Hellcat Skinning Project
Grim Reaper (VF10)
Art Flores & Clyde WILZ
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Hellcat20 Project: References |
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This page show
various wartime archive pictures, airshow and museum photographs.
Plastic model and RC aircraft also provided reference material for my Hellcat20
skinning project. Photos show the Hellcat was painted in all
shades of blue: blue black, dark blue, medium blue, sky blue,
light blue, gray blue, etc. Some photos show a bright and shiny
gloss and others show varying degrees of weathering and combat wear and
tear. Some photos show different colors due to the nature of the light
in which they were photographed (see 2 photos of Hellcat number 19
below). Exhaust smoke is different in every plane. Some RC models
are more realistic looking than the actual planes and only the 2-bladed
prop gives them away!
One special
note to the PDC and the person who modeled the F6F5:
consider changing the angle of the forward antenna. In my opinion, the angle is too much forward. It should be a bit more towards 90°. See the reference drawings at this web page: http://perso.orange.fr/christophe.arribat/profil/f6f/f6f.html Sone images shows such a forward sweeping angle, like plane #11 shown below, but most do not. Copyright ownership of the photos on this reference page belongs to the original owners as I obtained these pictures from internet searches. This page is not for public consumption. It is not intended to provide indiscriminate display of photos taken from other websites. Photos were not knowingly taken from sites that prohibited their download. |
 The first photo shows a skin from another simulation game and I spent a lot of time studying it. |
 Obviously from a painting
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More Hellcat Photos A - B - C - D - E - F |
