F-6F Hellcat
1August 5, 2016ok, let´s get started!
2August 5, 2016priming the parts with AK interactive black primer with couple drops of thinner
3August 5, 2016for this model I used the recomended interior green from Mr Hobby aqueous, as it seem to match perfecly with the eduard pre-painted photoetch.
4August 5, 2016test fitting and some putty in the cowling just to be 100% sure of the joint smoothness, doesn´t seem that I'm going to have any problem, here is possible to see the Cyberhobby one, I was testing the pavla resin cawling
5August 5, 2016the back view of the eduard front cowling show simplicity, but when looked from the front it doesn´t have the caracteristic "collar" ring going around the engine, it is interrupted.
6August 5, 2016to fix the area around the engine and to make things easier for the copy process, I filled the areas with milliputty and sanded down everything afterwards
7August 5, 2016I will copy that to use in the other plane too, so here I prepered one plastic card "box" to contain the sylicon and I glued one simple base to the pice
8August 5, 2016that´s it ready to be covered in silicon
9August 5, 2016and here the 2 part silicon goes over everything
10August 5, 2016after braking the box and removing the part, here is what the mold looks like
11August 5, 2016and here is the casting result, I am very happy with that! , just a clean copy with the shape correct, no bubles, lot´s of fun! I' so exited! will be using this tecnic much more from now!
12August 5, 2016after the clean up the result is flawless! I can imagine already me copping super detailed bombs and ejector seats to use in other double or triple projects... definitely enjoying it!
13August 5, 2016here goes the twins! I will be adding the project to the Cyber hobby here soon
14August 5, 2016next step: weather the cockpit and paint the engine! props in the Eduard have way better shape, but the Cyber Hobby is OK
15August 5, 2016Assenbling the bombs from the Eduard kit, this fins ORIGAMI style are realy a test for the patience, but I realy love tiny things! ^_^
16August 29, 2016The interior after the wash and drybrush, ready to put together Man! I really love this painted photoech! but be warned! in the instructions Eduard misplaced some of the numbers so, look carefully the shape and check references to get the right piece!
17August 29, 2016side-by-side, the CH ones is already with the front of the cowling copyed from Eduard, the propeller from the Eduard´s is more twisted as we can see but in the other hand, one positive point of the CH: you can make the cooling doors in the open position!
18August 29, 2016
19August 29, 2016
20October 13, 2016Ok, after one brake to make the Mitsubishi KA 14, back to the Hellcats, here I took my last chance to frame the cockpit in detail before close the fuselage.
21October 13, 2016The harnesses look much better in this one, better than the CH and also better than the "super fabric" also from eduard that I just used in the Mitsubishi KA 14!
22October 13, 2016close up with mignifying glasses in the details for the instrument pannel: I love the levers! I cutted the gunsight and painted the silver, I´ll be using one acetate to replicate the reflective gun sight on top of that
23October 13, 2016here with my hand we can have one idea of the sise of it.
24October 13, 2016ok, more shot and next step: close it forever... the various buttons were picked up by using toothpick sharpened a little more
25October 13, 2016engines: I used alclad gloss black as a base coat and Mr. paint Titanium over that, to wash it I used Vallejo acrylic wash, I found that using enamel washes I simply clean all the way to the plastic again so that´s why I went to the acrylilc wash
26October 13, 2016here I´ll alpply this photoetch to the engine of Eduard´s model, huge small task!!
27October 13, 2016gluing the Frame in the back of the cowing with PVA glue and primed black
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20 February 2025, 02:09 -
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Another "twin project"
This one I'll be using the decals from the Cyber hobbie to make it 3 ton camo and that one will have the wings folded and the overall dark blue using the decals from this kit, I'll be using some parts from one into another making copy from the good bits to place in the other one, let´s see how it turn out!
