**** DONE: 1/48 Corsair II - Pacific Theatre of Operations II

[Vic Balshaw]

Great as usual Andy and I shiver to think of that -35C while I feel the cold in +25C as was yesterday.

 

[Catch22]

Good work Andy, can't begin to understand how cold it is there, it's +35 degrees C here at the moment! I could sure use some of your ice.

Cheers

Peter

No Peter, no you can't use any of it.

Nice work Andy, the wingtips look great.

 

[dneid]

Lovely work there, Andy. That engine is wonderful. Now, MINUS 40?!!! No thank you.

 

[Wayne Little]

Stick your minus 40ish temps Guys...I'm staying right here thankyou...

Doing good there Andy!

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks everyone.

 

[rochie]

Nice progress Andy

 

[mikewint]

Got to -19C here last night, 4in(10cm) frozen sleet plus 2in(5cm) snow. I keep checking but the map says SOUTHERN U S

 

[Crimea_River]

This winter has been nuts, and it ain't over yet.

 

[Crimea_River]

A short update.

The cockpit consoles are nearing completion with all the various bits of PE added. Yes, the map case is incorrect for a FAA aircraft but I won't tell if you don't. However, I did add scratch built flare cartridges which seem to be unique to FAA Corsairs. These were actually stored in 2 rows of 4 but the second row would be hidden by the seat so I didn't bother.

Now, the seat has me thinking because the supporting frame, though mostly hidden, apparently doesn't accurately portray the real thing. I can live with the solid wedge shaped support, which should actually be a tubular frame, but what's bugging me is that the frame should also have an integral bar across the top for draping the shoulder belts and the frame, along with the seat, should be pushed forward. Here's a pic of the kit assembly.

....and here's a reference pic of an FG-1 seat:

...and a CADD pic of Tamiya's Birdcage Corsair:

As you can see these are different and I'm struggling a bit to figure out what my F4U-1A's should look like. So if anyone has a good reference for the seat detail I should use, I'd appreciate some guidance.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

No can help on the seat Andy, there is not one single reference on seats in all my books. I've a new one in the post, but it could be weeks yet.

Like the update though, there's some nice goings-on there.

 

[Crimea_River]

Cheers Vic. My only other reference pictures are in a Squadron Walkaround book and it has great pics of the same set up as the FG-1 sample above.

I also have this, which is more like the Birdcage seat:

 

[Catch22]

I'll have to get back to you later about the details for -1As, but avoid looking to closely at Birdcages as the back panel is different and some things were moved around once production got to the -1A.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Have gone over my pics again Andy and looking close at this one it looks like the FG-1 seat, framework tubes come to a stop almost level with the back of the seat, and looking at the side of the aircraft, we seem to be in the right air force, i.e. light blue roundel and white dot centre.

 

[dneid]

Nice work, Andy. Hope you get the seat questions sorted. Looks like the guys are all chiming in.

 

[fubar57]

Coming along great Andy, love the logo on the engine. I'll look through my books for a seat photo. For what it's worth, -37°C when I finished my tour yesterday morning.

Geo

 

[fubar57]

Sorry Andy, 16 books and no good seat photos, just one drawing...

Geo

 

[Catch22]

Good stuff Geo, but that last picture appears to be an RNZAF Corsair which were identical to US ones if you want to get really picky.

 

[Wurger]

I found this...

 

[Airframes]

Nice work Andy, and some good references from Geo and Wojtek.

 

[Gnomey]

Looks great so far Andy!