Attack of the giant penny! F4F-3 "Golden Wings" Wildcat

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Sweet 1/144 FM-2 kit.

Filled wing folds, shorten tail to -3 height, scribed in correct cowl flaps, filled FM-2 exhaust outlets, added scratch oil coolers, pitot tube and air intake at top of cowl.

More here:

http://www.percongrp.com/pelikan/aircraft/f4f3_144_2.htm

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Nice, but isn’t the airspeed indicator on the dash the wrong colour?

Seriously, what a great build, that takes some steady handwork!

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Stunning in any scale.

You are mad though…

Karl

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Excellent work, especially in 1/144. Thanks for sharing.

Regards, Rick

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Nice work on the itty bitty Wildcat. The color scheme is very striking.

Darwin, O.F. [alien]

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I’m still trying to figure out how you get the date to change on that giant penny.[;)]

'nother great 1/144 build.

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Nice is this a 2008 build?

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The base looks out of scale

[:o)]

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Beautiful lil’ Wildcat mstanley, thanks for sharing! [tup]

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Now we know where Wing Nuts Giant penny disappeared to. What is it about 1/144 scale that makes people want to super detail them?

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Well aparently WingNuts giant penny was not lost in the mail. I know where it is now, hey WingNut dont cash that giant check.[:-^]

Your Wildcat looks great ![#toast] This Giant Penny thing is really catching on.

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One advantage to these teensee, weensee planes. The builders don’t go through very much paint and putty.

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now the disadvantage is price. Why is it that the cost of some of these are about the same as a 1/48 scale kit?

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I think thje prices are actually pretty good. I bought 4 Sweet kits (a total of 8 aircraft) from hlj.com for a total of $38, including shipping. Also, as one other poster remarked they sure don’t take much paint! [:)]

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Great looking wildcat. I want to try some of the Sweet kits.

AND GIVE ME BACK MY PENNY!!![;)]

And Dave don’t worry… your check is folded neatly and in the garage. Of course I had to putthe car in the street…

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That’s one sweet build[;)]

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Another disadvantage is the “Carpet Monster”! One gulp and and you lose the whole plane![BH]

Zip

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Thats why I don’t have thick carpet. Ya know whats worse than Carpet Monsters is Monster Spiders. Up here in Michigan we get them to where they are almost a foot wide.

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Looks great!Here is my Trumpy 1/32 scale Wildcat

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Not to mention some good eyes and perhaps a good pair of diopters![tup]