1/32 Tamiya Birdcage Corsair with Resin P&W R-2800 engine

[pg265]

Good evening,

Firstly a big thank you to you to follow the WIP of the small marvel from TAMIYA.
And of course a big thank you for all your kind comments!

Wheel wells are superbly handled by Tamiya and their installation is precise and cleverly designed : a joy to build!
I find that some details can still be added very simply. It will give a little more reality to this space that is a bit empty.

The hydraulic distributor is prepared, lightly modified, drilled and finally equipped with its piping.
It was finally set up against the front wall of the bay.
Other pipes depart from the distributor through the aperture provided for this purpose.
Others from the wall, walk behind the retraction actuator to reach the small forward compartment.

Various pipes installed on the root partition side are formatted to run on the bottom of the compartment and back on the opposite to finally get lost in the passage toward to the folding part of the wing.

Well, after all this Blah Blah as preamble, pictures.
They are taken with and without flash in order (achieved or not? ..) More clearly show the details.

That's all.
Not much for today, but it's pretty long and time consuming.

More soon,

Pascal8)

 

[Crimea_River]

Great stuff Pascal.

 

[plheure2]

Um, can I climb in the cockpit and start'er up, Pascal? Jaw-dropping detail, monsieur!

 

[pg265]

Hi,

Thanks a lot Mates

Little progress in appearance, but it's an important step that is preparing to be crossed.
Wheel wells are now detailed and will allow me to soon spary the interior color on that part of the plane.
Oil coolers assemblies are also ready to be painted "Salmon" then "Light Gray".
La baie de droite:

The hydraulic distributor of the compartment:

Installed:

I lost one and ...still does not explain to me the relentless calm that I showed face the ordeal.
This one comes from one of the other boxes; but I'll have to order a sprue to replace the part...

One of the wings oil coolers:

I replaced the original photo-etched by the one proposed by Radu Brinzan, and masked it before primer and camouflage.
The parts are much finer and detailed than the kit ... already pretty!

Everything is connected:

One of the wing root extrados:

Voilà, voilà.
More soon.

Pascal

 

[Wurger]

 

[N4521U]

Shades of Rodney Williams........
what a fantastic time you are having with this build.
Excellent!

 

[Lucky13]

Magnificent work Pascal!

 

[Crimea_River]

Agreed.

 

[A4K]

Agree with all - tres magnifique Pascal!!!

 

[fubar57]

That is some fantastic detail.

Geo

 

[pg265]

Hi,

Thanks for all Mates

To continue on the wing and the central portion particularly, I started to work on the flaps.
These "Belles Bêtes" so special and identifiable amongst all!
The Tamiya assembly is of impressive quality and rendering without external addition is already terrific.

However, I decided to replace some kit parts by few photo-etched from Eduard.
This also causes a bit of rework on some kit parts ... that will need some adaptation .
The result, however pleases me, so it's worth a little extra work.


First, inside flap:

Central flap:

You have to think to open the perforations of the original parts to give a little more meaning to these details.

Outer wing flap:

Tamiya PE parts to detail the internal sides of the flaps:

Wheel well doors: STUNNING
You just have to slide the doors on the installed actuators to finalize this step!

Perfect angle for both right and left doors:

Voilà.


Pascal

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

VERY NICE!

 

[N4521U]

Gord ahmighty.

 

[A4K]

Echo the above posts!

 

[Lucky13]

Superb!

 

[Siddley]

That is amazing work...the base kit itself looks pretty nice, but with the PE and your own detailing the result is something else...

 

[Crimea_River]

Gorgeous details.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far!

 

[pg265]

Hi,

Thank You very much for kind comments!

Some progress on the Corsair.

Work continues in the central section.
I sprayed a coat of "Salmon" protection in the wheel well:

Light Gray (Gunze):

Zinc Chromate on the doors:

Rims; lovely details on those proposed by Barracuda compared to those (already very thin) from Tamiya:

Oil coolers are completed:

then installed:

They can be distinguished through the cooling flap whose lip was refined:

The leading and trailing edges of the fowler are completed and all awaiting paint:

Test fit:

For assembly that suits me, I placed strips of plastic card at the "break" of the lower wing part.
This enables perfect alignment of the radiators intakes and prevents putty after assembly.
Just leave a slight backwardation(?):

Gluing of the extrados:

I finally started working on the canopy.
Internal frames are never shown or proposed in photo-etched ... it does not suit me.
I (tried) to systematically achieve this detail which seems to me rather important in a cockpit, the more so when it is on the 32nd.

Further details will round, I hope the start of detailing.

Voilà.
Questions and comments are welcome.

Pascal