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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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F8F wip shots

Glad there will be 1 in the pack with the bare metal exhaust plate Dan, even if that wasnt very common... there's usually an exception to prove the rule and it looks good.

KR Matt
 
The 203 number would be common on all carriers. We had two F8-F squadrons. marked 101 and 201 etc. The F6-F squadron was marked 10 and on up.
The tail letter would keep them sorted apart. You would then get a C203 and a L203.
Did I make this clear?
 
another scheme for you guy when it's released.....

ficticious.jpg


Bruce
 
wOW Bruce - if you keep going there wont be any point in a paint kit LOL :ernae:
 
LOl yeah surely time for release is it not? Hey Gajit mate we need some fictional FAA paints mate, thats one Idea at least even if we were using Jets by then!
 
gajit said:
wOW Bruce - if you keep going there wont be any point in a paint kit LOL :ernae:
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The scheme above is purely fictional, with something like 253 F8F's built there's plenty more to paint, and Peter after doing 25 years in the FAA thats the last thing I need. :salute:

Bruce
 
You know what for some absurd reason I forgot that you are English Bruce, well that said you've got to do at least one for the team mate! :salute: haha
 
The Real Thing

BTW, if any of ya'll are in the Seattle Area, at the Flying Heritage collection this weekend they'll be flying a real-life F8F, as well as an F7F Tigercat and the P-47. Noon in Everett.

(It's "radial day." Don't know why they didn't make it "cat day" and fly the Hellcat instead -- I've never seen one of those in the air.)
 
Helldiver said:
The 203 number would be common on all carriers. We had two F8-F squadrons. marked 101 and 201 etc. The F6-F squadron was marked 10 and on up.
The tail letter would keep them sorted apart. You would then get a C203 and a L203.
Did I make this clear?
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So Helldiver would that be fairly typical Bearcat era carrier complement of aircraft? Bearcats and Hellcats or did they overlap with later aircraft like the Skyraiders, Panthers. Really dont know much about their history so am curious.
 
DennyA said:
BTW, if any of ya'll are in the Seattle Area, at the Flying Heritage collection this weekend they'll be flying a real-life F8F, as well as an F7F Tigercat and the P-47. Noon in Everett.

(It's "radial day." Don't know why they didn't make it "cat day" and fly the Hellcat instead -- I've never seen one of those in the air.)
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Denny, the Hellcat that you mention, owned by the Flying Heritage Collection, hasn't flown in years, thus it isn't currently airworthy. FHC will be putting up their P-47, as you mention, while the Historic Flight Foundation museum will be putting up their F7F and F8F - these of course being "Bad Kitty" and "Wampus Cat".
 
MDIvey - I got out in April of 1948 and we had no Skyraiders or Panthers flying then on the carriers. We had two squadrons of Bearcats and one squadron of Hellcats, that after the cruise that we had just finished, were supposed to get Bearcats.
I never got to see a Skyraider or a Panther.
 
bruce448 said:
Due to peer pressure, I present to you one Grumman Sea Furry


Bruce
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Say Bruce, you know we flew "Furries" in our Navy too ..:salute: but in a fictional world where the Grumman bird was chosen over the Hawker bird (perish the thought!), then ...

any chance you could throw an RCN roundel on there?

Just saying ... :)

Awesome repaints, with the Essex class carriers already awaiting these birds, it'll be an early Christmas, to be sure! Bruce, thanks for keeping us salivating all this time! :)

best,

dl
 
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