Swede Vejtas's F4F-4

[Tobarghe]

Here is Lt. Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa's F4F-4. It is based off of my first profile, with many improvements as suggested by the various comments on my first profile. Somethings I didn't remedy because I wanted to gain a little more confidence before trying. This is my second profile. I use Adobe CS, Wacom Graphire tablet and done on a Mac with OSX. I'm basing this profile a partial photo and another artists rendering(The latter always being a dangerous practice!) I did not weather this one as I had said I would. Will get to weathering some other time.
Thank you,
Edward Grabot
illustr8tor64@hotmail.com

References:
Warpaint Series #9 Grumman F4F Wildcat
Kagero #12 Grumman F4F Wildcat
Monografie Lotnicze #20 F4F Wildcat
Squardon/Signal Publications US Navy Aircraft Camouflage & Markings 1940-1945
Wings Volume 2, Number 1 February 1972
Modelpres Grumman Wildcat Profily letadel ll. svetove valky 9
And a special thanks to Dave Greene for
Janes Publishing Company Limited Hellcat &
Osprey Aircraft of the Aces #3 wildcat Ace Of World War II

[gamary]

Very nice. At first, when I read the thread title, I thought: "Swedish Wildcat? Cool!".

Weathering is one of the more complicated part of doing the profiles, but also quite fun to do and experiment with.

[Tobarghe]

Thank you,
I'll try some weathering on the next one.
Edward Grabot

[santynus]

Nice work Tobarge
I aggre with gamary about the wathering

the undergarriage look a little bit flat (meybe is the scale effect)

regards

santino

[Tobarghe]

Thanks Santino,
The whole landing gear area was a challenge. I'm not satisfied with the landing gear either.
Edward Grabot