I thought it was just a Wildcat, but these aircraft were restored by enthusiasts after the war and are flying around in various air shows. I wonder if they call such an aircraft a ghost fighter? I don’t understand well, but anyway, it looks like Wildcat.
The runner included two types of white and blue molded colors.
I haven’t decided which coloring to choose yet.
Is it a Sweet mascot character besides the aircraft? There were figures of the black cat Lucky.
The number of parts is small; each size is tiny, so I need to handle it carefully so as not to break it. Masking the canopy is ongoing work.
The basic painting is in progress. I can no longer change the plan at this stage.
(06-April-2018)
Ghost Fighter FM – 2 has been completed. Since it is two sets, I tried a colorful one and another as orthodox coloring.
There are the F4F series produced by Grumman Corporation and the FM series produced by General Motors Corporation for Wildcat. This FM-2 type was produced in around 4,000 aircraft. Approximately 7,400 aircraft were produced by the end of the war.
The marking is FM-2, Confederate Air Force, covered F4F-3, VF-41, CV-4 USS Ranger, Spring 1941.
This Wildcat, Yellow is Mr. Color #329 Yellow FS 13538, and Light gray is #315 Gray FS 16440; there is not matched the color of Tail Wing’s Willow Green, but actually, it is surprisingly Russian Green #135 was correct for this Willow Green, I suppose.
This is a bonus part; the choke (wheel stopper) is attached. I painted the parts yellow.
On the underside of the fuselage, IFF red, green, and yellow lights were attached to the center, and it was finely painted.
A black cat mascot character named Lucky has extra parts. It is pretty cute.
This coloring is FM-2, Confederate Air Force, covered FM-2, VOC-1, the 50th VJ Day Memorial Flight over Pearl Harbor take off from CVN-70 USS Carl Vinson, September 1995.
There are various kinds of blue of the US Navy in WWII, and this time it seems a bit too dense if I thought FS15042 gloss sea blue was good. I had planned to use Creo’s US Navy aircraft standard paint color set. Sea Blue of FS15040 seems to be good. But this color is sold nowhere. Ultimately, I painted Gloss Sea Blue of FS15042 in the set and mixed it with Mr. Color #65 Indy Blue.
Since there is no change if it is only blue, I tried putting a white in panel lines for accent. I wonder if this process increases information and looks good.
I stretched the wire antenna cable on both two planes.
There is a sense of precision even at the tiny scale of 1/144 because it has a good quality Cartograf decal.
The SWEET airplane kits always make me feel good. It is about 6 cm in length and 8 cm in total width, which is about the size of a palm, but it is realistic with microscopic molds. I have to be careful not to break the thin landing gears. I think it’s so wonderful that some Sweet models look more realistic than 1/72 scales.
(10-April-2018)
