It's finally finished!
It's finally finished!
Nothing in particular to add except that I followed the details of what I found online especially in reference to the nice article by Dave Hansen ( @davidhansen ) (https://forgottenhobby.wordpress.com/tag/vfn-101/ and https://imodeler.com/2017/06/a-corsair-for-bob/). The effect is completely different and certainly of lower quality... but for now I'm satisfied.
Furthermore I took some liberties, such as the ventral tank which is depicted as a recovery element still only with the primer... etc etc
Great looking Corsair David. Is that oils or an enamel wash you use for the white color for the panel lines?
Thanks @graemestreet !
I use Tamiya panel line and watercolor crayons. Generally I experiment because I'm never satisfied with the results... however on the upper surfaces I only used watercolour. I also have the oil and I have yet to use it on the white. White is my terror. Always. Next time I'll try the Alclad white that I recently got along with the three color set for the WWII scheme. I'll try it on one of the other 5 (!) Corsairs that I'm "slowly" making...
Time. What a tyrant!
Fantastic Corsair, Davide!
Congratulations!
🙂 Grazie mille Spiros! @fiveten.
Your are so generous...
Excellent Corsair!
thanks!
Great F4U-2 David. I built my interpretation or this same aircraft (#10) VFN-101, using the Tamiya kit. It's nice to see someone else's take on it, especially since there isn't a lot of good detail photos of -2 Corsairs out there. Outstanding job!
A thousand thanks Clit @curtisshawk !
in fact, my interpretation is rather "free". Probably, as some friends told me, these planes were much less "scraped" as they were subjected to constant maintenance... however next time I will try to do better. I have a lot to do!
Looks great to me! On mine I went overboard on the fuel leaks from around the main tank. So we're in the same boat, I'll do better next time too.😉 if your interested it on my page, take a look if you like.
Hi Clint @curtisshawk ! I saw your 1/32 F4U-2. Is fantastic! and all the documentation to which I also partly referred is very clear.
You managed to render the antenna wire very well, unlike me who was unable to render it at its best. At 1/48 scale I still don't know how to make the eyebolts properly...
In my opinion, the rendering of the fuel came out very well... and more: the color is probably much more vivid the way you did it than the way I made it, even the paneling in mine is probably exaggerated.
Overall, yours actually looks a lot more like the real Corsair...!
Congratulations and see you next time!
Wow, this is an impressive result, Davide @dapo68
Considering this is 1/48, you have done some excellent detailing.
I think I was lucky with this new kit which is a Tamiya 1/32 "reduced" (almost...)... however coming from you it's a really nice compliment. Thank you!
A lot of nice work went into that build! Looks great - well done!
Thank you Greg @gkittinger !
your compliments encourage me... but as I was saying there are several free interpretations and errors that I have no longer been able to correct. Sure the kit is fantastic and you can get a masterpiece with the right "hands"
Excellent build with amazing details for an 1/48 scale kit. For a moment I thought I was looking at an 1/32!
My compliments on this beautiful piece of work, Davide!
@dapo68
Thank you very much @alfred ! I have to say that I like it even if there are some errors that I should have corrected... The Magic Factory kit is really fantastic and helps a lot that I bought three boxes of it. I have to do 5 more!
G'day Davide (@dapo68),
Your build looks great.
I picked up one of these kits and hope to get to them later this year.
A question I have about the F4U-2 is the instrument panel. As far I can tell, the kit part and decal are for a standard F4U birdcage where as the F4U-2 is said to have had the radar scope just below the gunsight and the other instruments rearranged. I haven't been able to find out what the instrument arrangement was.
I'm not sure if you bothered with that.
The panel line highlights on the dark blue are an interesting touch. I will have to look into that.
Liked!
Thank you Michael @michaelt !
I'm not sure I know the answer...
I took a detail set of the "Quinta Studio" for the two F4U-2s that I intended to make... I took another one from Eduard because I bought a third box (...) ... I'll post the details later detailed photos of the panels and you will be able to evaluate...
thank you again!