The Revell Germany and Matchbox F9F-5 are the same kit and will get you the late model Panther. It's not bad. Hasegawa's kit is a F9F-2, which you already have. Monogram did a 1/72 F8F-2 Bearcat. It's old but not too bad for 1/72. I would toss the Hobby Boss Hellcat and get Eduard or Academy if you can find them.
Thanks for the info Chris. I will keep an eye out for the Eduard &/or Academy Hellcats. Have got Model Expo 2023 coming up in a few months and will see whether I can find any of my "missing" kits at the Swap & Sell. Thanks for watching!
My project is to have 1 aircraft each of every carrier air wing operating off Essex class carriers in the Vietname war. The modified 27C versions are just my favorite carriers. The Sundowners feature on a lot of them as they basically served on every 27 Charlie except Hancock and Bon Homme Richard. Because decals are hard to come by for many of the squadrons involved I've taken to using Photoshop to make my own. I now have decals for the squadrons of airwings 10 off Intrepid, 1967, which had a Sundowners detachment on it, airwing 16 from Ticonderoga 1969, Sundowners present, airwing 16 from Oriskany 1966-67, Sundowners present and airwing 8, Shangri La 1970, the final deployment of the Sundowners with the F8 Crusader. Also made decals for airwing 21 Hancock 1975, airwing 5 Bon Homme Richard 1970 and airwing 19 Oriskany 1976. I print them via laserjet printer at work on A4 decal sheets. The only downside is that you cannot print the color white. If you want some, let me know.
Wow - big project. How many aircraft would that be in total? Would love to see what you have for the Sundowners decals - I have been thinking about creating my own using Photoshop &/or Inkscape and printing them myself where I can't find kit/aftermarket decals. Also probably have to do the same for my USS Carl Vinson project (CVW-15, '86/87 Westpac/Indian Ocean cruise).
Good idea to build a historical series of the aircraft of a squadron. In fact monumental task. I don't build very many navy birds except out of WW2, however I don't recall the T-38 variants on your list to my knowledge they weren't active duty, maybe Topgun School. The Tiger was built for Vietnam Air Force. Their airframe would have been a disaster for carrier landings. However you've got the history book. Good luck on the project Up here in the colonies eBay has never let me down.
VF-111 was disestablished in Feb 1995 and Carrier Reserve Air Wing 20 Key West Adversary Detachment picked up the Sundowners designation (renamed as Fighter Squadron Composite VFC-111) in Nov 2006. They use the two F-5 models in a land based Adversary role.
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The Revell Germany and Matchbox F9F-5 are the same kit and will get you the late model Panther. It's not bad. Hasegawa's kit is a F9F-2, which you already have. Monogram did a 1/72 F8F-2 Bearcat. It's old but not too bad for 1/72. I would toss the Hobby Boss Hellcat and get Eduard or Academy if you can find them.
Thanks for the info Chris.
I will keep an eye out for the Eduard &/or Academy Hellcats.
Have got Model Expo 2023 coming up in a few months and will see whether I can find any of my "missing" kits at the Swap & Sell.
Thanks for watching!
My project is to have 1 aircraft each of every carrier air wing operating off Essex class carriers in the Vietname war. The modified 27C versions are just my favorite carriers. The Sundowners feature on a lot of them as they basically served on every 27 Charlie except Hancock and Bon Homme Richard. Because decals are hard to come by for many of the squadrons involved I've taken to using Photoshop to make my own. I now have decals for the squadrons of airwings 10 off Intrepid, 1967, which had a Sundowners detachment on it, airwing 16 from Ticonderoga 1969, Sundowners present, airwing 16 from Oriskany 1966-67, Sundowners present and airwing 8, Shangri La 1970, the final deployment of the Sundowners with the F8 Crusader. Also made decals for airwing 21 Hancock 1975, airwing 5 Bon Homme Richard 1970 and airwing 19 Oriskany 1976. I print them via laserjet printer at work on A4 decal sheets. The only downside is that you cannot print the color white. If you want some, let me know.
Wow - big project. How many aircraft would that be in total? Would love to see what you have for the Sundowners decals - I have been thinking about creating my own using Photoshop &/or Inkscape and printing them myself where I can't find kit/aftermarket decals. Also probably have to do the same for my USS Carl Vinson project (CVW-15, '86/87 Westpac/Indian Ocean cruise).
Looking forward to this project Bat
Thanks Hibbo, I've got a few stalled builds to clear off the bench first but hope to get started on it soon
Good idea to build a historical series of the aircraft of a squadron. In fact monumental task. I don't build very many navy birds except out of WW2, however I don't recall the T-38 variants on your list to my knowledge they weren't active duty, maybe Topgun School. The Tiger was built for Vietnam Air Force. Their airframe would have been a disaster for carrier landings. However you've got the history book. Good luck on the project Up here in the colonies eBay has never let me down.
VF-111 was disestablished in Feb 1995 and Carrier Reserve Air Wing 20 Key West Adversary Detachment picked up the Sundowners designation (renamed as Fighter Squadron Composite VFC-111) in Nov 2006.
They use the two F-5 models in a land based Adversary role.
😮This is going to be a great project. Hopefully not to far away. 😊
Still got to clear a few stalled builds off the bench but hope to get started on it soon.
Just not sure what order to build them!!