F6F-5 & F4U-1D in 1/32 Scale

[DarrenW]

I finally finished these two models recently as I was building them side by side since February. Both are out of the box and I included all the options that were available, as limited as they were. I performed zero modifications and didn't add any additional details, as tempting as it was. Did it old school so to speak. Both aircraft have generic markings as I didn't want to represent any particular unit with each. I plan to do that with all the kits I will be making in the future too.

The Hellcat is Hasagawa while the Corsair is the venerable Revell kit. I chose to leave the extra canopy frame work and the thinner blade propeller on the F4U-1D to represent and early production type.

Next up is the old Revell bubble top P-47D in 1/32 scale...

 

[fubar57]

Very nice Darren

 

[Wurger]

Agree.

 

[Crimea_River]

Nicely done.

 

[Gnomey]

Good work!

 

[DarrenW]

Thanks guys I appreciate all the positive feedback!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Very nice and I like the way you can remove the engine cowling to display the engine.

 

[DarrenW]

Very nice and I like the way you can remove the engine cowling to display the engine.

Thanks Vic. I tried hard to make them as accurate as possible without any scratch building. Because both kits had the option to remove the cowling and display the engine I thought it would be a waste not to take advantage of it.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Cool brother.

 

[Airframes]

Nice !

 

[Mgunns]

I finally finished these two models recently as I was building them side by side since February. Both are out of the box and I included all the options that were available, as limited as they were. I performed zero modifications and didn't add any additional details, as tempting as it was. Did it old school so to speak. Both aircraft have generic markings as I didn't want to represent any particular unit with each. I plan to do that with all the kits I will be making in the future too.

The Hellcat is Hasagawa while the Corsair is the venerable Revell kit. I chose to leave the extra canopy frame work and the thinner blade propeller on the F4U-1D to represent and early production type.

Next up is the old Revell bubble top P-47D in 1/32 scale...

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Nice job on both models. The old Hasegawa F6F still holds up well. The Revell kit, has the right shape, some detail issues, but still makes up a nice model.

 

[DarrenW]

Nice job on both models. The old Hasegawa F6F still holds up well. The Revell kit, has the right shape, some detail issues, but still makes up a nice model.

Thanks. I was extremely careful about getting everything correct as possible without modification and I learned a lot about the subtle details of each aircraft that normally get overlooked by enthusiasts.