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The backup camera installed in this Toyota Camry connects to the factory navigation system to display what the camera is seeing behind the vehicle
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Some background:
The Grumman F4F Wildcat was an American carrier-based fighter aircraft that began service with both the United States Navy and some European air forces in 1940.
Grumman fighter development began with the two-seat Grumman FF biplane. The FF was the first U.S. naval fighter with a retractable landing gear. The wheels retracted into the fuselage, leaving the tires visibly exposed, flush with sides of the fuselage. Two single-seat biplane designs followed, the F2F and F3F, which established the general fuselage outlines of what would become the F4F Wildcat.
In 1935, while the F3F was still undergoing flight-testing, Grumman started work on its next biplane fighter, the G-16. At the time, the U.S. Navy favored a monoplane design, the Brewster F2A-1, ordering production early in 1936. However, an order was also placed for Grumman's G-16 (given the navy designation XF4F-1) as a backup in case the Brewster monoplane proved to be unsatisfactory.
It was clear to Grumman that the XF4F-1 would be inferior to the Brewster monoplane, so Grumman abandoned the XF4F-1, designing instead a new monoplane fighter, the XF4F-2. The overall performance of Grumman's new monoplane was considered inferior to the Brewster Buffalo. The XF4F-2 was marginally faster, but the Buffalo was more maneuverable, so the Brewster aircraft was judged superior and was chosen for production.
After losing out to Brewster, Grumman completely rebuilt the prototype as the XF4F-3 with new wings and tail and a supercharged version of the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 "Twin Wasp" radial engine. Testing of the new XF4F-3 led to an order for F4F-3 production models, the first of which was completed in February 1940. This modernized aircraft met a lot of international interest, and several orders were places.
France ordered the type, powered by a Wright R-1820 "Cyclone 9" radial engine, to be based on board of the aircraft carrier ‘Béarn’ and to replace the outdated Dewoitine D.376 fighters. From the order of 24 machines only about a dozen aircraft were delivered in time before France fell to the Axis powers, the remaining order went instead to the British Royal Navy, who christened the new fighter the "Martlet.
The French G-36A’s saw a short but intense career over the Channel, but they remained based at land since the ‘Béarn’ was on a mission in the Caribbean Sea: after the defeat of France in June 1940 the carrier was docked at Martinique, and at that time all French G-36s were already destroyed.
Further orders came from Greece and Belgium. The naval Wildcats destined for Greece were directly delivered to the Royal Navy, too, while the Belgian G-36s were purely land-based, lacked the wing folding mechanism and shared much of the equipment of the French order, including different instruments and a reversed throttle installation. Much like the French aircraft, a small number was delivered and ready for service in May 1940, but these had no impact on the German invasion and all aircraft were destroyed within a few days, most of them on the ground.
Specifications:
Crew: 1
Length: 28 ft 9 in (8.76 m)
Wingspan: 38 ft (11.58 m)
Height: 11 ft 10 in (3.60 m)
Loaded weight: 7,000 lb (3,200 kg)
Powerplant:
1 × Pratt & Whitney R-1830-76 double-row radial engine, 1,200 hp (900 kW)
Performance:
Maximum speed: 331 mph (531 km/h)
Range: 845 mi (1,360 km)
Service ceiling: 39,500 ft (12,000 m)
Rate of climb: 2,303 ft/min (11.7 m/s)
Armament:
6x 7.5mm MAC 1934 machine guns in the outer wings
6x 7,62mm (0.303") Browning Mk II machine guns (350 rounds per gun),
one synchronized pair above the engine, firing through the propeller,
the other four in the outer wings
The kit and its assembly:
The Grumman Wildcat is a nice subject for the Battle of Britain era, since there were several European orders for this aircraft – in reality, most of these ended up in British service, but what if…? Since I had recently bought three Hobby Boss F4Fs in a cheap combo I was happy to find a use for two of these simple kits as Group Build submissions for whatifmodelers.com.
If you are not an interior detail fetishist, the Hobby Boss kits are not bad. There are nice, engraved surface details, but you have to check if things aren’t missing – like the complete exhaust system.
In order to set the two models apart from each other I changed some details.
The French machine was more or less built to USN F4F-3 standard (only the antenna mast was straightened).
Painting and markings:
The more challenging part of the build. The French Wildcat received a typical Aéronautique Navale livery, with uniform blue-grey upper surfaces and light grey undersurfaces – pretty similar to USN aircraft of that time period.
Finding adequate tones was challenging, though, recommendations for French navy machines differ widely (from light blue to dark grey!). I eventually settled for Humbrol 144 (FS35164) and 127 (FS36375), which was, after a black ink wash, considerably lightened through panel shading with pale blue-grey tones. The interior was painted in dark grey.
A nice detail are the Tricolores, which are not only carried on the fin rudder, but also on the horizontal stabilizers. In order to match them with the roundels’ colors (they actually belong to an Airfix Blenheim, maybe 30 years old!) I painted them, only the white stripes are decals. The tactical code was made with single decal letters – and in order to add a retro touch I used white over black decals of the same shape and size, creating a shadow effect. The result is IMHO nice.
Both kits received a landing gear in bare aluminum, and both were only slightly weathered through dry-brushing with light grey and a bit of silver. Some exhaust and gun soot was added with grinded graphite, and then everything was sealed under acrylic matt varnish.
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