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Post by wbill76 on Apr 12, 2016 10:53:55 GMT -5
Courtesy of my lovely wife, I get to spread my wings a little and do something different! This project will feature Tamiya's lovely 1/48 Vought F4U-1A Corsair with some Eduard PE and masks to help things along.  |
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Post by JimD on Apr 12, 2016 10:55:09 GMT -5
That's an airplane...you know this right? Haha.
This is a nice little kit. Look forward to it.
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Post by jsteinman on Apr 12, 2016 11:02:50 GMT -5
Oh I have this kit - gonna be watching super close like...
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Post by wouter on Apr 12, 2016 11:21:20 GMT -5
Nice one, the Corsair is so ugly it becomes a beauty. Such a sturdy plane. Looking forward to this!
Cheers
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Post by Tojo72 on Apr 12, 2016 11:33:11 GMT -5
Probably my favorite aircraft.  Looking forward to your treatment Bill |
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Post by wbill76 on Apr 12, 2016 11:41:55 GMT -5
Jimmy, I know...it's weird, no tracks!  John, it seems to be a very popular kit, everything I've read on it says it builds up nice and smooth. We'll see! Wouts, glad to have you on board. You're right about it's 'unique' look and durability. Anthony, mine too! All because of the Black Sheep Squadron TV show.
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Post by dierk on Apr 12, 2016 12:18:31 GMT -5
No tracks, looks like if fell out of the ugly tree...what the hell - if Bill's building it, I'll watch.  |
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Post by wing_nut on Apr 12, 2016 12:51:33 GMT -5
I just ordered this kit with a gift certificate I won at MosquitoCon. I'll be watching.
Just checked the tracking and it's out for delivery today.
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Post by martslay on Apr 12, 2016 13:10:41 GMT -5
I waited for this moment. Good luck Bill!
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Post by JimD on Apr 12, 2016 13:11:06 GMT -5
Nice one, the Corsair is so ugly it becomes a beauty. Such a sturdy plane. Looking forward to this! Cheers I'm just going to pretend I didn't read that. |
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Post by wbill76 on Apr 12, 2016 15:21:27 GMT -5
Dierk, glad to have you along! Will give you a break from staring at green for a bit. Marc, sounds like you're back to your old ways! Always copying me...  Martin, thanks, pull up a chair!  I had my choice of starting with the cockpit in Step 1 or starting on the engine in Step 2...so I picked the engine as it just called to me a little louder I guess! The two banks of cylinders are separate parts with the crankcase hub on the front as a third component. That made detailing and painting life pretty easy. I handpainted the cylinders with MM Non-Buffing Metalizer Gunmetal and lightly dry-brushed them with MM enamel Steel to bring out their detail. The cylinder heads were painted with the same Steel and the Eduard PE set provided the ignition wires as a single spider-like piece that slid in underneath the crankcase part. A medium gray mix I keep on hand from a previous build supplied the primer color for the crankcase and Non-Buffing Metalizer Steel picked out the ignition harness. Considering the whole engine is roughly the same diameter as a quarter, it's got a lot of detail IMHO.  The engine installs to a firewall that has the exhaust pipe details on the rear face with the option to have the cowl flaps open or closed, so I went for open since there's detail there to fill the space. Non-buffing Metalizer Gunmetal as the basecoat here with successive washes of thinned MM enamel Leather to build up their rusty/grimy look. 95% of this gets hidden away, but that 5% that stays visible is a nice detail.  I needed to mix up some Yellow Chromate, so I created my own home-brew combination of MM enamel Gelb RLM 04 and Medium Field Green. It didn't take a lot of the green to do the trick, but don't ask me for the exact ratio...I just tinkered with it until it looked right to my eye. A little bit of the Green went a long way for sure! The new color was hand brushed inside the cowl and flaps in careful coats to build it up so it would cover the underlying gray plastic adequately.   The engine was added to the firewall base first. This is a tight friction fit, so once it was done there was no going back. The full engine and firewall combo was then joined to the cowl flaps since the cowl itself mounts directly to the cowl flaps rim.  Cowl was added next and a quick test fit with the fuselage done to make sure everything was playing nice and lining up correctly.   The prop installs using a polycap trapped inside the crankcase, so that will make life easy in terms of painting and what not as well as installing the prop when the time comes later on.
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Post by wing_nut on Apr 12, 2016 15:57:42 GMT -5
Marc, sounds like you're back to your old ways! Always copying me... Well, yes... maybe. The gift certificate used to purchase was won on 4/2 and the kit ordered 4/7. Any of that before you so I can say I am not copying?
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Post by wbill76 on Apr 12, 2016 16:07:13 GMT -5
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Post by wing_nut on Apr 12, 2016 16:08:22 GMT -5
Well just crap then.  I guess I'm copying you. |
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Post by wbill76 on Apr 12, 2016 16:11:35 GMT -5
Well just crap then. I guess I'm copying you. It's bound to happen...I mean you are wing_nut...now if it were a tank, that would be more blatant. |
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Post by wing_nut on Apr 12, 2016 16:45:35 GMT -5
You could always do a little tit for tat and do an airliner ya know.  Your progress look great. Engine is nicely done. Oh, and I will NOT be doing to this engine what I did to the 1/32 Corsair engine  |
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Post by wbill76 on Apr 12, 2016 16:56:16 GMT -5
You could always do a little tit for tat and do an airliner ya know. Your progress look great. Engine is nicely done. Oh, and I will NOT be doing to this engine what I did to the 1/32 Corsair engine I can't blame you there, the engine in 1/48 is nicely detailed but much smaller than it's 1/32 cousin! |
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Post by bbrowniii on Apr 12, 2016 16:57:49 GMT -5
Mmmmmmm.... Corsairs.... I'm in!
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Post by Leon on Apr 12, 2016 18:08:43 GMT -5
Pulling up a chair Bill! Engine looks good. |
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Post by wbill76 on Apr 12, 2016 18:23:54 GMT -5
Thanks Boyd and Leon!
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Post by deafpanzer on Apr 12, 2016 21:26:24 GMT -5
Oh man, I am so glad you are really OK. I was worried about you doing two armors in a row. Often I was tempted to buy this kit at the shows but you know my situation I don't need more kits!
Great start on the engine!
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Post by wbill76 on Apr 12, 2016 21:30:24 GMT -5
Thanks Andy. With this and the Olympia, it will be a while before I get back to an armor project.
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Post by deafpanzer on Apr 12, 2016 21:35:17 GMT -5
Don't forget about sic-fi too!
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Post by wouter on Apr 13, 2016 5:00:19 GMT -5
Nice start on the engine Bill. And paintwork already ey Looking good! I must say I have used those ModelMasters once and quite like them. Was trying to score one for the ship (they got IJN Kure Grey) but impossible to obtain in Europe and won't be shipped from abroad. Will find a solution though. Cheers |
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Post by wbill76 on Apr 13, 2016 7:09:04 GMT -5
Nice start on the engine Bill. And paintwork already ey Looking good! I must say I have used those ModelMasters once and quite like them. Was trying to score one for the ship (they got IJN Kure Grey) but impossible to obtain in Europe and won't be shipped from abroad. Will find a solution though. Cheers Thanks Wouts! That's the interesting thing about aircraft. More build, paint, build, paint steps vs a tank! I agree on the MM stuff. It's my go-to brand since I work in enamels. Check out White Ensign, they are in the UK and might have what you need? |
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Post by wouter on Apr 13, 2016 7:31:09 GMT -5
Thanks for the tip Bill. Though it seems they are California based now I found a UK based company which produce the Kure Grey in enamel too called Sovereign hobbies. Because of regulations they don't ship to European mainland either, however, I found that L'Arsenal sell them too. Hope it's more or less the same shade as the Tamiya one. I plan to add the railings later on as you did in your Texas build so the enamel will come in handy. I agree with you on that airplane part, pitty they take up so much space though LOL Cheers |
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Post by dierk on Apr 13, 2016 9:00:10 GMT -5
Nice start on the engine Bill. And paintwork already ey Looking good! I must say I have used those ModelMasters once and quite like them. Was trying to score one for the ship (they got IJN Kure Grey) but impossible to obtain in Europe and won't be shipped from abroad. Will find a solution though. Cheers I'm surprised you haven't spotted this Wouter  Nice work on the wingy Bill! |
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Post by wouter on Apr 13, 2016 9:14:52 GMT -5
Nice start on the engine Bill. And paintwork already ey Looking good! I must say I have used those ModelMasters once and quite like them. Was trying to score one for the ship (they got IJN Kure Grey) but impossible to obtain in Europe and won't be shipped from abroad. Will find a solution though. Cheers I'm surprised you haven't spotted this Wouter Nice work on the wingy Bill! That's the shop where I pretty much buy all my modelling related stuff. They do have ModelMaster paints, but not the naval line which I needed Cheers |
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Post by jsteinman on Apr 13, 2016 9:19:05 GMT -5
Motor on?
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Post by wbill76 on Apr 13, 2016 12:07:25 GMT -5
Thanks Dierk and John!
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I guess I'm copying you.
