Minicraft F4U-5N 1/48?

[Lucky13]

Does anyone know what it's like?

 

[Donivanp]

Plastic. I had one but never built it. Mostly Hasegawa knock off as I recall.

 

[Wurger]

It is the first and oldest kit for the Corsair variant released by the Academy Minicrfat in 1997. For sure, nothing in common with the nice Hasegawa kit. See here ...

Building the Mincraft F4U-5N Pointless Perseverance?

the pic source: the net.

These two are the re-edition of the kit ..

 

[Wurger]

 

[MIflyer]

I built one of those. Here is picture of it.

Or it might be a real one in Korea. My models are so good that it is very hard to tell.

 

[Davecww1]

Beware of any of the Academy/Minicraft Corsair kits, hard to tell from looking at pictures of the kit parts (although you can tell by looking at the canopy in the video) the fuselage is way too wide at the mid point, therefore the canopy appear bulbous, take a close look at the windshield in the video, then look at the Tamiya or hasegawa one to see just how badly misshaped they are.
Dave

 

[MIflyer]

I have IDEA copies of the Monogram 1/48 F4U-4 and Monogram 1/48 Ju87G. In both cases the kits seemed to be exact copies of the Monogram, down to interchangeable parts. But the clear canopies are a mess. I think that they used a laser scanner to create duplicate molds but that did not work with the clear parts. They should have painted the Monogram clear parts opaque before the scanning but apparently did not think to do that.