Eduard F6F-3 Hellcat

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Eduard F6F-3 Hellcat

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I must have fifteen Eduard catalogs lying around my office, and I picked one up today to flip through it. I’m waiting on the PE parts for the second in my series of Galland’s Emils to arrive (can’t start without them), and I figured it’d help pass the time and take my mind off how badly I want to start that build.

...and I saw this bad-boy:

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Carlos and I have spoken about how I pick subjects before. I’m a 109 guy, that aircraft has so much grace and beauty...

...but when it comes to American and Allies aircraft in-general, I seem to look for something completely different. And my reaction to this subject was similar to how I reacted to the Curtiss Warhawk. Aircraft like this just have that certain *someting*. Call it “shock and awe”, say “Well yeah bro, anything with wings, guns, and a shark mouth painted on it!”, or say whatever you’d like, it’s bad ass.

This was one of those kits I had to order as soon as I saw it, so I did. And the bastard won’t be collecting any dust in my stash after it arrives, either.
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Excellent choice Kenny, probably one of the best 1/48 Hellcat on the market ( if not the best). Wonderful kit to build, you will love it!

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KSaarni wrote:Excellent choice Kenny, probably one of the best 1/48 Hellcat on the market ( if not the best). Wonderful kit to build, you will love it!

- Kari
Im really looking forward to it. I’ll have it on the workbench once my Galland Battle of France Emil enters the painting stage.
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I have the ProfiPack version of that one. Love me some US Navy aircraft! :beau:
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Medicman71 wrote:I have the ProfiPack version of that one. Love me some US Navy aircraft! :beau:

I read up on this one a little this afternoon, apparently it was quite an illustrious aircraft with a great reputation. I’m excited about it.
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Re: Eduard F6F-3 Hellcat

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That's a great kit! Not all Profipacks come with resin but this one has gorgeous resin tires and wheels, which address one of the few shortcomings of this kit (skinny tires). I don't recall any issues with the build. I elected to open up the blocked off tail wheel well...

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Re: Eduard F6F-3 Hellcat

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Bruce and Kari, those are some great pics of what I’m learning is a great plane! Thank you for sharing them!!

John, that’s wicked cool about the resin wheels, and the kit quality in-general. Eduard is my favorite mfg going right now, and I’m really happy I bought this kit. Of course, I also totally screwed myself because now I’m chewing my nails over not one but TWO shipments from the Czech Republic that’ll arrive down here in the bayou whenever LOL
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