Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat (Sword)

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May 22, 2023
The Sword kit has a reasonably nice rendition of the engine in resin.
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May 22, 2023
These big honking ejection towers need to go bye-bye before the engine can go in.
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May 22, 2023
A little Alclad, some Gunze, and a Future wash (liquid skill) and the engine looks OK.
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May 22, 2023
The cockpit was enhanced by instrument and control decals, and some photoetch rudder pedal and seat harnesses.
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May 22, 2023
A better view of the harnesses.
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May 22, 2023
I drilled out the lightening holes in the tailwheel as they are quite prominent.
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May 22, 2023
Basic assembly complete. Not much filler was required, the fit was quite good.
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May 22, 2023
When you drill out the axle holes and go too far (i.e. right on through) you need to fix your mistake. A couple of styrene discs made with a punch and die set came to the rescue.
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May 22, 2023
Up on her legs. I added some additional actuator struts to the main gear.
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May 22, 2023
I also added the small vanes in the intakes on the leading edge of the wings.
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May 22, 2023
The Glossy Sea Blue is from MRP - very smooth and glossy finish.
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May 22, 2023
Another view.
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May 22, 2023
The stickers came from Starfighter decals. I'm not sure that the background to the Felix the Cat artwork is white - many sources show this as yellow.
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May 22, 2023
The decals reacted beautifully to the decal solvents from Microscale.
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May 22, 2023
Adding the gun sight, wheels, gear doors, wing pylons, drop tank, and the main gear strut torque links.
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May 22, 2023
I used a semi-gloss clear to provide, in my view, a more realistic "scale gloss."
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May 22, 2023
Finishing the prop.
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May 22, 2023
The kit's rollover structure is pretty lame, and doesn't really look like the real thing.
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May 22, 2023
So I built a new one from card stock and styrene rod.
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May 22, 2023
Adding the rest of the bits including the canopy, rockets, prop, whip antenna, and aerial wire.
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May 22, 2023
This was a quick build, and I hope you enjoy the rest of the photos. Cheers!
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May 22, 2023
How do you see when you're driving this baby?
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May 22, 2023
A couple of late war hot rods! The Sea Fury is the Aki Products resin kit that I built a while back.

Komentarzy

19 22 May 2023, 22:27

Bill Gilman
Hi mates, here's a quick build I did at the end of last year. It's the Sword 1:72 F8F-1 Bearcat. It's really a nice little kit and went together well. I didn't have to add too much extra detail but I couldn't resist tweaking a few things. Hope you enjoy the pictures. Cheers, Bill

22 May 2023, 22:48

Ben M
Always good to see a F8F. I plan to do one in the Thai livery.

22 May 2023, 23:28

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1:72 Sword kit

Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat

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