Eduard Helklcat 1/48

Mgawa · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:25 am

Greetings all,

I have finished two days before this very nice new model released by Eduard. Musr say that without help of kind people of this web site this project could not be possible to do so I grant thanks to all of you for valuable data and info. Kit is made to represent plane flown by famous ace Alexander Vraciu.

Django · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:21 am

That looks very nice! I really like the weathering.

Mgawa · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:11 pm

Thank you Django. Wethering is specific for the airplane operated over the ocean. main point is to get a little bit bletched areas as well sun light is very strong. But no dust and mud... only original dirt coming from airplane.

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:37 pm

Very nice! :supz:

The only minor critique I might have is the paint chipping. In a salt water environment, any chipping that exposed bare metal would be quickly touched up to protect from corrosion.

SN

b29flteng · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:47 pm

Great job!. I like the decal work.

Sean Curtiss · **Posted:** Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:46 pm

Besides the great job I would add the excellent photographs too!

Mgawa · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:13 am

Thank you gentleman and special thanks to Sean- this is first time ever to get compliments for images. Steve- I know for this but I have seen on images damaged paint on the same leading edge. And only there. You have nice spot this.

Cheers

Matt Gunsch · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:41 am

It looks great, but the colors are wrong, I heard the Lone Star Hellcat is the most accurately painted Hellcat around.
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb28 ... C_0811.jpg
( said as I am ducking to avoid the thrown bits :hide:

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Mgawa · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:44 am

I have used paint charts for the reconstruction of colors. So I am sure in the correct colors of my kit. Never hear about tje Lone Star Hellcat- any more info?

Matt Gunsch · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:15 am

Mgawa wrote:

I have used paint charts for the reconstruction of colors. So I am sure in the correct colors of my kit. Never hear about tje Lone Star Hellcat- any more info?

your colors are correct, the lone star hellcat has to have THE worst paint job of any warbird flying, I did not think a Hellcat could look bad, but they have proven me wrong, check out this link http://missingaircrew.com/images/f6f/hellcat_08.jpg

Mgawa · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:00 pm

Thank you

Tom Crawford · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:18 pm

I've been considering building an F6F in the markings of VF-8 as flown by Cmdr. Daniel Rehm off the Light Carrier USS Bataan...So far I haven't been able to find any official squadron markings..The Nat'l. Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensicola doesn't have anything much to offer. This was late 1943/44. Truk, Marshalls & Marianas era..I don't think they were flying with the red outline on the national star and bar insignia at this time.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions. Maybe they didn't have any distinctive markings.
Tom

Tom Crawford · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:20 pm

I'm sorry, I got all caught up in my line of thought. Very Nice Model, so nice it got me to thinking about my shelved project.
Tom

Mgawa · **Posted:** Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:59 am

Thank you Tom for your nice words. have you try to find more about the Cmdr. Daniel Rehm, maybe his family?

Tom Crawford · **Posted:** Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:30 am

Mgawa
I have visited with Cmdr. Rehm's family and gone thru his personal pictures but I guess he was too busy fighting a war to have a picture made with his Hellcat. I asked the NMNA in Pensacola if they had any record of the bulletin no. for his Hellcat but they said there records didn't show any specific plane assigned to him. I found that a little strange. He passed away before I could have a sit down with him. He has plenty of postwar pictures of his Naval reserve Hellcats when he served as a squadron comdr. at NAS New Orleans. He had 13 kills before being rotated back to the states....Tom

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