After being "let go" from a local sign company a month before Christmas, I decided to do a profile of a Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat in between job hunting activities.  It is based on a B&W photo of Lt. O'Hare in the cockpit of a F4F-3 (about 1942) with F-3 on the fuselage.  I used the Adobe CS suite on a Mac with OS X.

Here is Lt. Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa's F4F-4.  It is based off of my first profile, with many improvements as suggested by the various comments on my first profile.  Some things I didn't remedy because I wanted to gain a little more confidence before trying.  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

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