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here you go!

That's Radu Brinzan. I have to agree. That hurricane is truly a gem of a build.

Posting a current shelf queen build. Started the kit back in 2016, but got too busy, and the build took a back burner. At the time, the kit was built, and I just need to put together the different parts together plus rigging after. So with the pandemic ongoing, I had time to finish this kit. Anyways, here WIP At the moment, I'm already rigging it, and I'm done! I used 2lb fishing line threaded thru an albion alloy microtube. I made my own eyelets using the fine wire from a small kitchen sieve. :-) At this point I just need to add rigging to the tail planes and control surfaces, and this kit will get a little weathering.

thanks for the tip! am planning to use plasticard to extend the vertical tail.

NOW I REMEMBER! :-) A MILLION THANKS! PS: I also have the SHAR Vacform set. :-)

So, we are still on quarantine here in Manila, Philippines, so I decided to start a build. I have the OLD revell harrier GR1, and I have had this kit for almost 10 years in my stash, along with a resin nose conversion to a GR3. I totally forgot the one who made this, but I want to give a shout of thanks! Anyways, here we go. The resin nose fits perfect, and provides that characteristic look of the snoopy nosed harrier. Generally the Revell harrier is correct in "outline", but requires corrections and added details. Foremost is the exhaust blister fairings. They're triangular in shape, instead of cylindrical. So I decided to plaster on a styrene sheet, added epoxy putty, and started sanding away. I wont be after a perfect shape, but enough to correct the obvious.

Thanks man! I saw your post! Trumpeter really screwed their kit so bad we can't even use it to correct another kit. :-(

it's too narrow when you mate it to the fuselage. I have one.

Thanks man! I hope to get an idea how big a pill I might be swallowing. :-)

Can you post some progress images?

The old revell P-51B is a better point to start a correction, short of owning the Jerry Rutman one. Trumpeter is way off. Even if you graft the resin nose to the Trumpy kit, you still have a problem with the wing shape. I already compared the new revell P-51D as a quick comparison of the accuracy of the lines. Literally, even if the old P-51B had raised lines, they fall almost exactly to the panel lines in the P-51D. I initially considered grafting the revell D nose to the B, but chickened out in trying to destroy a really nice kit.

Yeah! I saw this! Very, very tempted to get one. I just need to see if the trumpeter windscreen would fit. :-)

Now I'm not saying I'm hating on the kit. I ACTUALLY LOVE IT. IT IS ABOUT TIME WE HAD A TRULY ACCURATE LARGE SCALE HELLCAT. But I wish the research on the markings was done a little more thoroughly. Hopefully aftermarket will come up with more markings we can choose from. I plan to partner the kit with my Trumpeter 1/24 A6M2, I plan to build in the future.

Starting with builds in the smaller scale, including looking at profile images, most (I'd say 95%) comes out with early dash 5 variant with the rear windows. That started me digging more information, and looked for the actual aircraft of VF27. On searching, I obviously found the October 1944 image with paper doll just landing on USS Essex after Princeton got severely damaged by a kamikaze attack. Here's the image: Zooming in: Rear window outlined: So I'm in a quandary. I'm considering making my own markings for death and destruction, I'll just scratch the markings; hopefully it should be easy enough.

I hate calling this nitpicking. So a received the 1/24 hellcat as a birthday gift last month. After having time to look over the parts in details, I then checked the markings. I was planning to do Charles Brown Sharkmouth hellcat, since for me, this was fought in the Philippines where I live. I did research on the aircraft, too look for weathering and all of that, but on looking at his plane, is seems to be an early F6F-5 with the quarter panel window at behind the pilot. Am I mistaken?