Thanks Bruce, sometimes waiting to do something gives me time to find out something new to make this even better.
Here's a short update on where I am now with this.
I had finally shot paint on the F-6F Hellcat overall. I had shot the whole thing in dark navy blue.
Fuselage:
Wings:
Afterward as you can see, I added the night fighting radar to the one wing since I'd forgotten to do it before painting.
Cowl and drop tank:
Cowl needs touchup, that'll happen...
Next, I decided to attempt to glue in those parts B-7 through -10 that I couldn't figure out before. A pretty good idea struck me as to how I could get them to glue properly. After gluing the two parts together, I took the retracted landing gear parts and snapped them into place. Then I carefully glued the parts B-7 through -10 in place; lining them up with the 'retracted' landing gear:
Later, when I snapped off the retracted gear parts, the two sections stayed in place where they are supposed to go:
Here's another shot of the wing that got the radar pod:
After getting more information about the interior section of the wing fold being dark blue like the rest of the plane; (thanks again guys!) I shot a new coat of blue on the bare sections, as well as touched up other places. Here's the cowl:
Here's the wings:
As you can see, whoever mentioned the long gun barrels being prone to breakage cursed me! Bruce, go ahead and order that metal gun set for this. I'll have to snip off the metal cannons to replace these plastic ones as I cannot replicate those in plastic
The wheels, struts and landing gear doors were next:
And finally, the fuselage top and bottom:
Some of that paint got a little dull so I'll have to go over it again. Then hopefully I'll be able to apply the decals.
That's all I have for this weekend. Once my battery finishes charging, I'll be able to post more progress this coming week. Until then, thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.
