on at least one. If you mess it up, use one of the other ones and leave the messed up one far another try later.

I ended up completely cutting off the flaps and making new ones from plastic card. Not that hard really and card is cheap.

 

[javlin]

Some Nice work and efforts there JB. Cheers

 

[T Bolt]

Looks very nice so far.

 

[jbrady]

I got all the little bits attached last night. I'm not going to open the cowl flaps. I ruined one cowling when I tried to open them and this is the last one I have. I guess i'll practice on spare parts before I try that again. Now I have to decide how I'm going to paint this thing. My thinking is since this is a repaint I will paint the original colors of Intermediate blue over Gull Grey, add the national insignia and then paint the three color scheme over that. Never done a three color scheme so it should be a challenge.

 

[Crimea_River]

Looks good. I've always likes the 3-colour scheme.

 

[Wurger]

Because jb has been banned I locked the thread.