{"id":1580210,"date":"2020-04-24T19:08:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T17:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/?p=1580210"},"modified":"2024-07-10T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T08:13:39","slug":"fm-2-wildcat-expert-set-decals-70031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/en\/blog\/2020\/04\/24\/fm-2-wildcat-expert-set-decals-70031\/","title":{"rendered":"FM-2 Wildcat Expert Set decals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we posted first news about forthcoming FM-2 Wildcat kit, modellers usually asked: \u201ewhat markings in the box?\u201d or \u201ewhat about decals\u201d. We understand this curiosity very much. Pictures of good quality sprues of new release kit make modellers mind to start planning next build. And the first question is: what are the best possible markings for this kit? Let\u2019s see what inside box of Expert Set!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Choosing marking for FM-2 was not that easy. There are four camouflage schemes to be included, tri-colour, Sea Blue overall, ASW white-grey and classic British Temperate Sea Scheme. Also, we should include markings of aeroplanes with and without HVAR rockets. It was hard to select markings for all three boxes planned.<\/p>\n<h2>FM-2 Wildcat colour options in Expert Set<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-colours.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1580191\" src=\"http:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-colours.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-colours.jpg 677w, https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-colours-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-colours-610x901.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>FM-2 Wildcat, BuNo unknown\/B6<\/strong>, Composite Squadron VC-10, CVE-73 USS Gambier Bay, pilot Ens. Joseph Dennis McGraw, Battle off Samar, 25 October 1944.<\/li>\n<li><strong>FM-2 Wildcat, BuNo 16262\/B19<\/strong>, Composite Squadron VC-10, CVE-73 USS Gambier Bay, pilot Ltn. Herman J. Hardess, Marianas 15 czerwca 1944. The same codes (except BuNo) were on Sea Blue overall aeroplane during Battle off Samar.<\/li>\n<li><strong>FM-2 Wildcat, BuNo 16130\/3<\/strong>, Composite Squadron VC-8, CVE-60 USS Guadalcanal, pilot Ltn. (j.g.). F.H. Behlen III, North Atlantic, 30 May 1944.<\/li>\n<li><strong>FM-2 Wildcat, BuNo unknown\/1<\/strong>, Composite Squadron VC-69, CVE-60 USS Guadalcanal, North Atlantic, Autumn 1944. Aeroplane with HVAR rockets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>FM-2 Wildcat, BuNo unknown\/2<\/strong>, Composite Squadron VC-96, CVE-81 USS Rudyard Bay, Okinawa, April 1945. Aeroplane with HVAR rockets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wildcat Mk VI, JV768\/S-X<\/strong>, 882 Squadron FAA, HMS Searcher, pilot S.Lt. Ronald F. Moore, RNVR, claimed \u00a0\u00bd Bf-109G, \u201eOperation Prefix\u201d, Trondheim, Norway, 26 March 1945, Bonus \u2013 serials and code letter for two other aeroplanes from this fight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2>Decals by Techmod<\/h2>\n<p>Techmod printed huge decals sheet 18 x 8.5 cm with new technology (varnish on the top of markings). Decal sheet consist all markings with HVAR stencils included too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1580196 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-02.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-02-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-02-768x386.jpg 768w, https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-02-610x306.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1580198 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-03.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-03-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-03-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-03-610x344.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1580200 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-04.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-04-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-04-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-kalki-04-610x344.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-decals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1580205\" src=\"http:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-decals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-decals.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-decals-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-decals-768x367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/70031-decals-610x292.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>You may be interested<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>FM-2 Wildcat kits and accessories <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armahobby.com\/category\/aircraft-models-wildcat?hash=4124d1af9a7ea1f5bece2c836dcc1e82\">in the Arma Hobby webstore<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"2YCXaOubgs\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/blog\/2020\/04\/17\/fm-2-wildcat-czesci-produkcyjne\/\">FM-2 Wildcat \u2013 cz\u0119\u015bci produkcyjne<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8222;FM-2 Wildcat \u2013 cz\u0119\u015bci produkcyjne&#8221; &#8212; Arma Hobby - blog firmowy\" src=\"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/blog\/2020\/04\/17\/fm-2-wildcat-czesci-produkcyjne\/embed\/#?secret=dUYqQenB8u#?secret=2YCXaOubgs\" data-secret=\"2YCXaOubgs\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we posted first news about forthcoming FM-2 Wildcat kit, modellers usually asked: \u201ewhat markings in the box?\u201d or \u201ewhat about decals\u201d. We understand this curiosity very much. Pictures of good quality sprues of new release kit make modellers mind to start planning next build. And the first question is: what are the best possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1580203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[257,98,205,130,139,253],"class_list":["post-1580210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arma-hobby-kits","category-blog","tag-nr70031-en","tag-scale172-en-2","tag-colours-and-markings","tag-decals-en","tag-expert-set-en","tag-wildcat-en","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580210"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596440,"href":"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580210\/revisions\/1596440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1580203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armahobbynews.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}