Hobby Boss 1/48 F8F-2 Bearcat COMPLETE

[keavdog]

Well... kinda saying it's an F8F-1B. Great kit overall. Could use some 3d cockpit decals though and the glass is pretty thick. OOB except for the super scale decals which worked pretty well - VF-17 (original Jolly Rogers) 1946







With her fellow Grumman "cats"

[LyleW]

Good looking aircraft!

[Gary Brantley]

Man, that looks great, John! Your paint scheme is like the only real Bearcat I've seen; the late Howard Pardue's bird at a Waco airshow back in the '80s. Well done indeed, sir!

[Stikpusher]

Very nice looking F8F John!
Now you need the Grumman twins, F5F & F7F to round out your Iron Works Piston Engined Fighters collection Oh yeah, maybe an F3F too…

[keavdog]

Thanks for the kind words.

Stik - I was looking at my AMT Tigercat last night. I was going to do a fire bomber conversion on it, but it is such a good looking plane as is I'm going to do a Marine bird. This may be next on the bench

The F5F never went into production and in my opinion is one funky looking airplane.
I've looked at the Accurate Miniatures 1/48 F3F several times, but my fear of bi-planes takes over

[tempestjohnny]

Nice collection of 'Cats there. The AMT Tigercat is a nice kit.

[BlackSheep214]

Nice looking Bearcat.

[keavdog]

Thanks. I've read the Tigercat is a tail sitter despite guys loading the thing with weight. I figure I'll just go with the barrels, maybe do a base. I also hear the decals are crappy which has me a bit worried.

[tempestjohnny]

Very much so. That's what I did. I don't think the landing gear could handle the amount of weight needed to keep the nose down.

[Gary Brantley]

Over 75 grams of ballast weight and she still wouldn't keep her nose wheel grounded!

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