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Chance Vought F4U Corsair

Review: Magic Factory F4U Corsairs

The F4U Corsair was designed by Vought Aircraft in response to a 1938 BuAer RFP for a fleet defense fighter. The prototype appeared in 1940, the first fighter to be powered by the new Pratt & Whitney R-2800, 2,000 hp radial engine. In [...]

Review: First lookMagic Factory F4U-1A / F4U-2 Corsair

Photos to come later. This is first impressions: Most important: don't believe the voices over at Hyperscale. The kit is not unbuildably wrong - not as much as the usual critics are unreformable. The rivet pattern in the wings they are all [...]

Review: Magic Factory 1/48 F4U-1A/2 Corsair Review

1/48 Academy F4U-4 Corsair, Korean War

This kit is a very simple, easy-to-build, weekend kit. I finally had time to work on it after 7 months of no model-building. This is also my seventh kit so I'm still learning the trade. I know many people state that late model Navy [...]

Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1A Jim Sullivan memorial group build

Had a lot of fun with this one. Tried new things like using pastels on an aircraft fuselage for weathering, I had done exhausts just not the whole airframe before, cut out wing tip lenses and used clear sprue for new ones. I found the [...]

F4U-1D - Corsair - VF84

Dear Modellers, Here is my version of the 1/32 Corsair F4U-1D. It took me 10 months to build it. I spent a lot of time building the cockpit and engine. I used this time a lot of products from ANYZ and the belts are from HGW models. I used [...]

Tamiya Vought F4U-1A Corsair 1/48 scale.

I had built this quite a while ago but did not like the orange peel in the paint so I got rid of it and bought this one which took me about four days. Krylon matte midnight ink spray paint bought at Lowe’s. Supposedly the way they looked [...]

1/48 F4F-1D Corsair Jim Sullivan Group Build

I used the Tamiya kit to represent an FG-1D Corsair flown by LTC Donald K. Yost of VMF-351 aboard the USS Cape Gloucester, July-August, 1945. It's my contribution to the Jim Sullivan Group Build initiated by Louis Gardner, so thanks Louis [...]

Trumpeter Vought F4U-1D Corsair 1/32

Hello everyone. I'm back after a while for this new model. Again it is a Corsair but with markings and paint used by the British in the Pacific theater. The original kit is from Trumpeter which comes with good details and gave almost no [...]

Korean War F4U-4 Corsair Hasegawa Old Mould 1/48

A gift from a friend,the good old Hasegawa (Mania?) mould,finally finished after being retrieved from the 'as is' piles...