Supersize 1/24 Airfix Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat Build & Review! Cockpit Construction - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Designed to replace the earlier Wildcat design, the Grumman F6F Hellcat was a single-seat carrier fighter aircraft that would see service with a variety of Allied nations during the Second World War.
Known as the Hellcat Mk.II in Fleet Air Arm service, the Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat would be used by the Royal Navy in many different theatres that would require the use of carrier aircraft.
Join me on the workbench in this first episode of this 6 part series where I construct the cockpit and internal areas of the fuselage of the supersize Airfix (A19004) 2019 tooling 1/24 scale plastic model kit of the Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat.
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An absolutely fantastic start to the build there matt!
Thanks very much! Hopefully I will get a chance to look at some other large scale kits
Loved the "Brooklyn 9-9" quote in the blooper section. 👍
Really enjoy your channel. I like the way you go thru and cover all the relevant topics on each kit and show the process. I’m just getting back into modeling and sometimes get frustrated at my lack of progress yet each new project keeps getting better and better with the help of your explanations and suggestions. You also seem to take into consideration all of us are not on the same level.
Keep up the great builds and thanks for the knowledge 👍
Awesome, thank you!
Good start to building this cracking kit.
Like the way you take the time to fully explain what exactly you are doing and why.
I agree with you, it seems such a shame to hide away the lovely interior detailing when you close the fuselage half's. Speaking of which; some of the gaps where the fuselage half's join are a tad on the large size; but the 2019 tooling mitigates that.
Looking forward to the next episode.
Thanks!
I've been a subscriber since 2019, and I've seen your skills develop along mine, and I seeing you doing 1/24 , with it being one of the greatest achievements in one's modelling career, I have mine in the stash, I just need the time, I remember in the first lockdown you were one of my best modelling companions on my PC while I was mastering the 1:48 scale aircraft from Airfix... Great job Matt!
Awesome! Thank you! I think I set up the funding goal for this kit in 2019 but it wasn't until 2022 that I was able to get it, and now I have finally finished it!
Love the outtakes 😂🤣 great addition to the video 👍🏴🇬🇧🙏♥️
Thanks 🙏
It looks so good, well done. It's a sign of the times that we spend so much time on parts that never see the light of day after it's all closed up... Is this a sign of madness or just us being perfectionist??
I think sometimes I build all the parts if I’m not sure what might or might not be visible at the end
Gorgeous detail! I agree that you have to do a LOT of dry fitting before committing to glue. It is a shame that this kit has become almost impossible to find nowdays. Keep up the great work, I will be following!
Thank you so much!
Ah my favoutie scale - MASSIVE!!!
Biggest project I have done so far!
@@ModelMinutes They look amazing when they're done though and displayed!! Looking forward to the rest of this build series 👌
The details are really nice. I like your honest reviews and how you overcome any shortcomings of a kit's manufacturing. Have a great weekend.
Thanks, you too!
What a wonderful plane, thank you very much
Glad you like it!
Definitely going to follow this project. It looks great so far!
Hope you enjoy it!
@@ModelMinutes I have the 1/32 scale Hasegawa of the Hellcat, I have already noticed a few things I am going to try out whenever I work my way to it haha
I really love the unstresssed aluminum
I'm SO hyped to see this whole series! ❤
Coming soon!
Very nice! Thanks for sharing. Very inspiring and informative.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice. Looking forward to this series.
The Hellcat came out just after I started back in the hobby so I didn't get one. After doing the recent 1/24 Spitfire would like to do this and hope that they rerelease it as some point.
Yes, After about 5 years it is probably time they looked at a re-release with new paint schemes
Looking good Matt! That's a kit I wish I'd picked up. Looking forward to the next videos.
Thanks! Yes, I think I remember seeing them in Hobbycraft at a reduced price some years ago (or maybe it was the Typhoon) and recall not being able to afford it at the time, but wish I had got it then as second hand prices are somewhat insane
@@ModelMinutes yeah crazy prices now mate.
Looks like something I might try in the new year, coming on nicely mate 👍
I hope you can find one of these for a sensible price, the secondhand market seems to be the only place where people have them and they are not cheap . . .
@@ModelMinutes oh ok thanks for the heads up
Very nicely done !
It's a shame about the fit, I heard about warping on these
Thanks very much!
Yes, it put up a bit of a fight
looking great hope you have some space for it ,it must be pretty big
Yeah, its wingspan is the length of my arm!
Looking really nice! Look forward to the next five videos :)
Thanks! I need to do some more work on these videos before they are ready, but hopefully the whole series should be released in the next couple of months!
Good morning Matt, for a small aircraft, this kit has a LOT of parts, the kit box looks bigger than my modelling desk, you have made great progress so far, but as for gluing the pieces in the wrong way, ' read twice put in place once'😃 looking forward to the next update soon, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia, Les
Lol yes, I do try and read the instructions but it can be easy to make mistakes, especially with a project as big as this... Start as you mean to go on I suppose
Hi Matt, great start to the build. Like you, I've heard of fit issues with some of the bulkheads need to be sanded as tolerances are very tight, that even a few microns of paint can cause the fuselage not to close up. I look forward to seeing the next part of the build.
Yeah the tolerances will put up a challenge during this build
Absolutely great to see you building a Hellcat. Most successful fighter in WWII, but try convincing a Brit. Well done. I am sure the finished product will be brilliant.
Wouldn’t say most successful overall,but Definetly of the pacific theatre
Thanks very much!
Spitfire.
According to what I’ve read about carrier history and WW2, The British bought 5000 of them on lease lend. So I don’t think we felt they were inadequate, just not a Spitfire 🤣🙏🏴🇬🇧
@@polygonalmasonary I think the FAA only received about 1200 planes. 5000 sounds a lot.
Don't send a Hellcat to do a Spitfire's job😘
Dear Mr Minute,
With regard to your point about fits, a 1mm shaft will never fit to a 1mm hole and the concept of “limits and fits” will take precedence. That being said, I suspect that the moulding limitations of polystyrene may give rise to the problem you encountered.
Notwithstanding this, your presentation of the early stages of your rather large kit was nice- no wonder you have so many subs!!
I have often commented that the larger the scale, the less places there are to hide, so your efforts here are well worth it! It looks like you’re going to have a good finished project there!
Regards,
Z
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I completely agree with those who question why we install parts in a model that we know will not be seen once the model has been completed. Is the idea that, well, at least we know that they’re there? I don’t know what flavour of insanity this may be.
Even with this in mind, like so many of us, I have built models into which I have installed a good deal of beautifully detailed, meticulously painted, and ultimately entirely invisible details, all the while wondering why I bothered to take the time with them.
That said, I'm becoming less and less interested in building "dissected" airplanes with the cowling and various hatches off or open. After all, like many of us, my interest in airplanes has always been largely about their aesthetic beauty; so accordingly, I’ve become more and more interested in building them to appear in their purest form, i.e., as when they are ready to fly or in flight, cowls on, hatches buttoned up, etc.
Anyway, I’ll close now and get back to that gorgeous 1/8th scale Hasegawa Sopwith Camel uncovered airframe I’ve been working on (and off) for the last few years.
So long, and happy holidays.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Daunting task in building a 1/24 aircraft, lots of detail, rather Trumpeter/Hobby Boss reminiscent, I'm sure it'll come out great!
Fingers crossed!
YAY! Clapperboard. Oh...and a great looking kit. Would love to take on one of these 1/24 kits. but really don;t have anywhere suitable to display it afterwards, so I am sticking with the smaller scales. I do get what you mean about the detail work though. All that effort to put stuff in the fuselage...and then you close it all in and it is never seen. It is still nice putting really detailed parts in. Wonder just how good it can get with after market.
I've seen an awful lot of aftermarket extras for this kit, so it would seem that almost everything could be improved in some way
nice model I hope I can do one like it (I have a spare revell 1/24 kit that someone donated to me that is unstarted)
sounds like a fun project!
Wonderful Work My Friend, I stop at 1/32-So FAR 😂 "Detroit"
I think the largest scale I have worked in is 1/12, but they were only star wars droids so weren't too big
Hay mate! Love you videos and I try to grow can you do the panzer ii but the gray one because that's my favrete
Thanks for the suggestion
It is not you, Matt. It is the kits fuselage parts that's a bit distorted. I have seen the gaps much worse.
Is it a common issue?
@@ModelMinutesI believe so. Maybe not all but many kits has it more or less.
I wish I could do kits that good I'm very amateur and use paint and brush usually after I have built it lol 😂
It’s just practice, the more you do the better you will get. I still build a lot of models by hand painting them too
@ModelMinutes all about enjoying it really isn't it
Hi Matt, good work so far. A bit big for me but interesting to watch any way. Reguarding the fit of the fuselage halves and the gap, I have found in models with bulkheads, floors etc they can be a little too nig, not fit in their grooves quite right or possibly as you found too exact a thickness for their grooves. As Airfix state in most of their instructions a bit of "dry fit" before going too far might help. Certainly it would be possible to check the fit without any internals. The other thing I have found helpful is to use a fuselage half as a jig to get the angles between bulkhead and floor just right, gluing the internal bits together while carefully not gluing to fuselage half obviously.
In case anyone else is interested, I find the "Detail and Scale" series of books (covering a lot of US planes including the Hellcat) fascinating (as a self confessed aeroplane geek) and useful doing a bit of detailing (as a rivet counter who doesn't count rivets!).
thanks for sharing!
Hi. I have one in my stash. I had the thought that i would like to learn how to put some little lights inside and cut some extra pannels out to see inside. Ive been thinking it over for about 4 years...!!! One day maybe...
No time like the present!
It’s the bulkheads that need sanded down a bit or the two halves won’t fit. Ask me how I know.
Yes, it seems everything needs test fitting and then sanding to get things to fit
Built the kit in 2019. I believe CAD is to blame for all of the tight and in my kit oversized internals that required a lot of material removal to fit. Test fit everything first.
For the engine there is a prone to fail, cheap motor option. I adapted a 1.5 volt motor from an old electric tooth brush that runs the propeller trouble free. Battery access is the service magnet held, hatch under the fuselage. On off switch under part, (F24).
If you have a canopy (R8) that is molded too narrow to fit, use just off of a boil, hot water in a container to immerse part into, then carefully fit to the model until cool.
Mine is built in flight on a custom metal stand. The engine panels are removable held in place by magnets.
I did not want to represent a historical subject for all the upgrades required like raised rivets and details that should be represented at 1/24 scale so I chose to make it a model of a model if that makes sense.
Plan on doing a slide show reveal soon. There are videos posted of it on my channel if interested.
Also, the outer fuselage and wings had the common to this kit, overly rough pebble finish.
A joyless job to sand smooth. Similar problem with the Airfix 1/24 Mk.IXc. It has a less rough surface but needs correcting as well to be scale accurate.
thanks for sharing!
@@ModelMinutes You are welcome, Matt. If Airfix puts the kit back into production, I hope it will return to be manufactured in the U.K. with better plastic. A polishing of the molds would help with the outer surface texture issue.
Those changes would promote me to purchase another kit, because it is a great kit and your build showcases that fact.
I have subbed and look forward to the rest of the series.
I'm fully behind glue then paint. I see others glue painted parts together but never seems to work when I've tried it.
I do both, but I prefer to have no paint on the surfaces as it can react with the cement and prevent the bond from being as strong. Quite often i will remove a small amount of paint when bonding but at other times it might be a little too difficult if it is a small part
I had this kit in my hands and said later… Regret that now…
Difficult to find now, going for over £200 on second hand market
@ Great videos and work by the way. Should have mentioned that first.
Yeah I give up my models tied to paying the money you pay for them when you get a party them and they never lineup correctly some do but the majority they don't
There are some very good kits out there which fit together really well - the Airfix Me410 in 1/72 and Revell Hurricane IIB in 1/32 are 2 kits that i found had good fit recently