Hello to all and Happy belated Bastille Day for my French friends out there!
This is the Hobbycraft F8F "French Bearcat" boxing in 1/48 scale. I spruced it up with a beautifully rendered engine from Quickboost and aside from a minor disaster when my oil "wash" ate through my "paint" this was a pretty straightforward and enjoyable build.
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The paint is
good ole' Model Master Sea Blue and the
exhaust stains were added with Tamiya weathering powders. I used the
kit decals to represent a French Bearcat serving in Indo-China during the
"unpleasantries" (tongue in cheek,CHECK!). I must admit I
wasn't too impressed with the kit decals but they settled in nicely with a
bit of solvent especially the roundels on the lower wing surfaces that had
to snuggle around some detail.
I added some paint chipping and soot
along the leading edges and wing roots using a silver marker pen which was toned
down with more weathering powder and, as we say, Voila!
Anton Alerte, MD
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