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RyanShort1
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Does anyone have any good pictures of USS Franklin F6F Hellcats that would be enough to base a model on? I've got an F6F model and since my uncle was onboard that ship, I'd really like to do it up in that ship's markings.

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Ryan, I've been working on a Franklin project myself. Are you looking at '44 or 45? Here is the one pic I have found that has the tail shown in 44 as only plane # on fuselage and tail, supposedly in July of 45 an LL tailcode was implemented.
http://www.researcheratlarge.com/Ships/ ... 988-44.jpg

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Holedigger wrote:
Ryan, I've been working on a Franklin project myself. Are you looking at '44 or 45?

Any time works for me.

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Well Mark aka Hellcat's dad flew F6Fs in VF-13 on the Frankin Oct 1944. Shame he's not here to answer the Q :idea:

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