Eastern Aircraft (Grumman) FM-2
 


The FM-2 had metal plates where the lower fuselage window were on earlier Wildcats so they were backed with plastic card and filled with Epoxysculpt.  The oil cooler was
behind the engine in the accessory compartment so the remnants of the wing oil coolers were ground away and the remaining depressions filled with Epoxysculpt
as well.  The FM-2 had two exhaust stacks on the bottom like the earlier Wildcats but they were smaller and under the cowl with larger reliefs into the fuselage behind the
cowl.  More grinding and filling.  Since the FM-2 had no outboard guns the accompanying shell chutes and bulges, ammunition loading doors below and gun access
doors on top of the wings must be removed where the outboard guns were on the F4F-4 and FM-1.

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