discussion Steven's Eduard 1/48 F6F-3 Hellcat

[Steven000]

Thank you all for the kind words guys

...These resin pilots really are good now - where did you get it?

This one I printed myself using a digital file (link) I bought for a previous P47 project.

Before I had a 3d printer I used resin figures from 'PJ productions', and Aerobonus has some nice figures too (link mig 19 pilot, link mig 21 pilot) cheers

 

[flyjoe180]

Lovely work on the cockpit Steven.

 

[minitnkr]

......pilot is a tingabeauty for sure.....

 

[yak face]

Top cockpit steven and pilot is looking real nice , cheers tony

 

[Steven000]

Thanks guys - means a lot

A few more things done, first masked and glued in the rear-windows,


The tail-wheel on the Hellcat was retractable, so I had to do some cutting for in-flight-mode.
Left : gear down configuration - Right : cutting a hole in the fuselage, the tail-wheel lost some weight as well,


The tail-wheel is now retracted,


For my steel-rod-display-stand I need a bit of meat inside, so I glued in some balsa wood with a hot-glue-gun,


Next the fuselage-halves were glued together,


I also glued the wings together,


That's all for now, thanks for reading - Cheers