Freshly printed instruction booklets and boxes for the 70090 F4F-3 Wildcat™ kit have just arrived at our warehouse. This means we are now very close to starting shipments of the model kits. We are only waiting for the sprues to arrive from the tooling shop.

Today we are showing the complete instruction booklet for the new Wildcat. It clearly highlights how different the F4F-3 version was from the later folding-wing Wildcats.

The model represents the early Wildcat from the opening phase of the Pacific War — featuring fixed wings, its characteristic armament, and details specific to aircraft from Coral Sea, Wake Island, and the first months of the war against Japan.

70090 F4F-3 Wildcat – trzy samoloty, które stanęły przeciw potędze Japonii

The instruction booklet includes three marking options:

  • F-5 – Lt. Albert O. Vorse Jr., VF-2, USS Lexington, Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942
  • 211-F-11 – Capt. Henry T. Elrod, VMF-211, Wake Island, December 1941
  • F-13 – Lt. Noel A. M. Gayler, VF-3, USS Lexington, February 1942

This is one of those instruction booklets that truly captures the atmosphere of the early Pacific War — a time when the Wildcat was the primary fighter of the US Navy and Marine Corps, and the outcome of the war was still uncertain.

See also

Arma Hobby 70090 F4F-3 Wildcat 1/72 kit in the Arma Hobby store Decal sheet included in the Arma Hobby 70090 F4F-3 Wildcat 1/72 kit

Cover page of the F4F-3 Wildcat 70090 instruction booklet

Cockpit assembly instructions for the F4F-3 Wildcat model

Engine and fuselage assembly instructions for the F4F-3 Wildcat

Landing gear and wing assembly instructions for the F4F-3 Wildcat

Weapons and canopy assembly instructions for the Wildcat

F-5 VF-2 USS Lexington paint scheme

211-F-11 Wake Island paint scheme

F-13 VF-3 USS Lexington paint scheme

70090 F4F-3 Wildcat – kalkomanie i maski Cartograf

 

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