Hey everyone, its been a long time since ive been online. I have been working on Eduards Hellcat for about 5 months now, and i decided to get around to put some pics online. I have to hurry up and finish it as i am due in afghanistan in about 4 weeks, so i am down to crunch time. I just havnt had much time to work on it. Hope you all enjoy so far. I am welcome to critics and suggestions!!. - Chris
Looks like it is coming along nicely. I like Vraciu’s markings on a Hellcat. It appears you have some dihedral in the tailplanes, but they should be dead flat. Or perhaps it is the angles of the photos.
Nice work so far, but I agree with John on the tailplane dihedral.
regards, Rick
Looks nice Chris! I certainly understand the feeling of being close, but not having the time to finish it off.
Make sure to post some when it’s complete.
Happy July 4th!
Mike
I wish you good luck, and may God watch over you and keep you safe on your coming tour of duty.
Limbas 237
thanks for the compliments, it being only my second plane, im much happier with the results than the last time. I am currently stuck on the weathering. What to weather and to where to weather. the white bottom also has me a bit confused. How dirty do the bottom of the hellcats get, and how well were they maintained by the crew. The only photographs i can find are in black and white and they dont show very much in color differation. - Chris
Here’s a few color ones, I hope they help.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/021052.jpg
http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/020913.jpg
http://wargamingforums.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/f6fhellcat.jpg
http://www.merriam-press.com/images/products/detail/mm001_fc.jpg
the tail wings look extremely flat, i think the camera angle brought them out to look like they have a dihedral thought. Suddenly im not to sure, i’ll have to keep looking at it tho, thanks for the advice.
She looks mighty nice, well done, cant wait to see more
Remember that radials are dirty engines. They spit out oil and gas out the exhaust and panel lines (streak in the direction of airflow). Crews on the carrier didn’t really care how clean the planes where, just as long as they ran, although some measures where taken to prevent corosion from the salt water humidity. When the ship docked at Pearl the old, beat up planes where swapped with new ones. So how much weathering is really up to you.
This could also be the camera but it sure looks too “blue” to my eye. I agree with other comments regarding the horizontal stab. It sure seems to have dihedral in it. When you start weathering I would suggest a filter to tone down the the sea blue and intermediate blue, especially on the surfaces more exposed to the sun.
