 | Lt. Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa's F4F-4 Wildcat| Personal Gallery Discuss Lt. Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa's F4F-4 Wildcat in the OFF-Topic / Misc. forums; This is my second profile. I use Adobe CS, Wacom Graphire tablet and done on a Mac with OSX. I'... |
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01-05-2008, 05:50 AM
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#1 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Reno, NV
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Country:  | Lt. Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa's F4F-4 Wildcat
This is my second profile. I use Adobe CS, Wacom Graphire tablet and done on a Mac with OSX. I'm basing this profile a partial photo and another artists rendering(The latter always being a dangerous practice!) I did not weather this one as I had said I would. Will get to weathering some other time.
Thank you,
Edward Grabot illustr8tor64@hotmail.com
References:
Warpaint Series #9 Grumman F4F Wildcat
Kagero #12 Grumman F4F Wildcat
Monografie Lotnicze #20 F4F Wildcat
Squardon/Signal Publications US Navy Aircraft Camouflage & Markings 1940-1945
Wings Volume 2, Number 1 February 1972
Modelpres Grumman Wildcat Profily letadel ll. svetove valky 9
And a special thanks to Dave Greene for
Janes Publishing Company Limited Hellcat &
Osprey Aircraft of the Aces #3 wildcat Ace Of World War II | 
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01-05-2008, 05:52 AM
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Country: | THAT'S SO COOL! | 
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01-05-2008, 05:56 AM
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Country: | Thank you B-17engineer,
Having fun with the 'ol Wildcat
Edward Grabot | |
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01-05-2008, 06:05 AM
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Country:  | wow ed! 
you were so fast! didn´t expect it.
Think Dan could love it, maybe he will have some corrections as he could have some pics of this a/c. Hope he will get online soon.
Thanks again!!!
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Zlin, Czech Republic
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01-05-2008, 06:24 AM
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Country: | Great stuff Ed, the best profile of his crate Ive ever seen..... Im thinking the 9 is slightly altered from its original state tho...
I am still trying to get a hold of Stan, he's still outta town.... Im sure he would love this profile....
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01-05-2008, 07:09 AM
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Country:  | Beautiful! I hope to build Stan's F-4 and Dauntless soon and didn't he fly a F4U Corsair too at some point, or do I remember wrong?
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"I´m going back to the front to relax"
"THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT"
"Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!"
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01-05-2008, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Lucky13  Beautiful! I hope to build Stan's F-4 and Dauntless soon and didn't he fly a F4U Corsair too at some point, or do I remember wrong? | Lucky
F4U as a test pilot I guess. Dan could confirm that...
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Roman Susil
Zlin, Czech Republic
...a friend of Joe Owsianik,So. Plainfield, NJ, a former left waist gunner from B-17G ''Tail End Charlie" from 2ndBG,20th Sqdn, that was forced to bail out on Aug. 29th, 1944 over my country. | |
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01-05-2008, 10:27 AM
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Country: | Ok, thanks seesul. I thought that he flew them in combat. Did he fly the F6 Hellcat?
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JAN
"I´m going back to the front to relax"
"THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT"
"Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!"
"When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!" | |
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01-05-2008, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Lucky13 Ok, thanks seesul. I thought that he flew them in combat. Did he fly the F6 Hellcat? | this is the same question I asked Dan. He doesn´t think so.
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Roman Susil
Zlin, Czech Republic
...a friend of Joe Owsianik,So. Plainfield, NJ, a former left waist gunner from B-17G ''Tail End Charlie" from 2ndBG,20th Sqdn, that was forced to bail out on Aug. 29th, 1944 over my country. | |
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01-05-2008, 10:57 AM
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"I´m going back to the front to relax"
"THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT"
"Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!"
"When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!" | |
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01-05-2008, 12:48 PM
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01-06-2008, 04:15 AM
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Country:  | Ed, excellent Profile mate! Puts another one on my to do list!! | |
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