F4U-1A Corsair- 9/30 - DONE!

[dupes]

Benching it? But it was just starting to look goooooood!

[aeroaustin]

Aws-fricking-ome! :-)

[doogsatx/]

VERY INTERESTING.

I love and hate this kind of detective work.

I guess the major question is - what was the reason for this paint scheme? Was it joining two aircraft together (seems like a ton of work)? A repaint with limited paint stocks on hand?

[wbill76]

Glad to hear it's only a temporary benching...will be waiting patiently for it to resume its place once you've fulfilled those other obligations Marc! Things like this are always fascinating, the more you dig, the more questions you get vs. answers. One more example of where it's hard to say 'this NEVER' or 'this ALWAYS' happened type of thing.

[doogsatx/]

Jun 3, 2015 14:00:01 GMT -5 wbill76 said:

Things like this are always fascinating, the more you dig, the more questions you get vs. answers. One more example of where it's hard to say 'this NEVER' or 'this ALWAYS' happened type of thing.

ESPECIALLY with the Corsair. Seems there's an exception for every exception.

[bbrowniii]

Marc

Those pics are fascinating. Part of me looks at the pics and is convinced they HAVE to be different planes, but then you've got the number clear as day on the rudder. So many possibilities... maybe the top pic is earlier and, after that bird was lost, they scrounged the rudder and put it on your bird...?

Or one guys was painting the one side and another guy was painting the other and it came out like that funny pic that makes the rounds online of the two sections of a bridge that are offset by about four feet?

wonderfulengineering.com/10-calculation-errors-that-proved-to-be-disastrous/

As to the demarcation line, I think it is, as you said, a lighting thing. I'm not sure if it is simply not there (which would seem odd) and the darker color on the vertical stabilizer is from a shadow, or if it is washed out because of some direct sunlight and the rudder is at a slight enough angle to be shaded?

Either way, it is a really interesting set of pictures.

Love what you've done so far. Hate to see it benched.... hope it isn't there for too long.

[wing_nut]

Jeez that bridge pic can't be real. Can it?

It won't be benched too long. Had to make a fix just today. I like to put stuff on the sweater rack in the clothes dryer to speed dry paint. Works a treat to until you forget to turn down the heat real far for the thin plastic bits. I melted, then broke, the forward mast. about 30 minutes of scraping and sanding to make a new one.

[JimD]

Wait a minute...you're telling me you put models in the dryer?

[wing_nut]

Yup all the time bro. The sweater/sneaker rack hold it safely in he middle the drum. In 99.99% of the cases the lowest setting is great for turning hours long drying time to minutes. No harm comes it. Unless, as I said, you forget to the heat off for the really thin and tiny bits.   This is not a dryer I got at the same place as my giant penny.  That's  a 144th Fw190




No, this is not the prop for Snidely Whiplash's private plane. Well... it is now.





Scrapin', scrubbin' and chippin'. See Boyd... I said you wouldn't have to wait too long.    I was disappointed when I realized there wasn't ant chromate showing through. Beside the fact that was the "look" I wanted it would have added a nice little bit of color. I have to go back and look at the steps doogs took. I'm going to guess I missed a sealer coat on the chromate before the next layer of hairspray went down for the sea blue.

Did the sea blue Corsairs have the black wing walks?  Or a sometimes yes and sometimes no?

[wbill76]

Well that has to be the shortest benching in recent memory! And I have to laugh at the Whiplash propeller.

[wing_nut]

Well that has to be the shortest benching in recent memory!

Yeah tell me about it

[aeroaustin]

Jun 4, 2015 7:08:26 GMT -5 wing_nut said:

This picture remind me of cartoon with big mustache, I can't figure which the cartoon show. I can't pin one of show..  I laughed when I saw this picture think of cartoon...

[JimD]

Can I ask what kind of paint you use that you find it necessary to dry like that? I know I skirt conventional wisdom and all but even with enamel I feel safe to mask in 24 hours and overspray with a clear in 48.

I'll mask lacquer within 1 hour. I usually won't coat it for at least 24.

I'm just curious. I'm working a lot with enamels right now on some "work" projects and wouldn't mind speeding things up there. That's for sure.

[wing_nut]

I laughed when I saw this picture think of cartoon

Glad you had a good laugh. I didn't when it happened but I do now.


I have not used enamels for a long time but when i did this was a HUGE time saver them. Fully cured in 15-20 minutes? No. But pretty way closer to what you are waiting a day for. I use mostly Tamiya acrylics now and they dry pretty fast. If you've ever noticed though even with those paint... it's dry to the touch but if you were to touch with the back of your hand is has that cool, under the surface damp feel to it. Best description i can think of. 5-10 minutes In the dryer and it's like it's been on the bench all night.I mostly use a hair dryer now but still use the dryer now and again. test the heat setting on a clunker 1st. I've used the dryer for decals too but not when I need them to really settle over details.

[JimD]

I know exactly what you're talking about with Tamiya paints. I thin the enamel with lacquer thinner. I'm pretty sure it speeds drying. I don't know for sure. When I started using them that's what I thinned with. I've never sprayed them with regular enamel thinner. I do sometimes hit it with a hair dryer. I may try this idea though. Learn something new every day.

[Deleted]

I always put mine in a food dehydrator for drying.  I took the individual layers of racks and cut the webbing out of them (except 1).  So I can put something on the bottom and then on another layer.

[doogsatx/]

I would be terrified of lint...

[wing_nut]

Jun 5, 2015 12:17:19 GMT -5 @bluenosers352nd said:

I always put mine in a food dehydrator for drying.  I took the individual layers of racks and cut the webbing out of them (except 1).  So I can put something on the bottom and then on another layer.

That's good idea too.

Jun 5, 2015 12:20:35 GMT -5 doogsatx/ said:

I would be terrified of lint...

You would think that would be a problem but never a speck of lint.

[JimD]

Jun 5, 2015 12:20:35 GMT -5 doogsatx/ said:

I would be terrified of lint...

I don't think you're supposed to put your socks in with the model

[wing_nut]

After some discussion and a recommendation to take the contrast down on the back of the fuselage I repainted the back half. I was pointed to a beautiful build of this aircraft and the builder mentioned the back half being an early 1A. With that in mind I went looking for other NZ Corsair I noticed they didn't have that stark contrast I had. The bone yard photo started to make sense. This is what I got and I like it much better.

Another sharp eyed guy noticed that in the bone yard photo this plane has a welded steel tail wheel extension. It extended the tail wheel 6 inches lowering the thrust line 11.5 degrees to improve the pilots view on the ground. Goodyear made about 1000 of these while the forged extensions where being made I am going to scratch one for the tail wheel. He sent me a scan of what it looked like. Is it against copyright rules or something like that to post the photo?

[Leon]

Nice work on the paint redo Marc! I like it.

[deafpanzer]

Really like what you have done so far and I can't wait to see more... catching up here!

[aeroaustin]

Much better, keep going, more picture!!

[wing_nut]

Thanks Leon, it does look better.


Really like what you have done so far and I can't wait to see more... catching up here!

Well thank you sir. It's polite to say thanks. You should however go to the introductions area and introduce yourself to the community. How did you that ID? there was a guy here that used to use that name. I thought that ID was retired, like Mickey Mantle's number.


Thanks aero. No worries, more pics on the way.

[wing_nut]

1st time using Xtradecals. Won't be the last. They are "How are you not falling apart?" thin. The only problem I had was I used the wrong decal solution under the wings. The instructions says to wet the model with Micro Set, smooth out the decal, wait 5 minutes and apply Micro Sol. Under the wings I mixed them up and they starting to stick in place before i was done positioning.

[Leon]

Markings look fantastic Marc! They really stand out nicely against the base colors.

[aeroaustin]

WOW....

[sabre]

Nice work there wing-nut, love the paint scheme.

[JimD]

Wow man. You sure did pick one heck of a cool looking airplane. The markings just set it off...someone call the police cuz that's da bomb.

[wbill76]

Now that's really turning into an eye-catcher for sure! Very nice update Marc.