Eduard’s 49588 F6F-3 Hellcat gun bay set

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Eduard’s F6F-3 kit is great and fully detailed but Eduard just made it even better… New set 48588 contains parts to show the mighty Hellcat’s gun bay. Inside small recognizable Eduard’s small plastic bag is packed three pages instruction and one Photo Etched fret containing 50 numbered parts.

Fully detailed gun bay’s with ammo boxes and bullets as well as wing structure are provided in this set. Eduard suggests using Aires 4241 Browning M 2.50 cal wing mounted machine guns as they are not provided in this set.

Eduard included off course gun bay panels and they look excellent when mounted on the kit.
Question is, can I recommend this set to the inexperienced modeler, and my answer is Sure I can. This set is very easy to work with as all the “hard work” you need to do is to cut two panels and the rest is bending and gluing the top quallity photo etched parts.

Using this set in combination with 48585 and 49411 set from Eduard gives you a great opportunity to make a master model from an excellent Eduard Hellcat kit.
Who knows I wouldn’t be surprised if Eduard soon release one of those Big Ed series for their Hellcat kit.

Darko Mladenovic

All images- Eduard Public Release

Sample detail set is provided by Jana Sulcova from Eduard

7 thoughts on “Eduard’s 49588 F6F-3 Hellcat gun bay set

  1. Thanks for the details for Eduard 49588, 49411 and 49585!! They will be great add ons for my newly purchased Eduard 8221 Hellcat!
    Thanos from Greece

  2. Hi again! Thanks for the link!
    Do I need just one Aires 4241 set or two (one for each wing?)!
    Thanks
    Thanos

  3. Hi Darko! Thanks for your reply which really helps a lot!
    OK then I should go for two sets, hence two wings as well.
    However, I will be also waiting for a while since I am ordering from the UK, as you can’t find everything here in Greece!!
    And I really really want to get started…
    Thanos

  4. Darko just another question. I can see that you have replaced the standard cowl flaps on the engine cover (pics 3,4,5) with etched parts. Which set includes these etched cowl flaps?

  5. Set 49411 F6F-3 includes cowl flaps on the engine cover.
    If I may suggest all three sets are great choice for upgrading the kit.

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