WildKitty egg plane

**MichaelS** · #1 11-26-2018, 05:28 PM

Not sure of the scale but it is smallish. Started this "egg plane" WildKitty today.

Goog album here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/JNFpgSPFtheDYAKS7

**Butelczynski** · #2 11-26-2018, 06:21 PM

Some Japanese publication?Looks strange.

**ennder** · #3 11-27-2018, 12:46 PM

that looks like a super deformed (SD) F6F Hellcat.

EDIT: my bad its a f4f Wildcat... I found it at
https://papermau.blogspot.com/2018/1...aft-paper.html

**Rata** · #4 11-27-2018, 03:37 PM

I think this little Wildcat has misspent too much time 'out on the tiles' and is now 'in the family way'.

**tigertony100** · #5 11-27-2018, 08:17 PM

I think that this kind of modelling is called "CHIVI", I´m not quiet sure.Tony.

**cfuruti** · #6 11-27-2018, 08:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tigertony100

I think that this kind of modelling is called "CHIVI", I´m not quiet sure.Tony.

Both "super deformed" and "chibi" - the correct romaji spelling, meaning "small" or "short" (usually applied to living beings) and pronounced cheebee - are terms from the Japanese culture (mainly anime and manga) and refer to versions of characters drawn with exaggeratedly large heads and tiny bodies and limbs, resembling the cute proportions of babies or small children. Applied to the antropomorphized objects and vehicles so common in Japan, the exaggeration is translated to the parts more easily associated with heads and limbs: for planes, big cockpits and short wings; for cars, large windshields or headlights, and so on.