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Part I here: https://inchhighguy.wordpress.com/2022/04/13/north-american-at-6-snj-texan-harvard-color-photographs-part-i/
This model represents an SOC Seagull of VCS-9 operating from the light cruiser USS Honolulu in 1940. The kit is the venerable Hasegawa offering from 1969 with Yellow Wing decals.
More completed SOC photographs here: https://inchhighguy.wordpress.com/2022/04/07/hasegawa-curtiss-soc-seagull-aboard-uss-portland-in-1-72-scale/
List of improvements:
Landing light drilled out.
Elevator hinges replaced.
Molded-on streamed antenna on port side replaced.
Aileron linkages replaced with Evergreen rod.
Gun trough drilled out, gun from tubing.
Float access ports added, top surfaces replaced.
Hand grabs added on wingtip floats.
Cockpits replaced with Starfighter resin.
Engines replaced with RE&W resin, engine wired.
Pilot’s grab holes cut into upper wing.
Rigged with Nitinol wire.
Cart built for floatplane.
Mass balances added for ailerons.
Exhausts drilled out.
Propeller shaft is off center, replaced with rod. Steps added on float struts.
More finished photographs here: https://inchhighguy.wordpress.com/2022/04/05/hasegawa-curtiss-soc-seagull-aboard-uss-honolulu-in-1-72-scale/
Part III here: https://inchhighguy.wordpress.com/2022/04/01/hasegawa-curtiss-soc-seagull-build-in-1-72-scale-part-iii/
Part II here: https://inchhighguy.wordpress.com/2022/03/25/hasegawa-curtiss-soc-seagull-build-in-1-72-scale-part-ii/
This is Special Hobby kit number SH72106, a 2005 release. Markings are from Marine Fighter Squadron 2 (VMF-2) flown by Captain Carson A. Roberts in 1940.
This is Monogram’s venerable P-6E Hawk kit, still unsurpassed after half a century. Markings are from Starfighter Decals sheet 72-116 and depict an aircraft from the USAAC 33rd Pursuit Squadron in 1938. The yellow wings scheme is particularly attractive on this aircraft, the main problem is deciding which markings to choose!
This is Special Hobby kit SH72222 first released in 2011. The kit represents a FB2C-1 Hawk assigned to VB-5B aboard the USS Ranger (CV-4) in 1934.
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