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This
beautiful little kit was sent to me by John Kelver, whom I met over the
internet, and I was certainly surprised to receive this gift last Christmas.
The model went together without difficulty, although I did mess it up by
using a light grey paint on the fuselage...so much for using a restored
aircraft as a reference!. |
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Rich Dann
was kind enough to give me some information on the aircraft and it was after
talking to him that I learned of his "In Action" book on the Grumman
Bi-plane fighters. |
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The prop
markings are decals, starting with the 6 mm yellow, 2 mm blue and red
stripes from Microscale. I've found that using decals on the prop tips
give a far better finish. I apply the decals and when dry use a piece
of 400 wet and dry sand paper to remove the excess. Just stroke the
edge of the prop blade in a downward motion and the results can be seen
here. |
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The rigging
and wing walk were not applied in this close-up but you can see how the
decals went on over the Polly Scale Clear Gloss finish. |
