Grumman F6F-11 HeavenCat (finished page 3)

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Maybe the propeller position will be less crazy than imagined at first:

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Seldom if ever did I use the seat part in a kit but today this is good to support a new nose:

(I use these words remembering Mickey Newbury singing "seldom if ever does she cross my mind", maybe in the so beautiful song "I don't think much about her no more", one of my very favorite during my sad years...)

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Ready for sanding:

(remember? this was a Hellcat...)

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First sanding, then putty again:

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Thanks a lot!
Now I am satisfied with the new sanding, I may go on:

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I have glued the wings on. Now I am ordering paint again as this will be finished soon.

[ericr]

 

[strobez]

Now this is neat.  It makes me want to revisit a project I sketched out a while back for a couple of fictional planes.  Watching this baby come together will be a joy.

[Tophe]

Thanks!

I made a mistake and that changed the layout project:
- gluing the starboard boom, I used the position as it was on the table, forgetting that the tailplane was planned to be an asymmetric big fin (vertical not horizontal);
- I decided not to remove it and let it this way;
- then I glued the port boom and to restore quite a big asymmetry I decided to put on it a tank/"engine" then the propeller as tractor.
So the building seems finished, and the paint is ordered. Completion soon.

Ahem: maybe there is no clearance enough for the propeller above the boom, but this is "logical": what if this was the reason why it was never flown (scale 1)

[PR19_Kit]

Make the prop a pusher, then you don't have any clearance problems. 

[Tophe]

You are very right from a Realist point of view
but I prefer the fantasy What-if point of view...

[kerick]

Or shave a little from the tips of the propeller. But, as you say, that would be realistic. Its your project, build it your way my friend!

[Tophe]

Yes  , thanks, this is the explanation: (I have built the static-display version, at 1/72 scale)

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Waiting for the new paint order to arrive, I have checked if there are still a few drops of paint remaining in the old pot.
And there was a little, for about 75% of what has to be painted, not enough for all but already covering the putty/plastic limit:

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Yesterday afternoon I received the new paint, and this is better now:

Don't you recognize the Hellcat silhouette anymore? I don't know why...