Chris D.

A restored example at the Virginia Military Aviation Museum: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101519321065277&set=a.10100417362204667.1073741828.7604741&type=3 It flies but is not popular with the pilots at the museum.

Very nice work - not too weathered.

Wow! Fantastic finish and a unique buildi!

Just fantastic !!!!!! Great fit, finish and weathering!

Excellent weathering and representation of the aircraft - well done! Chris

Looks great - really sharp!

Lovely - such a great looking aircraft, well finished! Chris

Awesome work and a great way save display space....

Finished my Trumpeter 1/32 Hellcat - found some great pictures of this particular AC and unit at Peleilu in 1944. After I had finished assembly at which point I discovered that it was an early -5 with the side windows (surprisingly every profile, decal and kit gets this wrong). The wheels were also the diamond pattern - dammit! At least I was able to put in the short barrelled 20mm and put tape over the MG aperture and paint the radome blue (both wrong in the instructions). Painted with Tamiya Sea Blue using Montex masks. I kept it easy with the weathering to avoid a quilted look, photos showed that the finish of the AC was not extremely weathered.

Beautiful work!!

I received mine as well - any suggestions on where to find a set of the wire wheels?