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Military Illustrated Modeller (issue 115) April 2021 (Aircraft Edition) 'Classic Wurger - Roy Sutherland's Hasegawa 1:48 Focke-Wulf FW-190A-6' 4 NEWS What's happening in modelling and aviation 6 REFERENCE Focke-Wulf Fw-190 A-6 and A-8 12 PREVIEW Clear Prop 1:72 La-5 COVER STORY 14 CLASSIC WURGER Hasegawa 1:48 Focke-Wulf Fw-190 A-6 by Roy Sutherland 24 PREVIEW Kinetic 1:48 IA-58 Pucara 26 THE GLORY OF THE TWELVE POINT SUN Part One AFV Club 1:48 F-CK-1 by John Chung 40 YELLOW WINGS Trumpeter 1:32 F4F-3 Wildcat (Early) by Mark Casiglia 52 DRAB WIDOW Great Wall Hobby 1:48 P-61A Black Widow by Kamil Feliks Sztarbala 65 NEXT ISSUES What's coming up in the next issues of Military Illustrated Modeller 66 TAILPIECE A U.S. Air Force HC-130J Combat King II drops a container ramp load at Malemute Drop Zone during 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron airborne training

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AM-22 The Grumman F4F Wildcat (Inc. GM FM-1 & FM-2) - A Complete Guide to Grumman's First 'Cat' by Richard A. Franks. The Wildcat has been a popular aircraft type with modellers and has recently been the subject of several new toolings in all scales, especially in 1/72nd and 1/48th. Our latest book will go some way towards unpicking the different variants and detail differences that apply to the type. This twenty-second book in our much-acclaimed series will contain at least 208-pages packed with vital information that no active modeller and Wildcat enthusiast should be without. It will contain: 80+ pages of technical information 60+ pages of walk-around images and technical diagrams 20+ pages of camouflage and markings 25+ pages of model builds and modelling information 200+ photographs including wartime images Colour side views by Richard J. Caruana 3D isometric views of all variants by Juraj Jankovic Specially commissioned extensive full kit builds by Steve A. Evans and Libor Jekl Specially commissioned front cover artwork by Jerry Boucher Bonus set of scale plans Publication is scheduled for the end of October 2023 [F4F-1 [F4F-2 [F4F-3 [F4F-4 [F4F-5].

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Grumman F6F Hellcat. Even before Pearl Harbor the U.S. Navy realised that it would be hard for its existing fighters, the F2A Buffalo and F4F Wildcat, to deal with Japan's shipboard fighters, especially the A6M Zero. The situation was such that in June 1941 the U.S. Navy placed orders with Grumman's 'Iron Works' for the F6F Hellcat before the first prototype had even flown. It was the right decision for Grumman's new fighter, although much larger and heavier than the Zero, proved to be the latter's nemesis, so that the American fighter's better fire-power, sturdiness, range and speed more than matched the Zero's agility. Its entry into service was also timely, for the much- awaited F4U Corsair suffered from a flawed carrier deck capability, so that the Hellcat remained the main carrier fighter of the U.S. Navy throughout the rest of the Second World War and established air superiority in the Pacific. Indeed, in barely two years of war it destroyed no less than 5,271 enemy aircraft of the 6,477 claimed by the U.S. fighters, attaining a fantastic kill-to-loss ratio of 19.1:1, and fully deserving the nickname of 'Ace-Maker'. It certainly was the most important Allied shipboard fighter of that world conflict. The Hellcat was used also by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, during the war, while in the postwar period it saw service with the French Aeronavale, which used them in Indochina, as well as with the Uruguayan Navy, the latter flying them until 1961. [F6F-3 F6F-5 F6F-3N F6F-5N]

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