F4F-3S Wild Catfish

There's one picture and a brief blurb about it in the Detail & Scale book on the Wildcat.

FITTER

Thank you very much Fitter. Those pictures will help. Anymore pictures and a top & forward drawing would be great, anybody?

Woody,

Here's one shot I found on the web, and I have a couple more that I can scan and fire off to 'ya.



I used to have an article out of an old Scale Modeler (did I mention that rag on the FSM site?!? ) by Duane Pfister, he converted the old Monogram kit to the F4F-3S. I know fersher that it had 3-views included. I may have tossed it after all these years, but I'll grunge around and see if I still have it.

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Thanks for the assist blackwolfscd. Any pictures or drawings would help greatly. I have 1/72 & 1/48 scale drawings of the Edo floats (model Wa 4665) used on the Wild Catfish prototype if anybody is interested.

Hey, wasn't Duane Phister the guy that used Scale Modeler magazine as a vehicle to sell his models? At the end of each article he would mention that the model was for sale... I used to really hate that.

Those floats look similar to the ones in the Monogram Cessna 180 kit. I don't remember what scale it was, though. Was it 1:48?? The Airfix 1:32 Tiger Moth also had some floats, but I can't recall what they were like.

FITTER

Yeah, Duane Pfister was the Scale Modeler Gypsy for a long while. I had mixed feelings about his "advertising". Seemed kinda cheesy, but being a commission builder myself now and again, I can see the value of doing what he did. Still seems cheesy though!

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Check with meteor productions I'm pretty sure they sell a resin conversion for the Tamiya kit for the F4F-3S,the instructions should give you everything you need.Originally someone from I believe southern Illinois did the original conversion along with the ski-conversion for the C-130 and a 5 engine HE-111 glider tug.and meteor got the molds from them.Their excellant conversions and it sure beats scratchbuilding or converting 2 floats.

That would be 1/48 right? I need 1/72 scale. I have found some nice 1/72 scale drawings, who knows maybe I'll put out a conversion.