My local hobby shop has begun to carry some reference books and today I picked up the Kagero Publications #12, The Grumman F4F Wildcat. It comes with a decal sheet carrying markings for 10 different aircraft in 1/72 1nd 1/48 scales and repeating 3 of them in 1/32 scale. Kagero is nice enough to duplicate all text in English, not just the photo captions, and this is a very good history of the F4F accompanied by drawings and several pages of color profiles. If you have that Trumpeter kit in your stash, or even the older Revell kit, this publication has enough photos and drawings to give you the ammo to super detail to your heart's content. The text and photographs cover the history of the F4F in both American and British service, covering all models produced by both Grumman and General Motors. There are also a couple of pages of color photographs of a restored Wildcat, but be warned, it is a General Motors FM-2 in an early 1942 color scheme. There is just one thing I don't understand, How did a Polish publishing company get a Japanese name??
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19 years ago