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Bernhard Schrock (Yellowwing)
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Grumman F6F-5K/3K Drone Groupbuild

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12 October 2016, 15:39
Bernhard Schrock
...by accident I delete the 1st album "F6F-55". Because of them second one.
12 October 2016, 15:41
Rex
I am glad you started over,,,,,,,,,,these are some of my favorite Hellcats.
12 October 2016, 17:44
Bernhard Schrock
My Hellcat-drone team-Mate Hanno already has come a long way. Let's see if I still can catch up🙂. But for this I first need an engine.
To save time I'm going to go the easy way and use 2 complete banks of cylinders from my already finished Tigercat. They were quite good.
11 November 2016, 21:04
Hanno Kleinecke
Catching up fast, as I see it....... Leaves me no choice with the oillinks, now I have to ....... Brilliant looking engine Bernhard ( P&W Masterclass) 🙂 🙂
12 November 2016, 16:09
Marc A.
Take a seat and enjoy the time!!! Bernhard show is to start 😄 🙂 looking forward for next steps
12 November 2016, 17:33
John Thomas
Very cool
12 November 2016, 18:19
Adam Gudynowski
Next model straight after Łoś? You don't waste Your time, do You? 🙂 Wires and details on engine give resin look 🙂
18 November 2016, 20:26
Bernhard Schrock
Adam: you are right. After Łoś I need some kind of "break"🙂. Hanno and I are going to build our drones parallel. I intend to invest more time in the finish than into detailing.
18 November 2016, 20:33
Spanjaard
engine looking good. and after what i saw followign the Łoś, i will not miss this one 🙂
19 November 2016, 17:23
Erik Leijdens
Great progress indeed, will follow this one with interest since i have Eduard Hellcats in the stash too.
20 November 2016, 07:48
Bernhard Schrock
Ready for paint🙂 The most of the airplane was painted in fluorescent orange (FO). Very eye catching but not easy to manage because that the fluorescent paint do not "cover" good. Because if that I experimented first with different mixes of the fluorescent orange. First run for basis coat for overall (25% sm white H130, 25% matt yellow H154 and 50% FO H209) produced an acceptable finish.
21 November 2016, 06:29
Bernhard Schrock
1st step (basis coat): 25% H130 (semimatt white), 25% H154 (matt yellow), 50% H209 (fluorescent orange)
2nd step (FO-mix): 10% H130, 10% H154, 20% H174 (matt red), 60% H209,
3nd step: preshading (unusual for me) with the FO-mix.
4th step: overall FO-mix with slight irregularities (mottling) = very satisfied with the result.
5th step: masking for the last coat (red)

By the way: during my research I discovered that the upper sides of the wings and elevators were painted FO and not red as in the instructions. In my opinion only the control surfaces were painted red.
1 December 2016, 20:59
Erik Leijdens
Fantastic paintjob Bernhard. Nice to see the variations in colours, always tought they were orange all over.
4 December 2016, 09:41
Soeren R.
The painjob is indeed awesome!
4 December 2016, 09:43
Patrick Hagelstein
With the difference in colours the paint sheme really comes to life. Very nice!
4 December 2016, 10:19
Bernhard Schrock
Alley Cat decals: the quality is excellent but the Bu.-Nr for the 004 is incorrect. Separating the wrong number and spare box helps to solve this problem.
6 December 2016, 08:08
Bernhard Pethe
Wenn Ich hier reinschaue, muss ich immer die Sonnenbrille aufsetzten, damit ich mir nicht die Augen verblitze.😉
7 December 2016, 10:20
Hanno Kleinecke
Beautiful colour, impossible to overlook ! 🙂
7 December 2016, 11:03
Bernhard Schrock
Thank you mates!
After months and months of correcting, refining, correcting the PZL.37 Łoś I can't believe that the Hellcat drone is completed... (Except exhaust stains and flattened tires). This two last tasks tomorrow and now as usual is time for a glass of wine🙂
8 December 2016, 20:04
Erik Leijdens
Fantastic Bernhard! A rare and beautiful coloured Hellcat! Thanks for showing us how it's supposed to be done, great job 👍
8 December 2016, 20:15
Hanno Kleinecke
Fertig ! Du hast mich überholt 🙂 Wundervoller bunter Vogel !
9 December 2016, 07:45
Bernhard Pethe
Stichwort, glass of wine. Bei Deiner derzeitigen Schlagzahl muss man sich wegen des Alkoholkonsums keine Gedanken machen?😉
9 December 2016, 16:31
gorby
Looks amazing Bernhard. Fantastic job. Ich glaube, Sie haben Ihren Wein verdient.
9 December 2016, 16:37
Marcel Klemmer
Bernhard, ich sehe rot 🙂 Sieht klasse aus die Katze
9 December 2016, 16:49
Christian Ristits
So cool!
9 December 2016, 20:13
Bernhard Schrock
Tonight I took the "real" pictures with my Nikon 995. I was very surprised how much the model looked like candy...🙁 It's probably the fluorescent orange in combination with red. Funny enough the 2 smartphone pictures I took yesterday look much better...
9 December 2016, 20:18
Bernhard Schrock
Thanks to my Drone Groupbuild mate Hanno today I realized that the rear antenna on my drone was wrong. I just corrected it: they TWO parallel wires (two last pictures).
20 December 2016, 19:02
MRMLA
Masterpiece Bernhard! As usually! 👍 👍
26 December 2016, 14:28

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53 images
1:48
Completed
1:48 F6F (Eduard EX071)1:48 Hellcat (F6F-3, F6F-5, F6F-3N, F6F-5N) (Eduard R0006)1:48 F6F wheels (Eduard 648102)1+

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