Oh man, you guys are gunna love me for this one! I’m trying to find out what aircraft this is. I’ll try to describe it. Someone here had it in their signature but I can’t find it now and I used to know what it is. It’s a twin-engine aircraft that looks similar to an A-26. It’s either all black or Korean war era Navy blue. I keep wanting to call it a Bearcat but I know that’s not it.
Ok, so someone make me look like an idiot and tell me what it is. It has escaped me!
Might be a Grumman F-7 Tigercat if it was in blue.
Regards, Rick
Heh…yea, that’s it. I remebered the Tigercat and then the F7F came to mind. Anyone make a good kit of this aircraft?
Hiya Bone,
AMT/Ertl made a few different variants of the TigerCat in quater scale… If I am not mistaken, they are in production still.
Good hunting… O just watch out for the rubber wheels, they have a tendency to eat the platic…!!
Flaps up, Mike
There was an old 1/48 kit from AMT that wasn’t too bad except for the rubber tires which tended to melt. Monogram made a 1/72 kit eons ago. Both are OOP, but you might find one if you look hard enough. I seem to recall a more recent limited run kit in 1/72, but my memory is failing me on that one.
Regards, Rick
AMT/Ertl made excellent 1/48 scale kits of the F7F-2/2N, F7F-3 and F7F-3N. They are excellent kits the only problem was on the early production kits the rubber tires had a bad habit of melting the wheels into blobs. On the later kits they did not have that problem. There was also a 1/72 scale kit by Monogram that for it’s age is quite good. Unfortunately all of these kits are OOP, however you can still find them at some hobby shops and on e-bay quite regularly.
Evil Bay or the really, really dusty corner of your LHS is about your only hope. I did the Monogram 1/72 about 15-20 years ago. It is fairly good. I have been using the carcass for testing different paint and procedures. It is rather colorful right now, if not very scale like. [alien]
Yea, found quite a few of the 1/72 scale kits on ebay. None of the 1/48 kits however. Although, if the 1/48 kits had that problem with the tires, I’m not sure I’d want it anyway.
Bones-coa, True Details made an AM set of resin wheels for the F7F that work real nice with the AMT/Ertl kits. I used them to replace the wheels on my two Tigercats that had the meltdown and they look great.