INTERMEDIATE BUILD
Mike Williams is thrilled to examine Eduard’s newly tooled 1/48 Grumman F4F Wildcat in its initial ProfiPACK Edition, adding the firm’s Brassin extras for added detail.
As was often the case with early-war fighter aircraft, the Grumman F4F Wildcat was initially conceived as a biplane before the rapid pace of monoplane development forced the manufacturer’s hand into a single-winged redesign.
In this case, the Wildcat followed Grumman’s lineage of FF-series biplane fighters but was set to feature worse performance than rival firm Brewster’s F2A Buffalo – even once moved to a monoplane layout. Further work to the flight surfaces and the addition of a Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp engine resulted in the XF4F-3, which was superior to the Buffalo and was ordered into series production. The type proved vital to the US Navy and the British Fleet Air Arm, being developed further into various sub-types then the F6F Hellcat and F8F Bearcat – quite the lineage of Grumman carrier-borne fighters.
Click here to read Airfix Model World's initial review of Eduard's new quarter-scale Wildcat kit.
Given Eduard’s previously successful approach to 1/48 scale …
