General Motors (Grumman) FM-2 Wildcat
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Elongated tail using a piece of plastic.
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Landing flaps separated and detailed with 0,5 mm stripes.
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Prop hub: kit and scratch. Blades (modified): P-51 late version.
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Crystal clear canopy made by Squadron Signal.
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Tamiyas fuselage consists overlapping panels typically for all Grumman’s cats.
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Modified cowling made by BSH - Models: wider and shorter.
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USS Sargent Bay, 1945. Courtesy: USN.
Коментари
15 28 May 2016, 12:03
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Die Fotos beweisen, dass du auch schon vor 18 Jahren exzellente Modelle gebaut hast.
28 May 2016, 12:43
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Beautiful cat Bernhard, all those carefully placed details and perfect paintwork make this one unique .
28 May 2016, 14:58
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Bernhard.....just a beautiful example of your work and its excellence, going back decades....
....Thank you for letting the rest of us mere mortals on to this build!
7 June 2021, 23:02
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About 18 years ago I converted the excellent 1:48 Tamiya kit to the latest variant of the Wildcat; FM-2 build by Eastern Division of GM and powered with the most powerful R-1820 Cyclone. Reduction of weight (2 MG's were deleted) in addition with the additional power of the Cyclone (1350 PS) increased dramatically the performance of the Wildcat.
Last week I noticed that this model is not present in the net...
The model represents the #16 from VC-79, based on CVE-83 USS Sargent Bay, 1945.