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T Bolt
Colonel
Added the wine foil seat harness as well as the weapon pylons including the scratch built center rack
**** DONE: GB-61 1/48 Vought AU-1 Corsair – Carrier and Maritime Aircraft
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Donivanp
Major
Nice belts. Great work.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Like the shoulder straps Glenn, beautiful work. 
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T Bolt
Colonel
The bomb saga continues,,,,,
As I said in post #78 I had decided to use 4 of the 250s I have on each wing along with a couple of somewhat larger bombs next to them on the inner most wing racks. There was no nore that 2 bombs made from the same kit Mfg. so the fuses were all different so I cut most of them off and replaced them with bits of brass rod.
The picture below shows that load-out.
I was never happy with these 500s and the 1000 as they scale out too big and the fin shape is just wrong, and the larger bomb on each outer wing just was not going to fit. I decided to replace the 5-250s on each wing with 3-500s.
I have a bunch of AMT P-40F bagged kits I picked up on ebay a while back and decided to raid them for the 500s. I opened the box I thought they were in but instead found a whole lot of extra kit bits including a whole lot of bombs! Included were 4 very nice 250s from an AMT A-20G, a 1000 pounder from the Academy P-47N kit and a couple of nice 500s from AMT P-40 kits. All these bombs scaled out right on and looked "right". I then raided another AMT A-20 kit I have in the stash for 4 more 250s.
So now I'm back to the 10 250s using the 8 from the A-20s and 2 of the best of the ones I already had.
Here's the load-out now with all the new bombs, although I still need to dress up the glue joints and change the fuses to brass.
And here is all the bombs I did all that work on that I will not be using now.
As I said in post #78 I had decided to use 4 of the 250s I have on each wing along with a couple of somewhat larger bombs next to them on the inner most wing racks. There was no nore that 2 bombs made from the same kit Mfg. so the fuses were all different so I cut most of them off and replaced them with bits of brass rod.
The picture below shows that load-out.
I was never happy with these 500s and the 1000 as they scale out too big and the fin shape is just wrong, and the larger bomb on each outer wing just was not going to fit. I decided to replace the 5-250s on each wing with 3-500s.
I have a bunch of AMT P-40F bagged kits I picked up on ebay a while back and decided to raid them for the 500s. I opened the box I thought they were in but instead found a whole lot of extra kit bits including a whole lot of bombs! Included were 4 very nice 250s from an AMT A-20G, a 1000 pounder from the Academy P-47N kit and a couple of nice 500s from AMT P-40 kits. All these bombs scaled out right on and looked "right". I then raided another AMT A-20 kit I have in the stash for 4 more 250s.
So now I'm back to the 10 250s using the 8 from the A-20s and 2 of the best of the ones I already had.
Here's the load-out now with all the new bombs, although I still need to dress up the glue joints and change the fuses to brass.
And here is all the bombs I did all that work on that I will not be using now.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
That is a good and well sorted selection Glenn. 
A4K
Brigadier General
With Vic. Glad that worked out Glenn.
Donivanp
Major
That looks like you have it under tow. Speaking of, that Corsair will need to be "under tow" with a load fit for an AD!
seems you have under control now Glenn...
Crimea_River
Marshal
More control than the pilot would have had!
Lovely work so far Glenn!
F-104nut
Staff Sergeant
Looiking great!
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T Bolt
Colonel
I started and finished the basic painting this weekend. Testors square bottle white & black ,and Model Master gull gray. Different looking Corsair.
Donivanp
Major
Nice Glenn, I always hated having to paint that scheme. White is not my friend.
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T Bolt
Colonel
It was kind of a pain Don, but I hate yellow a lot more. It took 4 light coats to cover the gray plastic.
Crimea_River
Marshal
ModelMaster - use sparingly so it lasts!
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T Bolt
Colonel
Saving every drop! I use a pipet to suck out everything left in the airbrush after spraying and return it to the bottle. It was un un-opened bottle of gull gray I used for this so I should get a few more builds out of it.
Crimea_River
Marshal
MM used to be my go-to paint til it disappeared. It was good stuff.
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N4521U
Colonel
More and more like a Jarhead Corsair!
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