Grumman F4F Martlet Airfix 2015 tool, 2016 box

Guy Rump
Inside fuselage painted interior green. Cockpit innards now together. 🙂

Patryk S.
Following!

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Cockpit plus front undercarriage now completed. 🙂

Welcome Patryk and Roland. 👍

Thanks for the likes Roland and Andrew B. 👍

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Fuselage together with undercarriage. This was quite a difficult fit with lots of moving bits around and then taping together the fuselage and having to add some filler. 🙂

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Nose is finally complete (except for propellor) On the initial part of the nose quite a bit of filling was required. Next will be attaching the tail and wings. 🙂

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Final part of the nose fitted. Wings and tail plane attached. 🙂

Thank you for the likes Andrew B and Maciej 👍

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Primer added, then shading highlights and low lights. 🙂

Patryk S.
Looking very good so far!

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Base camouflage coat added Hataka Extra Dark Sea Gray. 🙂

Thanks for your kind comment Patryk. 👍

Thanks for the like Mirko 👍

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Vallejo Dark Slate Gray added on top of the Extra Dark Sea Gray 🙂

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Vallejo Sky added to underneath of aircraft. 🙂

Thanks to Gareth, Alex R, PE Butler and Rui for the likes, much appreciated. 👍

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Decals added to the aircraft, some have to go on the propellor and the wheels but apart from those they're all on. Next will be panel line wash before adding a satin varnish coat. 🙂

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Panel wash, a start on weathering and then satin varnish applied. 🙂

Thanks to Gary K and Al Berto for the likes. 👍

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The final bits and pieces including rigging, propellor, canopy etc. have been added.
I now declare this aircraft complete.

The aircraft denoted was flown by Lt (RN) Dennis Mayvore Jeram during Operation Torch aboard HMS Formidable as a part of 888 Sqn. The US markings were an attempt to avoid "friendly" fire from the newly deployed and then green US troops.

Dennis Jeram entered the Air Branch of the Royal Navy for a seven year engagement on 1st May 1939 and was rated as a Midshipman.
He did his elementary flying course at 14 EFTS Elmdon and moved on to No. 1 FTS Leuchars for No. 6 Course, which ran from 6th November 1939 to 21st April 1940.

Jeram was loaned to the RAF on 15th June 1940 and was at 7 OTU Hawarden from 17th June to 1st July, where he converted to Hurricanes before joining 213 Squadron at Exeter on 1st July.

He made his first flight with the squadron on the 2nd. He destroyed a Ju88 and probably another south of Portland Bill on 11th August, he destroyed Me110s on the 12th and 15th, destroyed a Do17 on 15th September and probably a Me110 on the 30th.

After the Battle of Britain Jeram returned to the FAA and in December 1941 he was posted to 888 Squadron. From February 1942 until the end of 1943 the squadron was in the carrier HMS Formidable.
During the operations in North Africa, Jeram shot down a Vichy French Bloch 175 on 6th November 1942. It was searching for an Allied convoy, which had been reported as it passed through the Straits of Gibraltar on its way to North Africa.

Three days later Jeram shared in destroying a Ju88 near Algiers. It had Italian markings and a German crew. He also took part in the invasion of Sicily and the Salerno landings. Jeram retired from the Royal Navy in 1954 as a Lieutenant-Commander.

He died on 24th March 1977 aged 59, the death being registered in Poole, Dorset.

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Patryk S.
Congratulations on a great build!

Guy Rump
Many thanks for your very kind comment Patryk. 👍

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Bas Tonn
Great background story about the pilot and the plane !!
Things like this is a great addition to modeling, compared to the late eighties when i build my first models.

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