1/48 Tamiya F4U-1 Bird Cage Corsair
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Crimea_River
Marshal
A very nice looking pit. I'm not an expert on the colours so can't offer any further advice on the pink primer. I just know it was kinda pink.
fubar57
General
This is what I believe is a good reference...Birdcage Corsair Restoration Update For the green I use Humbrol 75 Bronze Green straight out of the tin. It seems to match yours. Its also enamel but for the little I use I can live with it
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Good work so far!
le_steph40
Chief Master Sergeant
I used the same for the cockpits of my 3 P-47Ds. I like the rendition of the color
Grant, excellent work so far
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Grant Barr
Senior Airman
Thanks Geo - the reference site you provided must be the source for a couple of photo's I found in other modellers threads elsewhere. I have also found some photos of a recovered early F4U-1 which show the original (and somewhat faded) primer colour. All up it should be enough to get me moving with mixing up a reasonable representation. Cheers.
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Grant Barr
Senior Airman
Small disruption to this build. Someone decided that my living room would be a good place to try parking their car...
Happily - no one was injured (not even the driver) so all good! Might be a couple of months before I can move back home - will kick this project back off once we've had the house repaired.
Cheers, Grant!
Happily - no one was injured (not even the driver) so all good! Might be a couple of months before I can move back home - will kick this project back off once we've had the house repaired.
Cheers, Grant!
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- #29
Grant Barr
Senior Airman
Thanks Wurger. Waiting on an engineer's assessment, been verbally told this afternoon that the entire back and side of the house will likely need to be demolished and rebuilt. Might be a couple of months - provided we can find a builder that can do the work! Cest la vie!
Crimea_River
Marshal
Glad to hear everyone is safe. That's going to be a pain now but something to talk about in years to come.
fubar57
General
Wow. Glad all are safe and hope it gets fixed as fast and proper as possible
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Good to know you're all safe and sound, and hope the damage can be sorted soon.
Bloody hell !
glad there was no injuries
glad there was no injuries
Glad everyone's safe!
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Grant Barr
Senior Airman
Thanks for the kind words gents!
Looks like the rebuild will be challenging - one of the key load bearing studs for the second storey has been damaged. Will need to have the upper floor stabilised before any work can commence. Then they need to work out how best to move an entire wall laterally by over an inch (if a car can punch it one way I am hopeful we can move it back some other way without resorting to hitting from the other side). Glad it's not my job to fix it!
Looks like the rebuild will be challenging - one of the key load bearing studs for the second storey has been damaged. Will need to have the upper floor stabilised before any work can commence. Then they need to work out how best to move an entire wall laterally by over an inch (if a car can punch it one way I am hopeful we can move it back some other way without resorting to hitting from the other side
). Glad it's not my job to fix it!- Thread starter
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Grant Barr
Senior Airman
I'm back!!! We had some temporary repairs made to reinforce the damaged load bearing stud and install a temporary internal false wall with hoarding pinned to the outside wall. All up we now have a house that is basically sealed and seems to hold some heat despite it being a cold and wet start to winter. Spent the last week and half just cleaning up all the brick and mortar dust that settled throughout - still some cleaning to go, but its basically livable now.
The better news is that I've had some time in the past two nights to get back to the Corsair. It's a nice way to get away from thinking about what is needed next with the house.
I've managed to button up the fuselage without destroying any of the work I did on the cockpit tub. The engine has been installed into the cowl and the wing root section has been assembled with some hydraulic lines added to the u/c bays for a bit more character (yet to be painted in these shots). I've also spent a fair bit of time in assuring that the wing root sub-assembly lines up properly with panel lines on the fuselage - this was necessary as, when gluing the upper wing sections on I did not pay enough attention to their fore/aft alignment. I spent a bunch of time making sure they lined up laterally, but did not realise until later that the leading edge of the upper section was about 0.5mm forward of the lower section (dang it!!!). This had the flow on effect of pushing the fuselage section molded into the wing root assembly to be 0.5mm too far back. So after some filing, sanding and fettling I think its all good to go.
I'm hoping to do some more over the next couple of days. Want to get this one done as I am now starting to amass a "stash", which I never normally have. The Chairman of the Board has noticed the growing pile of kits and issued a "please explain" notice
. Time to get building!!!
As always - thanks to everyone who looks in on my ramblings!
The better news is that I've had some time in the past two nights to get back to the Corsair. It's a nice way to get away from thinking about what is needed next with the house.
I've managed to button up the fuselage without destroying any of the work I did on the cockpit tub. The engine has been installed into the cowl and the wing root section has been assembled with some hydraulic lines added to the u/c bays for a bit more character (yet to be painted in these shots). I've also spent a fair bit of time in assuring that the wing root sub-assembly lines up properly with panel lines on the fuselage - this was necessary as, when gluing the upper wing sections on I did not pay enough attention to their fore/aft alignment. I spent a bunch of time making sure they lined up laterally, but did not realise until later that the leading edge of the upper section was about 0.5mm forward of the lower section (dang it!!!). This had the flow on effect of pushing the fuselage section molded into the wing root assembly to be 0.5mm too far back. So after some filing, sanding and fettling I think its all good to go.
I'm hoping to do some more over the next couple of days. Want to get this one done as I am now starting to amass a "stash", which I never normally have. The Chairman of the Board has noticed the growing pile of kits and issued a "please explain" notice
. Time to get building!!!As always - thanks to everyone who looks in on my ramblings!
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Good to know the house is getting sorted, and the model is progressing nicely too.
Crimea_River
Marshal
With Terry on that. The key concept of a "stash" is that the contents remain hidden from all except the owner. You have obviously not met this basic principle.
