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.