Paul Juliano Please allow me to be the first to pull up a chair to see this big boy get built!

Urban Gardini Looking great mate!

Maciej Bellos A very big cat. I am in it for the ride!

Mats Bengtsson Thank you very much mates, you are all welcome to join the build Next step is to put some green colour on that cockpit.

Urban Gardini I saw this earlier about the cockpit colours on the Hellcat!

For those building the Airfix Hellcat a few words on interior colours with links in here https://brexitmodeller.com/…/t…/3136-grumman-f6f-5-hellcat/…

All interior on the - 5 apart from the wheel Wells and Cockpit is zinc chromate yellow not interior green. For the USS Randolph, French option or any sea blue Fleet Air Arm aircraft the Cockpit is interior green below the side consoles with flat black above. Basically any us hellcat bu no. 80000 plus. The box FAA aircraft and "paper doll" will have all interior green Cockpit. bu no. 95000 onwards will have black cowling panels otherwise zinc chromate yellow or green. No - 5's were painted grumman grey and no bronze green was used in the Cockpit. As far as wheel Wells go for exterior colour however if wheels or undercarriage legs were refurbished they may be in aluminium lacquer. No rear fuselage interiors were painted interior green.

Gareth Windsor Well I will just pull up a seat here. I've got a few Hellcats in the stash including this one. Nice start.

Stephan Ryll Just arrived to take a seat here Mats very nice start

Björn Svedberg I'm planning on building this soon too, so I'll grab a chair and do some spying. Nice start!

Mats Bengtsson Thank you very much mates

Thanks for the link and information Urban. I'll go for interior green this one (the MkII option). For anyone building the F6F I can also highly recommend the Squadron signal walk around No. 9

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