Plasto 121 Posted February 21 At the end of last year I had a hankering to build something 'big'. Big being relative as I mainly build 1/48 or less frequently 1/72.. I had a troll though the stash and hit upon the old Revell F4F-4 Wildcat.. It was the 'Smithsonian' boxing and I got it for not much $$ and it came with some Microscale Decals.. I built it OOB added not much in the way of extra detail corrected not much and had a lot of fun... Here it is in all of it's glory... The hardest part ( apart form suppression of AMS) was not loosing detail / panel line on the spine and belly when sorting the seams.. Impossible to do with raised panel lines and detail.. In the end I added in panels over the sorted seams from foil tape to reinstate the panel effect on the fuselage... Im sure not up to usual LSP standards but fun.. Cheers John 20 Shaka HI, Model_Monkey, Gigant and 17 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MusAlp 212 Posted February 21 Looks nice 1 Martinnfb reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LSP_Kevin 22,293 Posted February 21 Looks great to me! Kev 1 Martinnfb reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gazzas 4,100 Posted February 21 Very cool! Love the foil tape idea to reinstate panel lines. Gaz 1 Martinnfb reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Troy Molitor 1,755 Posted February 21 Lovely efforts John. Always great to see a Revell classic done properly. Well done! Troy 1 Martinnfb reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mattlow 802 Posted February 21 I have this kit. Several times I've looked through it with the intention of selling it - but each time I hang on to it as it just looks like it'd build up nicely. I think yours shows that this is true. I don't think raised detail is a liability on this airframe as from what I've seen it is pretty lumpy in real life.. Nice build. Matt 3 Gigant, Troy Molitor and Martinnfb reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jack 4,476 Posted February 21 Very nice Cat indeed 1 Martinnfb reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Out2gtcha 22,913 Posted February 21 Agreed with the others..............I think it looks great! I know the feeling, as suppressing the desire to add every bit of AM can be maddening. Turned out great! 2 Martinnfb and Jack reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dennismcc 3,020 Posted February 21 That looks great, just like the one I built in the 90's though better built and painted ! Cheers Dennis Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MARU5137 13,291 Posted February 21 looks A REAL STUNNER. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Plasto 121 Posted February 22 thanks all im glad you think its ok.. Cheers John Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hubert Boillot 5,665 Posted February 22 Very neat result with this oldie And the way you have reinstated the spine panel lines with the overlap effect is very convincing. Well done here and overall ! Hubert Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shawn M 7,676 Posted February 23 this was my first LSP as a kid, great job! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big Texan 1,354 Posted February 23 Looks fantastic! That foil tape, did you just overlap to form panel lines? Nifty idea! What tape did you use and where did ya get it? 1 Gigant reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
