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Great progress, Michael!
I must second Don's thoughts. That Wildcat with Felix submerged 2 miles down looks just amazing!!! I would not expect to see that in a million years. Cool beans and now your project is even more important!!! Dan |
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Really nice build this far!
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And not only Wildcats, but I found a still online of a TBD DEVASTATOR, wings folded, tilted-back canopy, and its paint and markings looking like it sank a month ago, instead of 76-odd years ago.
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I have always been an aviation history buff but this week with the discovery by Paul Allen & Co. of the USS Lexington really brought it home to me. To be actually building a replica of the plane that Jimmy Thach actually flew at the Battle of the Coral Sea and then to see a picture of one of the planes from his squadron so well preserved was really thrilling.
This is my completion of the S&P / Gerry's Models Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat in 1:100. This was a very important aircraft for the US in the early part of WW2 as it was about the only plane that could stand up to the Japanese fighters. For a great read find "The First Team" and immerse yourself in what it was like to be a USN Aviator ( they are not called pilots - pilots guide ships in and out of harbor) for the first six months of WW2. Leroy Grumman and his workers did a great job in turning out such a great little airplane. It would be followed by many great aircraft including the F-14 Tomcat. It is a little known fact that Grumman's team did much of the design and construction on the lunar module which landed on the moon in 1969.
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Good work on this model, Michael. I like all your dioramas, too.
Let me second your recommendation of John B. Lundstrom's The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2005), and anything else by John Lundstrom. My two favorite Grumman-specific books are Richard Thruelsen, The Grumman Story (New York: Praeger, 1976), and René J. Francillon, Grumman Aircraft since 1929 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989, originally published by Putnam Aeronautical Books, 1989). I'm looking forward to your future builds and hope many of them are on this theme. Don |
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nice work on the models.
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Fine build of a cute little airplane....
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Yep. I have "The First Team at Guadalcanal" as well. Barret Tillman does some great aircraft history books as well. Thanks for your compliments. Iam finding one of the hardest parts of this new hobby is deciding what to build next!! '
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Great job Michael on the Wildcat. I enjoyed the diorama and accompanying commentary as well.
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In the series "from the earth to the moon", there is one episode named "Spider" on the construction of the first LEM from first concept to delivery. If you consider that this LEM never saw the moon and served only in earth orbit for testing by McDivitt IIRC, it was a major effort for a "not so major" glory.
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