Pictures of F4F Wildcat

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Hi, All,

I recently finished Hasegawa’s 1/72 F4F Wildcat.

Pictures are at

http://www.safeplace.net/darienk/Models/Models.html

Critiques for betterment are welcome. Things I am aware of are

  • silvering of decals
  • gun residue maybe overdone
  • segment where 2 antenna wires are joined is too long
  • canopy pretty good, but still could be cleaner

Oh, the page is titled “Models I Have built”, and only has this one on it, but no, this is not my first. I have been on and off in the hobby. This is about my 12th in my adult life.

Thanks ahead of time.

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Looks good mate. I’ve never seen a wildcat done in tri-color with the red insignia surrounds. Something different. Thanks for sharing.

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Looks like a pretty good build. I like the Hot Rod Wildcat scheme, different than the usual blue grey scheme.

Regards, Rick

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Very nice liitle model,thanks for the look.

Jerry

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Nice looking build you have there! [tup] Thanks for the look.

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Good work on the wildcat. Looks great from where I sit. Thanks for the peek.

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Nice build, Darien, especially the painting! Only two things I noticed–the silvering and the slightly overdone gun residue–you already pointed out. Did you use a nice gloss coat before the decals? I’ve switched from my airbrush to pastel chalks for my gun streaks, since I get more control that way.

Mark

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Thanks for all the feedback.

On the decals, I was determined to not let silvering happen this time, I did do the gloss coat, but I think just not enough. Next time!

Will have to try the pastel chalks also.

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Great looking build.

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Great job!

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Nice work on the Wildcat

Thad

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I think it looks just great! Thanks for sharing.

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Looks good! I’ve got a Wilcat in progress, except its in 1/144 scale. having a devil of a time masking the canopy.

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looks good from my bench.

joe

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Overall, a very nice model. My only critical comment would be: The amount of gun blast residue indicates a hard combat life. The panel lines and other weathering should probably be emphasized a little more to correlate to this level of use.

Darwin, O.F. [alien]

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Looks pretty good. Colorful.

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Looks good! What type of decal setting solution did you use?Except for the silvering it looks like an exceptional model to me,I especially like the canopy lines.Pretty good for a 1/72 scale aircraft!

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Looks pretty good Darien. Congratulations on the choice of subject too.

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Thanks again to all for the comments

A couple specific replies:

dmcgeen, I have not happened to have seen a 1/144 scale anything yet. I’ll bet doing that canopy is fun![:)]

philo426, I have setting solution by Microscale called Micro Set. It worked great on another build where I did have the surface nice and glossy. On that one I was finishing in overall glossy, not flat, so that lent to having it ready for the decals without thinking so much about it. The solution smells like vinegar to me; is that all it is?![?]

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Very nice build, Darien. Thanks for sharing.

Take care,

Mark