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Airfix A19004 Grumman F6-F5 Hellcat

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Following its introduction during the summer of 1940, the A6M Zero proved to be one of the most capable fighter aircraft in the world at that time, possessing speed, firepower and range, all vital attributes for an aircraft which would need to operate over vast expanses of ocean, Without doubt, its most impressive feature was the Zero’s unrivalled combat manoeuvrability, with its lightweight design making this arguably the most proficient dogfighter of the war. The small auxiliary gear doors have tabs that don’t fit behind the gear leg, so I removed the locator and glued the door to the lower wing surface.

The whole cockpit assembly went into the port half of the fuselage as sweet as a nut, then came the other side! Going back to the engine image selection we have included, the second and third images give a clear indication of the detail levels incorporated into the design of this scale engine, with the third image providing a fascinating visual representation of how the individual components go to make up the engine assembly. This is a fantastic opportunity to take your own little piece of Airfix history and we would like to thank the Airfix team for allowing us the opportunity to offer this unique prize. I find I have a lot of time on my hands just now as we/I am house-bound due to the current situation. Maintaining their impressive criteria for naval aircraft design, what the Grumman engineers managed to produce was an aircraft which was ideally suited to the rigours of combat from the decks of aircraft carriers and operations over large expanses of ocean.Despite a combat introduction which took place relatively late in the war, the Hellcat would go on to be referred to as the ‘mount of aces’ as it wrestled superiority of the skies above the Pacific from the Japanese Zero during a frenetic two years of fighting.

According to the paint instructions the sliding part of the canopy is a single colour slate grey and doesn't follow the airframe camouflage. All the detail applied to each individual part is applied in layers, gradually building up until the designer is happy with the accuracy of the part, knowing that this will all have to be incorporated in the model tooling block itself and subjected to the injection moulding manufacturing process. Historic photographs exist of this aircraft having just landed on USS Essex, with its burning home carrier Princeton visible in the background.He was fortunate enough to be granted access to original manufacturing drawings, as well as arranging to scan a suitable aircraft, which is part of the Flying Heritage Collection in Seattle.

Using the LIDAR scan data as a hollow outline, the designer, Chris, needed to create a 3D CAD version of the information, which served as a base model shell, from which all the individual components of the kit can be produced and allowing every aspect of their design to be assessed and perfected. The fuselage haves were glued together trapping the finished cockpit, bulkheads, radio racks, workable tail arrestor hook, and tail wheel. This picture also gave me the colour of the little black box on the upper right and the fact that there's an electrical wire dropping out of it. With recent 1/24th scale projects such as the de Havilland Mosquito and Hawker Typhoon raising the modelling bar in terms of detail and accuracy, the team were once again looking to present modellers with a stunning kit featuring one of the world’s most famous aircraft, but which one should they do?But it goes on very well and then we can go with getting the open gun bay flap doors sorted and weathered. It will save you lots of head scratching and paging back and forward - the instructions themselves are well presented and can make for good bedtime reading. I had trouble with the fit of the oil tank because it interfered with the firewall when using the tabs on the rear support frame; I cut them off and reinstalled the tank assembly after the engine was fully mounted.

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