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07-17-2011 | 05:30 PM

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mirce

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RE: Ziroli F6F Hellcat Builder's Diary

Aaron, thanks...

For circles, rivets, doors and hatches I use Oracal 641 silver self adhesive tape. I have Roland cutter and made all that details myself in my work shop.

For little circles, screws... I use one layer of Oracal foil, but for doors and Hatches I use two layers.
For cutting little details you must have cutter knife with sharper top, and pressure on Roland cutter is 70 gr.
For two layers foil I use normal cutter knife and bigger pressure, 180 gr. But, that is not enough, so you need to cut all doors or other parts 4-5 times. Cutter always cut at same line...

This are knifes for cutter...

Upper is for little parts...

I use Corel program for drawing details...

For detail source I use very good draw from Hellcat plastic model, one very good plastic model, photos from Hečllcat in Air and Space Museum...

I am not finish with work on details on my model, but here is some photos...

Wing...

Some details on wing on plastic model...

...and on my model...

Center panel is not finish yet...

Little circles on wing I made from 2 mm brass tube. On RCU in topic about my F9F Panther, I wrote how I do that. Here is a link:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_10..._1/key_/tm.htm

And finally fuselage. This is my second Ziroli Hellcat (about first you can read early in this topic), and on first one I made rivets on fuselage from white glue for wood furniture. They was little to big, so I decided to made rivets now from little vinyl circles...

First few photos from first model...