Five marking variants for the Wildcat VI, the British equivalent of the FM-2, from the decks of escort carriers.
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When Grumman handed the manufacture of Wildcats over to the automaker General Motors, a version came about that was lightened and fitted with a more powerful engine. So that a machine with higher power would stay controllable, it was given a taller vertical tail surface, which is the mark by which it is recognized at first glance. The British called it the Wildcat VI and deployed it from escort carriers, where a short deck suited its small size.
On the sheet are five machines with serials of the JV series:
The geographical spread is worth noting. One and the same squadron equipment appears with the northern convoys and in the Indian Ocean, and the shades of British naval camouflage behaved differently in the two areas, because the sun faded the blue-gray finish far faster than northern weather did.
With the Fleet Air Arm, squadrons with numbers in the eight hundreds were units put together only during the war and their lifetime tended to be short. That is precisely why relatively few photographs of them have survived and printed sheets for them are more sought after among collectors than those for the better known units.
Tip: with the faded variant it works to apply the decal onto a slightly roughened gloss, so that the edge is worked into the toning that follows more easily.
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