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Tomislav Martan (9A4Tc)
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Airfix Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat

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Enhancing cockpit with some PE 
 

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Enhancing cockpit with some PE 
 

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Added some paint. 
 

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Added some paint. 
 

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Some more colours in cockpit. 
 

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Starting with interior. 
 

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Cockpit slowly coming to an end... 
 

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A bit more fiddling through interior... 
 

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Cockpit finished... 
 

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Cockpit finished... 
 

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Slow progress: test fitting and more painting. 
 

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Interior almost finished. 
 

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Beginning of installation of cockpit and landing gear. 
 

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Beginning of installation of cockpit and landing gear. 
 

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Test fit. 
 

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Fancy clips for fuselage gluing... 
 

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Rescribing panel lines with the help of Crazy Modeler. 
 

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Some more painting and test fitting. 
 

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Engine 
 

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The first row of cylinders. 
 

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Engine grey. 
 

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P&W logo 
 

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Engine. 
 

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Cowling closed. 
 

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And fancy clips are back... 
 

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Wing roots. 
 

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Putty touch-ups after primer. 
 

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Wingfolds. 
 

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Greyish. 
 

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Mask-ed... 
 

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Navy Bluesed... 
 

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Decals intensively hanging out with Super Sol. 
 

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All decals placed. 
 

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A small base. 
 

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Wings & Antennas. 
 

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And we call it done. 
 

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And we call it done. 
 

Comments

1 1 January 2017, 20:56
Alec K
Looking great! 👍
19 March 2017, 14:08
John Thomas
Nice work
30 July 2017, 15:40
Dan Cook
Building the next size up 1:48 Hinby Bois FM-2. Will be looking for tips on the paint
30 July 2017, 18:03
Stefan Schacht
nice start, count me in. Cheers Stefan
15 August 2017, 19:29
David Thor
Looking good! Does the kit come with the folded wings?
7 January 2018, 11:32
Tomislav Martan
Thanks. Yes, different set for folded and unfolded.
7 January 2018, 17:08
David Thor
Great job Tomislav! Love the presentation and the clean build and paintjob!
7 January 2018, 17:09
Tomislav Martan
Thanks David. Well, it is clean as it represents new aircraft.
7 January 2018, 21:11
David Thor
Sure, with clean i meant more that it's very evenly applied, no blotches, etc..
8 January 2018, 07:20
Martin Oostrom
This thread deserves a revival. Very well done in this scale 👍
8 January 2018, 07:25

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