A set of markings for the Wildcat VI in British naval service, scale 1:72. Five schemes of the years 1944 and 1945 cover machines from three escort carriers and one training example.
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The squat fighter with a barrel-shaped fuselage served from the first months of the war and, for all its apparent obsolescence, lasted in the front line to the end. The designation Wildcat VI belonged in the Fleet Air Arm to examples from the manufacture of a second supplier, which lightened the airframe and fitted a single-row radial engine instead of the two-row one used until then. At the same time the vertical tail grew, so that the machine would handle the stronger torque. The purpose was clear: to get a usable fighter onto small escort ships with a short deck.
The set is interesting in that besides combat examples from convoy escorts it also holds a machine of a unit based in Northern Ireland, that is from training service. British naval markings also differ from the American ones not only in the roundel but in the way the code of a ship is written on the fuselage. Anyone building a naval subject will appreciate that five finishes mean five different combinations of letters and numerals.
Lay the film onto a surface that is really dry under the finger, not merely cool to the touch. Moisture trapped under the clear coat shows up only after weeks as a matte blotch. The model is not part of the package.
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