Grumman XF5F-1 Skyrocket

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You nailed that last photo! Indeed! Short nose!
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That yellow is lovely and it looks dead on to me based on the pic. It’s a good feeling when that happens, isn’t it?
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Neato! I did this one and the long-nose a couple of years ago. Hope your cowlings fit better than mine did. .
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Lyle... can you move this entire thread to the Yellow Wings Group Build thread? This is my choice for this Group Build. Thanks.
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The yellow paint does look great. Of course it does, it's unobtainium! Nice finish.

And thanks to Bruce for the photos.

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BlackSheep214 wrote:Lyle... can you move this entire thread to the Yellow Wings Group Build thread? This is my choice for this Group Build. Thanks.
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These past couple weeks I’ve been making progress a little at a time. Will post pics soon when I have a chance.
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Just re-read the thread back to page one, great work on that Yellow. It's interesting to see this next to John's long nosed version.
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As promised, here are the progress pics thus far...

Interior calls for either Green Chromate or Aluminum. So I decided to do both colors - first with Interior Green then brush it over with Non-Buffing Aluminum Metalizer paint.

Wheel well of engine cowl, gear doors and cockpit area. I did the same with the seat, stick and floor on wings (not shown)

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Aluminum paint on undersides of wing and gear doors

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Right and left engine cowls units.

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Fuselage, tail assembly (Early version tail rudders), Nose piece glued on - I chose unarmed version). Gap is filled in as shown. Further work on the engine cowls before paint and fuselage will be painted very soon. I'm taking a chance in assembling the engine cowls complete and one piece with landing gears installed prior to paint. This way I can glue them as complete on the wing instead of in separate steps.

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Right and left radial engines assembled.

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A close up shot of radial engine. I painted it Aluminum as well as gearbox, washed using Tamiya Panel Accent Wash (this stuff is great since I couldn't find Flory Wash.) Rust lightly brushed on front ring - not sure what it's called.

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That is looking great!
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