Hellcat progress

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April 4, 2018
Mostly riveting, but also a bit of scribing using dymo-tape as a guide.
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April 4, 2018
Opening up the flaps on the engine cowl with a razor saw.
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April 7, 2018
Cockpit painted and weathered.
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April 7, 2018
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April 7, 2018
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April 8, 2018
The engine is finished. I did some additions using styrene rod and lead wire. The PE wire harness was part of the kit.
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April 8, 2018
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April 8, 2018
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April 11, 2018
Propeller is finished. I chose to go with a metal finish on the center cone.
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April 11, 2018
Pre-shading finished.
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April 11, 2018
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April 13, 2018
Base camoflage finished with some post shading added on.
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April 13, 2018
I went for the interior green in the wheel bays. It should have been white like the rest of the under side, but I like it better this way 😉.
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April 13, 2018
Everything painted and all decals on and a gloss coat awaiting weathering.
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April 13, 2018
Last look at the engine before assembly.
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April 13, 2018
Assembled. It is starting to take shape 😉.
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April 14, 2018
THe Hellcat is finished!
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April 14, 2018
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April 14, 2018
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April 14, 2018
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April 14, 2018
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April 14, 2018
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June 9, 2018
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June 9, 2018
It really does look angry! 😉
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June 9, 2018
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June 9, 2018
Lots of stencils in this kit..
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June 9, 2018
The flaps on the engine cowl that I opened up.
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April 14, 2018
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June 9, 2018
A few misses. Should have used more putty and sanding. Luckily it is on the underside 😉.
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April 14, 2018
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April 14, 2018
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April 14, 2018
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April 14, 2018
Compared to the Tamiya Corsair. The Hellcat actually looks bigger...
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June 9, 2018
The Tamiya Zero is really small compared to its adversary.
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April 14, 2018
Even the two-seated Hasegawa Dauntless looks small compared to the Eduard Hellcat.
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June 9, 2018
Phiu!.. I was a bit scared there for a while ;p. Nothing is bigger than the Lancaster! It really does look angry, though..

Kommentarer

2 4 April 2018, 17:29

Björn Svedberg
I started building the Eduard Hellcat. I'm taking it slow with this build. First step was riveting. The kit fits together well, so I decided to do it directly on the plastic. I have saved a few rivet lines until after the fuselage has been glued together.

4 April 2018, 17:33

Alex-Ovidiu Mihailescu
Nice job ! But I have a question: how do you get along with the scriber from Tamiya? I find hard to work with on round surfaces. It goes quite good on flat ones , but for an aircraft spine for example it's just doesn't work.

4 April 2018, 18:46

Björn Svedberg
Thanks Alex!
I haven't used it all that much yet, mostly on flat surfaces with dymo-tape as a guide. When going around the spine of the fuselage I usually use a razor saw.

4 April 2018, 19:35

Björn Svedberg
I also opened up the flaps on the engine cowl using a razor saw.

4 April 2018, 19:36

Alex-Ovidiu Mihailescu
Thanks Björn ! As you said on flat surfaces with dymo tape is ok , even though you must hold it on an certain angle otherwise will not work. Thanks for the tip with the razor blade .
Btw your riveter is from RB Productions?
I'll be watching.

4 April 2018, 21:27

Björn Svedberg
Yes, It's the one from RB Productions. 🙂

5 April 2018, 04:50

Adam Gudynowski
Great job Bjorn!

5 April 2018, 11:22

Björn Svedberg
Thank you Adam! 🙂 There is more to come.

5 April 2018, 20:36

Soeren R.
Looking good Björn.
Riveting is still a thing, which I should also look into in the near future. 🙂

6 April 2018, 05:47

Björn Svedberg
Thank you Sören!
I only just started doing it myself. This is only the third plane I'm doing it on. It is fun! 😉
The biggest challenge is finding the riveting diagrams for the plane.
David Damek (Plasmo) has a nice video on YouTube covering riveting and scribing.

6 April 2018, 12:18

Björn Svedberg
I got some work in today, and finished the cockpit. I will probably do the engine next..

7 April 2018, 18:34

Germen V
nice start

7 April 2018, 20:24

Jens
Hello Björn, what you are doing on extras is just 👍 👍 👍 a tip as a replacement for the Dymoband, it is too stiff and inflexible for me, I take the "Tamiya Curve Tape" hsc-modell.ospan.de/..hp?products_id=31576. for rumpbacks or curves simply awesome to stick 🙂 and sufficiently thick 👍

7 April 2018, 20:57

Björn Svedberg
Thanks Germen and Jens! 🙂
And again, thank you Jens, for the advice. I'm always learning new things here. It's great! 👍

7 April 2018, 21:41

Björn Svedberg
I have finished the engine. I did some small additions using styrene rod and lead wire. The PE wire harness is part of the kit. The engine cowl will hide most of the engine, but it was fun to put a little more work into the engine. 🙂

8 April 2018, 16:06

Spanjaard
Very nice engine and cockpit Björn

9 April 2018, 07:22

Alex-Ovidiu Mihailescu
You pulled a hell of a job on the engine. Awesome!

9 April 2018, 19:00

Björn Svedberg
Thank you Spanjaard and Alex! 🙂 I really appreciate it.
I've painted the propeller and pre-shaded the whole plane. Next is basic camoflage and preparing the nose for the shark mouth.

11 April 2018, 15:44

Björn Svedberg
Everything is painted and the decals are all on, including all the tiny stencils 😛. The gloss coat is on and everything is ready for weathering 🙂.

13 April 2018, 14:50

Soeren R.
Wonderful work!

13 April 2018, 15:56

Marcel Klemmer
Very, very nice

13 April 2018, 17:36

Alex-Ovidiu Mihailescu
Everything looks great , but I wonder. Björn, do you have a job , wife and everything?
You have almost finished the model in 2 weeks.😉 🙂

14 April 2018, 05:46

Björn Svedberg
Thank you Sören, Marcel and Alex!
The Hellcat is finished. When I started building this kit I was surprised at how big the Hellcat is, so I added a few comparisions to previous planes that I've built. The comparision to the Zero is especially interesting as the Hellcat was developed to counter the Zero.

14 April 2018, 13:54

Jay Dubya
You are absolutely correct Bjorn - the size comparison between the Hellcat and Zero is quite stark. At my first, uneducated glance at the your photo, I thought one was 1/48 and the other was 1/72. No wonder the very green, late war Zero pilots felt intimidated by the Hellcat!
That said, your model does a fantastic job in conveying that menace - great job mate.
Cheers to you.

15 April 2018, 04:26

Jens
Hello Björn, or good morning to Sweden
the painting of the Hellcat is not an easy task and made by you very convincing 👍, which elicits me on the pictures but a real WOW, the Zero, I do not like them, an aircraft that I had never bought or built, but the Stains are so awesome, you can only write WOW 🙂,
the F6F Hellcat of course deserves the same praise, and since I have already tried 4 of Eduard and 3 of Hasegawa, I know what your work means 👍 👍 👍 👍 absolute respect for the result 👍

15 April 2018, 06:04

Björn Svedberg
Thank you gentlemen for your very nice words! 🙂
@Jens, I only added the Zero as a size comparison. When I painted it I imagined a man with a bucket of paint and a large paintbrush at a jungle base having to do the camouflage painting, so it is brush painted. The hardest thing was not to make it too symmetric. I'm glad you like it! 🙂.

15 April 2018, 07:13

Jens
Hello Björn, a small tip for all such Specktarnarn work to avoid the symmetry you should form each stain after a continent or a letter, I prefer letters, and even in such field work as the Zero I use the airbrush

sorry my english 🙁 spots

15 April 2018, 07:18

Björn Svedberg
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Jens! 👍

15 April 2018, 08:39

Alex-Ovidiu Mihailescu
Another tipp to avoid symmetry is to work in different parts of the plane. Make one stain or sausage or whatever on the nose ,than on tail than on wing and so on. This way you won't have same shape pattern and size.

15 April 2018, 09:57

Maciej Bellos
Both great models. I always thought the WW II fighters were more or less the same size, but the difference here is quite noticeable.

15 April 2018, 10:39

Björn Svedberg
Thanks Alex and Maciej! 🙂
@Alex, that's a good point, not only to look at the symmetry of the stain, but also the pattern. 👍
@Maciej, I was the same. It wasn't until I started building them that I realized how different they are in size. And also how small they are compared to modern fighters. I just bought the Tomcat, also by Grumman, and that is BIG.😉

15 April 2018, 10:49

Björn Svedberg
Just re-uploading a few pictures that seem to have been corrupted in the album. Nothing new to see.😉

9 June 2018, 10:54

Maciej Bellos
Yeah, the Tomcat is a big bird, so you can't compare it with a Hellcat or even a Hawker Sea Fury. The later is rather large and compares favorably to an F-16 while it's cowling sits higher than the cockpit of an F-111.

9 June 2018, 14:40

Spanjaard
excellent job

9 June 2018, 15:02