This is the first of a trio I built for a personal Pacific Warrior mini-GB. It’s Hasegawa’s “Cat Mouth” boxing, but I built it to represent a “generic” Navy Hellcat. All the plastic, except for a resin seat and wheels, is out of the box. It’s painted with MM enamels, weathered with Flory’s washes and pastels. The markings are painted on, and you eagle-eyed modelers will notice that the national insignia is a little “off.” This was the first time I’ve used Montex masks. (Next time I’ll do a little better.) I tried to show an airframe with some wear-and-tear. The exhaust stains on the fuselage sides might be too heavy, but I’m happy with the way the staining on the belly turned out.
Anyway, that’s the build’s story. Let’s take a look at the pictures…
I know it’s not perfect, but I think it’s a solid 3-footer. Thanks for looking! Feel free to question, comment, or criticize. Your feedback is welcome.
Better then a 3 footer O. =] I hear ya with those masks. It does taking a bit of tinkering with to get used to how they operate. Plenty worth it though.
That is a remarkable Hellcat O. Superb weathering on it overall. I don’t your exhaust staining as over done at all. It really looks good. Hard to tell that your Montex insignia is off. Looks farly straight from your pics. I’ve yet to use any of my Montex masks but, you certainly have provided me with a bit of inspiration. Great job on the always awesome Hellcat.
Thats a really nicxe looking build. I have been looking at the markings and i can’t see any issues. I will be useing a set of their masks for the first timesoon, how my markings come out like that.
