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After twenty odd years of not modelling (the last aircraft kits I built were 1/72 Airfix that hung from my bedroom ceiling by cotton thread!!) and eighteen months of trying armour and aircraft in a variety scales and marvelling at the standard on here I have finally completed a 1/48 aircraft.
This is Hobbyboss's Wildcat F4F-3 built OOB, finished as the aircraft of Lt-Cmdr Butch O'Hare of VF-3. Paints are Vallejo Model Air applied by brush with a couple of grey washes over the top and a final coat of matt varnish. The washes seem to have worked better on the underside than the top and I need to improve my canopy painting technique. Nice kit to put together once I'd worked the undercarriage out. Just needs aerial wire to finish. Please enjoy.
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This is Hobbyboss's Wildcat F4F-3 built OOB, finished as the aircraft of Lt-Cmdr Butch O'Hare of VF-3. Paints are Vallejo Model Air applied by brush with a couple of grey washes over the top and a final coat of matt varnish. The washes seem to have worked better on the underside than the top and I need to improve my canopy painting technique. Nice kit to put together once I'd worked the undercarriage out. Just needs aerial wire to finish. Please enjoy.
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