1/48 Tamiya F4U1 Corsair

[brucejscott]

Looking great Dave. Keep up the good work.

 

[Catch22]

Here's a picture of the Vintage Wings Corsair I took 3 years back I believe:

It might be a LITTLE off but I wouldn't be concerned. I think what's throwing us a bit are the two "bumps" on top of the prop housing (excuse my lack of technical terms, I know history, not tech! ) are indeed fairly high in the real thing.

If anyone's interested here are a good bulk of the photos I took there. This isn't all of them, I just have forgotten to upload the rest.

Flickr: CoryUlmer's Photostream

 

[Airframes]

Yep, the engine is very slightly off-centre, to the left as viewed, and slightly high. Before you finish the cowling, just check how it looks with the prop in place, as this might accentuate the look. Better to check now before being committed to leaving it.

 

[Totalize]

Guys,

Thanks for the feedback on the engine. Unlike the Tamiya Engine the Verlinden one has no guides to insure the engine lines up properly. One has to eyeball it in place and since it is resin and requires CA glue to hold the two sections together once it is glued it pretty much stays where it is. So despite it being very slightly off center I am going to stick with it as it looks fine with the prop on.

Cheers for now.
Dave.

 

[Totalize]

Catch,

Love the pictures. Very helpful. If you are referring to the two cylinders on the housing I believe these are the distributors. The black box in between them is the magneto.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Wayne Little]

Engine does look slightly high and to the left to me....but it sure looks nice though!

 

[N4521U]

A tip I read a long time ago was attaching a thin, realy thin sheet of styrene, or thinned down piece of sprue to the resin piece. This way one can apply regular cement and position the part before it dries?

 

[Totalize]

A tip I read a long time ago was attaching a thin, realy thin sheet of styrene, or thinned down piece of sprue to the resin piece. This way one can apply regular cement and position the part before it dries?

Thanks very much for checking in on the build and posting your comments and suggestions.

I like your idea of using a piece of styrene. I will have to remember this for the future.

 

[Totalize]

Progress Update. i got the wings on and base coat. I lightened both the Intermediate and non-specular sea blue for scale effect and to give a faded appearance.
Here are some shots. I still need to to some touch ups on the flaps exhausts etc. After that I am going to add the decals and do the weathering. The basecoat was done with my Iwata Airbrush with a .35mm needle.
I then used my Badger AB with a .20mm needle to the fine detail work where the two colours meet. This required multiple alternating passes with the AB in which I sprayed one colour then the other then back to the first colour and so on. This is quite time consuming but I think it gives a nice tight demarcation between the two colours with the end result being very little to no overspray between the two colours. No masks were used and it was done completely freehand.

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[Crimea_River]

Beautiful!

 

[Airframes]

I agree.

 

[le_steph40]

 

[Vic Balshaw]

It is good.

 

[zaxos345]

Great work so far

Cheers, John

 

[rochie]

very, very nice

 

[brucejscott]

Looking Great!

 

[Hotntot]

The engine does look slightly off centre - to the left and high a bit - as Airframes and Wayne Little obeserved - but hey, as they and everyone else has said, that's one hell of a finish you've got going there. Very good work indeed, particularily the sublety on the demarmarcation. I must practice that.

 

[Gnomey]

Looking good so far!

 

[Catch22]

Wonderful!

 

[Wayne Little]

That's a nice paint job, like the look of that..