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Description:
Grumman-built carrier capable fighter; delicate night-fighter variant with AN/APS-6 radar. Kit features fine engraved panel lines, highly detailed cockpit, wheel wells and landing gear, full twin-row radial engine, separately molded control surfaces and flaps, multi-part canopy, drop tank and underwing rockets. Also includes resin parts (wheels, gun barrels and wing radome), die-cut canopy/wheel masks, photo-etch parts (interior and exterior details plus color instrument panel, consoles, and seatbelts). Decals for 5 US Marine aircraft: 'White 24' of VMF-511, USS Block Island, April 1945; 'Butch' of VMF-511, USS Block Island, April 1945; VMF(N)-541, Falalop island, Ulithi Atoll, May 1945; BuNo 72627 (?72827?), VMF(N)-533, Ie Shima, May 1945 and BuNo 78669 of VMF(N)-542, Yontan airfield, Okinawa, May 1945 - includes stencils.
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