[Elmer]

Originally Posted by CLLCTR5

Elmer,

Hope you are sitting down.

I like C1's better!

TFM's does not seem to have pilot name, step area, and the rivet detail to me looks a little obnoxious. I also see a bit too much of a gap near the engine cowling.

I'm a big Butch O'Hare fan so I really like how C1 honored him specifically.

Wonders never cease.

Did you get hit on the head recently? (Kidding of course). Well, a great photo comparison is truly needed here! I see the gap on the nose. On the other hand, I never liked C1's gap running from the trailing wing edge to the tail along the fuselage. The FM model has a better fit in that area. The rivet detail... it is hard to tell from the pictures if it is well done, or obnoxiously done. I for one love rivet detail that is not badly overscaled (almost all rivet detail is overscaled anyway... but to my taste it makes for a more interesting model).

[STARMAN 352ND]

Sorry Elmer i'm passing on these FM Wildcats....I would like to see a better paint scheme.
JP

[mustangdriver]

I have to of the C1 Wildcats, so I may not pick this up, but I might break down and get one. Who knows. Any how it is great to see FM do a good job with an airplane. Some of their molds are really great.

[Elmer]

Originally Posted by STARMAN 352ND

Sorry Elmer i'm passing on these FM Wildcats....I would like to see a better paint scheme.
JP

Ok... JP is out for the photo comparison. That leaves Mark or Pappy. I am not sure Pappy owns a C1; do you Pappy? If not, can I help you spend your money?

[Elmer]

Someone out there in cyber space must have the FM Wildcat by now. Please share your thoughts.

[PappyB]

Originally Posted by Elmer

Ok... JP is out for the photo comparison. That leaves Mark or Pappy. I am not sure Pappy owns a C1; do you Pappy? If not, can I help you spend your money?

Nope, I won't be ponying up for that one -- don't care for the schemes so far from FM enough. And no, don't own a C1 yet -- waiting for sales on that one. Why don't you take the plunge Elmer -- help some brothers out

[Elmer]

Originally Posted by PappyB

Why don't you take the plunge Elmer -- help some brothers out

HA! HA! Good one Pappy! Perhaps I will (but it can't be soon... I've decided to first spring for the pricey Tamiya Masterworks ME-262, T-Bolt, and Birdcage Corsair in fabuloso 1:48)!

[Saeta]

Hello

I just posted a new thread on this same matter not realising that this one already existed.
Apparently, Hobby Master is coming up with a 1/48 Wildcat before the end of the year :
Click the following link and scroll down :

onmarkint.com/manuf/hobby-master.php

As for the existing F4F models by FM/A and C1, I had always read in most of your comments elsewhere that FM was crap and C1 was nice quality, but actually, in the Wildcat pictures I saw some time ago in The Flying Mule, it seems the other way around !!

Regards to everybody

[FormerViperDriver]

Originally Posted by Saeta

Hello

I just posted a new thread on this same matter not realising that this one already existed.
Apparently, Hobby Master is coming up with a 1/48 Wildcat before the end of the year :
Click the following link and scroll down :

onmarkint.com/manuf/hobby-master.php

As for the existing F4F models by FM/A and C1, I had always read in most of your comments elsewhere that FM was crap and C1 was nice quality, but actually, in the Wildcat pictures I saw some time ago in The Flying Mule, it seems the other way around !!

Regards to everybody

AsmI mentioned in the other thread you started, the HM Wildcat is cancelled.

FVD

[PappyB]

Originally Posted by Elmer

HA! HA! Good one Pappy! Perhaps I will (but it can't be soon... I've decided to first spring for the pricey Tamiya Masterworks ME-262, T-Bolt, and Birdcage Corsair in fabuloso 1:48)!

Oh... good excuse! You'll have to post reviews/pics when you get 'em (corsair first please )