Grumman F7F-3 Tigercat

Duncan Cook
I can't waint to see the first pictures. 🙂

Bill Gilman
Me too! The detail set is amazing! Two complete resin engines, and you have to attach each cylinder head onto the crankcase individually. Photoetch for the ignition rings, lots of wiring, etc. Also includes resin cowls and engine mounts. Cockpit and wheel wells look fantastic too! I guess it was worth the $50! 🙂

Duncan Cook
I bet it was. BUt you are going to have lots of fun with it. And thats the most important thing.

Bill Gilman
I've begun removing the resin parts from their pour blocks. The Aires resin is very well moulded, I'm not seeing any bubbles or short shots. Having a quick look at the Monogram Tigercat kit, it matches my drawings quite well, so I don't think there will be any big modifications necessary. Oddly, the bottom of both wings have recessed panel lines, but everything else is raised. Weird, especially for 1967 when this kit was first released.

stefan natus
Another one to follow.

Acki
Let the pics come!

Acki
Moin Bill, I have never seen such a clean workbench! Do you build this one or do you sort parts? 🙂

Duncan Cook
My workbench is not so tidy.😉

Vitor Costa
Hi Bill

You could let it like it is, it is already great 🙂, i only can imagine when you put all together.
Waiting for the build process!
🙂

Bill Gilman
Acki - I pushed all of the trash over to the side so you can't see it in the picture! 🙂

Holger Kranich
Do i see some Verlinden GRU7 seats on the picture?🙂🙂

Philip De Keyser
I will follow this one, this is gonne be a great build, looking forward to the first pictures of this beautifull bird, Italeri has one on a 48 scale, maybe something for the future? have fun with the build Bill😉
greetz Phil

Bill Gilman
Holger - I'm not sure what is in the Verlinden box. I bought that about 15 years ago, and it's been sitting on the bench all this time. I've forgotten about it. I will have a look and let you know! 🙂

Holger Kranich
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Kelly Wellington
Hey, Bill...I don't see any weights on that table.
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I just finished assembling the wing units and dry fit them to the wingroots of the assembled fuselage......severe tail-sitting. Since I've already closed up the nose, I have only the engine nacelles and I don't think that even if I load them full with buckshot that it'll do the trick to make this craft sit right on its tricycle undercarriage.

Bill Gilman
Don't worry about it, Kelly. The real Tigercats were so tail heavy that they would also rest on their tails if they weren't full of fuel, etc. Just model it that way. Good conversation starter. 🙂

Or you could weight the front down like this:

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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Kelly Wellington
It's just that so many instructional films have inserted warnings about "now, don't try this at home, kids", so I thought I'd get that outta the way toot sweet.

I just ran through my Tigercat kit and finished assembling it. It is not yet painted, and I'm not sure i will paint it. I quit worrying about the taildragging when I realized that it looks just fine when it is teetering on the included 'stand'. But then, it won't be anywhere as near jiffy-snifty as your completed kit, even if I paint the 'stand' with chrome silver....

Do you intend to use those weights on your kit?